I’ve just this morning thought for the first time about something I often do on the guitar, and found that there is a perfectly strong theoretical basis to it – even though it didn’t arise that way. Yay. It’s a funny sort of thing, and I’ve always been a bit embarrassed by it...
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I love these guys. I’ve only recently heard of them, and every time I listen to them I find myself breaking into a grin from ear to ear. It’s just so fun and cool.
The Baseballs are a German band who have the greaser look down pat and the 50s rockabilly...
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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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I’ve been a bit slack with new YouTube vids lately, but I do have a few newies to share. Some of you might have seen the links on my Twitter and/or FaceBook, but if you didn’t check ‘em out, here they are again
The first is a cover of “So What” by Miles...
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That is: making music so it is for everyone, not making music that everyone will like…. That’s no clearer, is it?
What I mean is this article linked to by Dan Levitin – he of the wonderful book ‘This is Your Brain on Music’.
I haven’t yet watched the video, as the video page...
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