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The Pac Man Guitar
2007-11-14 06:32:00 The Pac Man guitar was made in 1998 at the request of Dave “Timely” Winer of the Howards and the Baltimores. It’s one of a number of extremely interesting and beautiful instruments made by Specimen Products. A variable-speed knob is located on the eyeball so you can synchronize the blinker to the beat. There ... More About: Guitar , Electric Guitars
Lead guitar videos revisited
2007-11-13 12:41:00 I was sorting out a file with some old links on it, and I found a Youtube video from Dan Denley’s Lead Guitar Secrets so I thought I may as well mention it again. After all the hype with the launch it has proved to be popular with guitar students as are all of ... More About: Videos , Lead Guitar
Jerry Reed - superstar and good guitar player
2007-11-12 13:14:00 Jerry Reed Hubbard (born March 20, 1937) is an American country music singer, country guitarist, songwriter, and actor. He has appeared in over a dozen films. As a singer, he may be best remembered for his novelty song “When You’re Hot, You’re Hot” for which he received the Grammy Award for Best Male Country ... More About: Guitar , Player , Superstar , Good
Video guitar lesson on improvising
2007-11-11 11:10:00 Justin’s free video guitar lessons are great value. Here is a five minute video on improvising the blues. “Lesson 15 starts your improvising with a 12 Bar Blues solo using the minor pentatonic scale. It’s part of a complete video beginners guitar course that has all notes available for free from www.justinguitar.com. Just click on ... More About: Video , Guitar , Improv
For beginners on guitar - learning tabs and chords
2007-11-09 12:16:00 Here’s a course of free guitar lessons and a tablature tutorial from about.com: “Beginner Guitar Lesson Archive The following free guitar lessons have been created with the beginner in mind. It is suggested that new guitarists begin at lesson one, spending at least one week learning the exercises and songs in that lesson before moving on. ... More About: Chords , Tabs , Learning , Earning
The secret of mastering lead guitar
2007-11-08 11:46:00 If you are the lead guitarist in a band, you take your place as a part of a group. You support and are supported by the rhythm gutiarist, keyboards player, bassist and drummer. Until the solo. Then it’s your moment of glory! Wind back in time to . . . er, now, I guess. ... More About: Guitar , The Secret , Secret , Lead , Lead Guitar
Learn fingerstyle guitar
2007-11-07 10:32:00 Here’s two free guitar lessons featuring some nice chords and fingerstyle guitar techniques. When you follow the links you’ll be asked to register for the forum. It’s free. Tiptoe Through The Blues “Unless you picked up the guitar yesterday, you should be able to handle this one. It’s another example of how a bass lines and ... More About: Guitar , Learn
Guitar Lesson Video
2007-11-06 11:58:00 Once apon a time, long, long ago men and women used to learn to play guitar from books or, if were lucky, a guitar teacher. Books could supply us with the information we needed like what the note symbols meant and what a major key is, and a teacher could guide us, explaining things ... More About: Video , Guitar , Lesson
Basic Guitar Chords And How To Play Them
2007-11-05 08:51:00 One of the challenges for the learner guitarist is learning the basic guitar chords. You will not only need to know where to put your fingers, but also how to change from one chord to another. The technique of smooth transition between chords is a learning process which we are never really finished with. ... More About: Guitar , Play , Chords , Basic , Chord
The Electric Guitar And Its Place In Musical History
2007-11-04 11:43:00 References to the guitar more or less in its modern form date back to the 14th century. It had four courses of double strings and a rounded body like a gourd or a pumpkin. Around the sixteenth century the guitar was a popular musical instrument amongst the middle and lower classes of Europe, and as ... More About: History , Musical , Guitar , Place , Electric
Electric Guitar Tabs Explained
2007-11-01 11:47:00 Tablature is not a dumbed down version of “real” musical notation. It has been a real help to the many people who have taken up the electric guitar and who wanted to get down to the business of playing as quickly as possible. Tablature as a means of writing music down has been with us for hundreds of years, but many people today look down on tabs as a third rate method of musical communication. Conventional music notation has much more to communicate than tabs, but if you already know more or less how the song sounds, and are prepared to work at your own interpretation, then there’s nothing wrong with using tablature. Guitar ists contributing their tabs to websites have brought a wider range of music within reach of amateur musicians who never learnt musical notation. Electric guitar tablature introduces an amateur guitar player to a range of music without asking him to learn musical theory that he may feel he can do without. Tablature allows the guitarist to get to... More About: Tabs , Electric Guitar
Your First Electric Guitar Pack
2007-10-31 10:08:00 When you imagine yourself as a guitar player you probably think of the electric guitar. It looks really cool posing with one and they make great sounds. But is it so cool you want to spend days investigating which is the best guitar for a beginner, where to get the best price, what amp to start with, what ancillary stuff you need? Or is it better to get that over with so you can concentrate on playing? Let’s embark on a journey that will take us flying over the desert of dreary comparison shopping to the grassy meadows of power chords and adoring chicks. Okay, we are putting together a pack of necessities for the beginner electric guitar player. Your local guitar mart is packed with snazzy looking axes that may or may not love you back when you start caressing their strings, all at varying price ranges. How can a novice figure out which brands are best for which price? Your Guitar Okay, grab an electric guitar and look at how it’s made. It is, after all a piece of electr... More About: Electric , Electric Guitar , Pack
Tommy Emmanuel
2007-10-30 11:33:00 While Tommy Emmanuel has never had formal music training, his natural musicianship and prodigious playing ability has won him fans from all over the world. As well as being a guitar master, he’s also a professional percussionist, and has been known to play percussion parts on the body of his guitar. 1994 saw Tommy as a member of the John Farnham Band. Australian music veteran John Farnham invited him to play guitar next to Stuart Fraser from Noiseworks for the Concert For Rwanda. In July 1999, at the 15th Annual Chet Atkins Appreciation Society Convention, Chet presented Tommy with a Certified Guitar Player award, an honour bestowed on only two other guitarists (besides Atkins himself) - “In Recognition Of His Contributions To The Art Of Fingerpicking”. Tommy Emmanuel Totally Explained Technorati Tags: Tommy Emmanuel, John Farnham, Noiseworks, Chet Atkins More About: Manuel
Mistakes happen when you play guitar
2007-10-29 11:11:00 Beginner guitar players are often devastated by mistakes. Here’s some quotes from seasoned guitarists on how you can learn from your mistakes: “The worst reason I sucked was because I twisted in my lazy own ethic with a rock ethic that had been established by Bob Dylan. The Dylan ethic placed songwriting high above all ... More About: Guitar , Play , Stakes , Mista
Electric Guitar For Beginners
2007-10-28 02:20:00 Electric guitars have made their home in our universe. There are even classical pieces composed for electric guitar. This is a new kind of musical instrument. Not only is the sound amplified by electronics but the sound itself is MADE by electronics. Soooo . . . is playing electric guitar as easy as it ... More About: Guitar , Electric , Electric Guitar , Electric Guitars
How To Change Electric Guitar Strings
2007-10-26 13:49:00 Beginning guitar players experience problems changing electric guitar strings, so to lessen the pain, here’s a guide to the string-changing process. But first you need to give some attention to your strings during their life on the guitar. On electric guitars, you will find the first three strings are plain wire, and the other strings ... More About: Guitar , Change , Electric , Electric Guitar , Strings
Free Beginner Guitar Lessons
2007-10-25 14:17:00 Free Guitar Videos has beginner guitar lessons by Peter Vogl and Jody Worrell. They have free lessons that are generally 5-10 minute Quicktime videos that cover specific techniques and ideas. They also have a variety of beginner books and DVDs. The premium downloads are generally around 20 minutes and take a more in depth ... More About: Free , Beginner , Lessons , Guitar Lessons
Electric Guitar Lessons Revisited
2007-10-24 10:45:00 Do you have an electric guitar under your bed silently reminding you of a dream which is at the moment, buried. Did you dream of fame and female attention or was your dream about the music? Maybe you even spent a little too much money on your first electric guitar, hoping it would somehow ... More About: Guitar , Electric , Electric Guitar , Lessons , Electric Guitars
John Fogerty - Creedence Clearwater Revival
2007-10-23 13:44:00 Many people are not aware that Creedence Clearwater Revival performed at Woodstock in August 1969. They were the first band to be signed, but John Fogerty was unhappy with some technical problems that occurred with the sound during their set, so he wouldn’t give permission for any portion of their performance to be included ... More About: Guitar Heroes , Creedence Clearwater Revival
Learn all of the notes on the fretboard
2007-10-22 09:48:00 Can you play all guitar scales in all keys in any position on the fretboard? If you’ve taken online guitar lessons before, you’ve probably learnt the basic shapes and scales, but this lesson is designed to help you learn it all: “Most guitar players are victims of their own quick-fix mentality. ?Why learn every ... More About: Notes , Scales , Learn
Guitar scales at Chordbook.com
2007-10-21 13:37:00 This site features a flash modelled guitar and chordbook with over 1300 guitar chords and inversions. See and hear the chords you select. The virtual guitar behaves just like a normal guitar, Put on a capo to change the pitch, drag and drop the finger markers to make your own custom chords. Choose from electric ... More About: Guitar , Scales , Chord
How to set up a guitar
2007-10-19 13:04:00 Bookmark or print this page because it is essential info for beginner guitarists. Here’s an excerpt: “The techniques I have described are only one way of doing things; there is no one right method, though some methods are quicker and easier than others. What is more important than rigidly adhering to a set of techniques is to understand ... More About: Guitar
Tuning your twelve-string guitar
2007-10-17 03:16:00 Today we tackle 12-string guitar tuning. The modern twelve string guitar appeared in The United States at the end of the nineteenth century. Nobody knows who first got the idea of making a guitar with double courses of strings. Some guitar historians see the twelve string as an extension of the long tradition of ... More About: Guitar , Tuning , String , Twelve , Tring
Fascinating guitar stuff
2007-10-16 11:56:00 Clapton: The Autobiography Canoe Jam has an interesting article about Eric Clapton’s autobiography. “He also delves into his romance with Pattie Boyd, who wound up with Clapton after her split with Beatle George Harrison. Their star-crossed affair made her the muse for some of Clapton’s most memorable songs, including “Layla” and “Wonderful Tonight,” before the romance ... More About: Guitar , Stuff
Classical guitar links
2007-10-14 02:08:00 Not everybody is into music that requires tons of equipment, loud noise and sympathetic friends, so today we feature a classical guitar video and a link to a new blog devoted to classical music played on the guitar. Here’s a video of Julian Bream playing a fantastic piece originally written for an ancestor of the ... More About: Guitar , Links , Classical , Classical Guitar
Eddie Van Halen Tapping Technique
2007-10-12 04:50:00 Some interesting info on Van Halen from The Lead Guitarist: Van Halen has claimed he developed his signature tapping approach after studying the guitar solo from the Led Zeppelin song ?Heartbreaker? (played by Jimmy Page). Although Van Halen popularized the approach, he did not, despite popular belief, invent this technique; Steve Hackett from the group Genesis ... More About: Technique , Eddie , Eddie Van Halen , Guitar Heroes
Guitar scale patterns
2007-10-11 14:04:00 Today we take another peek at Guitar Dreams, a site with a wealth of guitar riches. “Scale Patterns and Sequences My guitar lessons as of late have not exactly been digestable in one sitting. So I decided to tone things down a bit and go over a simple concept which can be used as a building ...
Determination wins out!
2007-10-10 03:32:00 Whenever you’re feeling your guitar playing is going nowhere, play this video: And while we’re on Youtube video, this service allows you to convert a Flash Video / FLV file (YouTube’s videos,etc) to MPEG4 (AVI/MOV/MP4/MP3/3GP) file online. It is using a compressed domain transcoder technology. It converts FLV to MPEG4 faster and less lossy than ... More About: Wins , Term , Mina
Reviews of big-name guitar lessons
2007-10-09 08:16:00 Do you REALLY want to learn to play a guitar? We have a bunch of free guitar lessons and other resources for beginner guitarists here, but I thought I should give you a link to reviews of the guitar lesson courses that are asking for a bunch of money up front. If you’ve already tried learning with a real live teacher you’ll know that these courses are nowhere near as expensive as face-to-face lessons. Anyway whether you’re a beginner or a more seasoned student, here’s your chance to see what the big name guitar courses offer for your money. BigLemonReviews put together a review team of professional guitar instructors, intermediate players, and absolute beginners. They went through all of the top-selling guitar courses, plus some others that were recommended by guitar teachers. So here are the guitar lesson reviews Technorati Tags: free guitar lessons, beginner guitarists, guitar lesson courses, top-selling guitar courses More About: Guitar , Lessons , Guitar Lessons
Links to managing online music
More articles from this author:2007-10-08 02:44:00 Here’s a couple of links to online music sites to help you organise your music and find other musicians to jam with: On-Demand access to your music Remotely access, manage, and interact with your entire music library stored at home through any web browser. To start streaming music, you need to download the “Maestro Connector” and ... More About: Music , Free Stuff , Links , Online , Online music 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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