Jon from GuitarNoize is running a soloing competition – with great judges, and a PRS for first prize! – and because it’s a C minor blues, I’ve not been able to restrain myself, and have recorded numerous entries
This first is just pretty straight, with a low-gain tone, played fingerstyle:
I was going to...
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Here’s a video of an early (not super early, but not yet final) version of an instrumental I’m working on called “Hide in the Sun”. The name is taken from a line in Holy Diver, by Dio: “You can hide in the sun till you see the light”. That’s because I was working on...
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Unless I’m totally confused, there’s something very screwy with YouTube lately. My video uploads take aaaaaages. So long in fact that I get repeated fail. I guess there’s not just YouTube involved, so I checked my end with SpeedTest.
According to multiple tests using different servers, I have an upload speed around 0.85 Mb/s.
That’s 0.1...
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This is a very new thing for me. My custom guitar by Adrian at Ash Customworks has pickups that are much lower output than I have previously used. I have a Rio Grande Texas in the bridge position, and a Rio Grande Buffalo in the neck position. Prior to this guitar, I’ve not had experience with...
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I’ve done a couple of Led Zeppelin covers on YouTube in the last couple of days. Being Led Zep covers, I figured I had to lower my guitar from its neck-high jazz-ish orientation, and get more towards Jimmy Page levels of lowness.
First up was a cover of Immigrant Song:
The strap was almost as low...
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