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My Afternoon Lesson With Tosin Abasi of Animals As Leaders

Friday, July 30, 2010

Getting older is a funny thing. “You just wait and see” must be on an endless subconscious loop in the minds of my parent’s generation. The younger you are, the more you think you know, and the more the older generation can’t wait for you to grow up a little bit and see the expression [...]

Community Links Feature Added to Blog

Thursday, July 29, 2010

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Social networking at its finest! I just installed a cool new plugin for the blog that I wanted to share with you all. It is, after all, a community feature that should hopefully encourage all of you Fretheads to share any and all guitar news that you come across on the Internet. It’s very easy [...]

Limit Your Practice Time, Get Better Results?

Thursday, July 29, 2010

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Marketing guru Seth Godin recently wrote a small but very engaging blog post suggesting that users/customers/yourself could possibly achieve more by setting limits. One of his examples is this: “The maximum number of tweets per day is 30.” His point/opinion is that we might be more likely to achieve our goals if the end result [...]

Meisel COM-90 Clip-On Electronic Tuner

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

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Having a good tuner is a must. I think we can all agree that there is nothing worse than a guitar player whose guitar is out of tune. When I first started learning jazz guitar (still learning…) I went on this mad search for the be-all clip-on tuner to use with my jazz box. It’s [...]

K’s Japan Wants Players to Smash Their Guitars

Monday, July 26, 2010

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A recent blog post reported on a Japanese guitar maker that is producing and selling guitars for the exclusive purpose of smashing them. The guitar maker – K’s Japan – has created the “Smash” guitar, which sells for less than $60 USD. They are promoting the guitar as a way to let out one’s frustrations [...]

How Important Are Your Guitar Cables?

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

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The glorious world of instrument cables. I’m surprised there hasn’t been an HBO documentary written about them yet, as I have seen many a discussion from some people thinking it’s the most important piece of equipment a guitarist can own. Some people are very particular about the cables they use. For example, Paul Gilbert is [...]

My Ambient Education

Monday, July 19, 2010

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It’s always fascinating to me how you can find the most profound lessons (about life, music, whatever) from the most seemingly unlikely places and events. The “light bulb” moments that, unfortunately, don’t come along as often as they probably should, and yet when they do, a fundamental paradigm shift occurs and rockets us forward to [...]

Big Studio Secrets for Home Recording and Production (Book)

Friday, July 16, 2010

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One of my biggest personal failings as a musician is that I was never much interested in recording or production. I never cared too much about tweaking my guitar sound to get “my” tone; I was always a plug-and-play kind of guy. There’s certainly nothing wrong with that approach, but as I get older and [...]

Tune Your Guitar!

Thursday, July 15, 2010

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Would it be safe to say that a blog post on the different ways to tune your guitar is perhaps the most mundane form of literally creativity, ever? Probably. But, be that as it may there’s nothing worse than listening to an out-of-tune guitar being played. I’m talking worse than getting this stuck in your [...]

To Pay or Not to Pay, the RIAA, and Filesharing

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

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I was having a hell of a time coming up with an appropriate post title today. I want to cover a few semi-related topics and couldn’t quite encapsulate them all into a pithy tag line. So ya get what ya get, nahmeen? (Aw yeah, I just got all East Coast on ya.) Anyway, I’m sure [...]