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Use Your Guitar Practice Time Effectively
If you are an adult just beginning to learn guitar, you may have difficulty finding time to practice. Putting in enough time is a big challenge for anyone taking up guitar at any age, but as you get older I think it becomes even more of a challenge. I didn’t start learning guitar until I…
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FCC to Fine Behringer One Million Dollars
An interesting piece of news if you own any Behringer equipment: Radio World Posted an article saying that the FCC is proposing a $1,000,000 fine for marketing products in the United States without certification that they meet FCC standards for radio interference. There is a list of the specific models that were imported in the…
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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.
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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.
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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]
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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…
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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…
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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]
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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…
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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.…