Evil Spud Boy

Month: February 2006

  • The Secret of Tuning Your Guitar

    If you struggle with tuning your guitar, the difficulty may be with your head and not your ears. In this article I talk about the thought process you should take when tuning your guitar, so that you can breakthrough that wall and eventually learn to tune like an expert.

  • Guitar Lessons: Musical Expression Starts from Within

    All those scales, chords and hours of practice are just to provide you with the tool you need for self expression. My musical journey will never end, but my ability to explore is now at warp speed.

  • Guitar Can Be Dangerous

    When you play guitar, always take proper precautions or you may suffer the fate that this person did. read more | digg story [ad#ad-4]

  • Ammo Box Amps

    Here’s an interesting item I found on digg: Looking for a better guitar amp? So were we… Enter the original Ammo Box Amp… a hand-wired tube guitar head amplifier, designed by a naval nuclear-trained engineering officer and built to MIL-SPEC using NASA/military-grade components. Personally, I would want to hear what it sounds like before sending…

  • Peterson StroboSoft Tuner

    The StroboSoft tuner from Peterson is a software (PC or Mac) version of the strobe tuners for which Peterson is famous. If you don’t know what a strobe tuner is, it is a tuner that works by triggering a strobe light from the audio signal of the instrument you are tuning. The strobe light illuminates…

  • Holophonic Sounds – Field recordings made in Vietnam

    This is truly what three-dimensional sound is. No expensive sound cards needed, just headphones. read more | digg story [ad#co-1]

  • iGuitar from Brian Moore Guitars

    This is an interesting video demonstrating the iGuitar from Brian Moore Guitars. I like this guitar because it connects directly to your PC via USB, so it is especially well suited to controlling software instruments. If you want more information about the various iGuitar models you can find it at the manufacturer’s site. They have…

  • Reading Music: Part Two

    This is the second part in what will probably turn out to be several posts about reading music. In my previous post about reading music, I talked about how becoming proficient at reading music seems to make the process of learning new music go much faster, allowing you to spend your practice time more productively.…

  • Return of the Robots.

    Perhaps Evil Spud Boy was too hasty in saying farewell to QRIO and Aibo. A lot of speculation on the internet indicates that Google is up too something and I think we know what that is. First, we see that Google is teaming up with Volkswagon and nVidia to create a new vehicle navigation system.…

  • Reading Music: Part One

    Among guitarists, the subject of whether it is important to be able to read standard music notation seems to create a lot of controversy. With most other music instruments, there is usually no question, if you are going to learn to play, you will have to learn to read music. But with guitar, learning to…