Guitar 5 ways to boost your guitar-playing confidence | MusicRadarmusicradar.com - Total Guitar By arming yourself with a few electric guitar jamming and improv tips, and getting your onstage environment organised, you can make sure you’re at your …
Music Jazz Beatles Covers: The Best Jazz Tributes To Liverpool’s Fab Fourudiscovermusic.com - Charles Waring By writing and playing their own songs instead of relying on professional songwriters and session musicians, The Beatles revolutionised pop and rock …
Music The Black Keys Teach Their Very Own 'MasterCourse' in Cheeky 'Funny Or Die' Spoofbillboard.com - Ellise Shafer Ever wanted to learn to rock like The Black Keys? Well, you shouldn't. In a video posted by Funny or Die on Monday (July 15), The Black Keys' Dan …
Guitar Steve Morse Dishes on How to Write a Soaring Guitar Instrumentalguitarplayer.com Steve Morse has defined himself as one of music’s most versatile shredders, not only through his work with Deep Purple but also with the Dixie Dregs …
Guitar Review: Guitar NutBuster Tuning Stabilizing Systemguitarplayer.com Keeping whammy systems in tune has been an issue since, well, the advent of whammy systems. We all remember how Floyd Rose built an empire with his …
Bass Guitar Guide Tonesbassmusicianmagazine.com - James Rosocha As a professional musician, the goal of developing and building upon your groove and solo vocabulary should be a life long endeavor. Both aspects of …
Gibson to move headquarters to downtown Nashvillenewschannel5.com NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Gibson Brands will announce on Monday their plans to move their headquarters to downtown Nashville, according to their CEO …
Walter Becker Walter Becker: Steely Dan Co-Founder’s Guitars, Sound Equipment Head to AuctionRolling Stone - Ryan Reed A collection of music gear belonging to Walter Becker, the late co-founder, guitarist and co-songwriter of Steely Dan, will be up for sale via …
NAMM Summer NAMM 2019: Supro revives its “finest electric”, the Silverwood | MusicRadarmusicradar.com - Michael Astley-Brown SUMMER NAMM 2019: Supro has announced a recreation of the Silverwood, an electric guitar once referred to as ‘Supro’s finest electric’ in its 1960 …
Guitar The Wildhearts: “My guitar has saved my life so many times” | MusicRadarmusicradar.com - Amit Sharma There is simply no other band quite like The Wildhearts. Since forming in Newcastle some 30 years ago, the quartet have become natural successors to …
Pink Floyd A Clever Print Reimagining the Lyrics of Pink Floyd’s ‘Comfortably Numb’ as a Vintage Pain Reliever Adlaughingsquid.com - Lori Dorn Artist Todd Alcott (previously) has quite cleverly reimagined the heartfelt and profound lyrics of the classic Pink Floyd song “Comfortably Numb” as …
Guitar Resonator Guitars 101premierguitar.com - Richie Owens Son House is one of the best-known resonator players in Delta blues, largely thanks to his 1960s comeback and the popularity of his much-covered …
Play buttonRingo Starr Watching Paul McCartney And Ringo Starr Play Beatles Classics Is An Absolute DelightEsquire - Matt MillerThe two performed together at Dodger Stadium for the first time in half a century This weekend, during his concert at Dodger Stadium, Paul McCartney brought out a guest for a performance the venue hadn't
Joe Satriani Joe Satriani’s Bending Drillguitarplayer.com This is a classic interview and lesson column from Joe Satriani from the GP archives. As you can see in ex. 1, the notes a, c, and e—the chord tones …
Complexity Pianist Performs ‘Happy Birthday’ in Different Musical Styles With Increasing Levels of Complexitylaughingsquid.com - Lori Dorn Wired presents pianist and composer Nahre Sol performing the classic “Happy Birthday” song in a variety of different styles, each one more complex …
Music Industry Why Independent Musicians Are Becoming The Future Of The Music IndustryForbes - Melissa DanielsStereotypes of professional musicians tend to stick to one pole or another — they’re either a world-famous, arena-touring troubadour with a luxurious lifestyle, or they’re down on their luck playing in
Classic Rock 50 Years Ago: The Animals Claim 'House of the Rising Sun' as Their Ownultimateclassicrock.com - Nick DeRiso It's since been hailed as a folk-rock breakthrough, the song that convinced Bob Dylan to go electric.Continue reading…
Acoustic Guitar How to Care for Acoustic Guitarsguitarplayer.com Acoustic guitars and other instruments depend on proper maintenance to play and sound their best. Fortunately, it’s pretty easy to keep an acoustic …
Play buttonRingo Starr Paul McCartney Brings Ringo Starr to the Stage for End-of-Tour Surprise (Watch)Variety - Chris Willman Beatles fans got something Saturday night they hadn’t in 53 years: the sight of Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr playing together on stage at Dodger …
Classical Music Classical music: the 100 greatest pieces of all timeThe Telegraph - By Ivan Hewett and Rupert ChristiansenIvan Hewett and Rupert Christiansen select 100 pieces sure to stir your heart, from the raw to the romantic The sheer vastness of classical music, a tradition that is now at least half a millennium old,
Jazz Donate an instrument – Ronnie Scott’s Instrument Amnesty (20 July)londonjazznews.com - peterbacon Peter Bacon reports: The Ronnie Scott’s Charitable Foundation is holding its third Instrument Amnesty on Saturday 20 July 2019. Instruments have …
Guitar The Importance of Rests, and How to Use Fret-Hand Muting Effectively | Guitarworldguitarworld.com - Matt Blake Hello, my name is Matt Blake, and I teach guitar classes at Wells Station Elementary School in Memphis, Tennessee. In this column, I’d like to share …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoMusic Technology The easy guide to music theory: how to use syncopation to make rhythms more exciting | MusicRadarmusicradar.com - Computer Music An old musicians’ joke defines syncopation as being particularly popular with brass players because it involves ‘an uneven movement from bar to …
Jazz In Conversation with Mandla Mlangeni: 'Jazz music was also considered pop music at some time. It was music for the youth.'okayafrica.com - Rufaro Samanga Mandla Mlangeni is a jazz musician and trumpeter whose Cape Town-based collective, the Tune and Recreation Committee, has released two albums to date …
Guitar Fender’s Latest Guitar Is Unabashedly a Tone Machinegearpatrol.com - By John Zientek Fender’s latest Telecaster is unabashedly a tone machine. The limited-edition Rarities Flame Maple Top Chambered Telecaster features a resonant …
Electric Guitar Steve Lukather's 12-Tone Secretsguitarplayer.com Throughout the history of recorded music, many guitarists have created magic from the dimly lit booths of the studio, from legends like Tommy …
Guitar X-Bracing: A Brief Historyguitarplayer.com On the vast majority of acoustic guitars, the top is strengthened and supported by wood bracing on the underside, most prominent of which is an …
Play buttonCulture The Unsettling Timbre Produced by a 7-Foot-Wide Gong | Colossalthisiscolossal.com - Kate Sierzputowski Paiste Gong Master Sven Meier demonstrates how to strike and a seven-foot-wide gong for maximum impact in a Youtube video by Wind Chimes Australia. …
Bass Guitar PRS expands guitar accessories line-up with new strings and cables | MusicRadarmusicradar.com - Michael Astley-Brown PRS is making a serious play for the guitar accessory market with the release of new electric guitar strings and cables. The company’s Signature Series …
