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Review: Fulltone OCD

Posted in Effects, Guitars, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear, pedals, tagged distortion, effect pedals, Effects, fulltone, guitar, guitar effects, guitar pedals, guitarists, Music, musicians, OCD, overdrive, pedals on August 30, 2007 | 27 Comments »

There have only been a few times in all the years that I’ve been playing guitar that I’ve had an epiphany with a pedal, where after just playing a few notes, a light bulb would go off in my head, and I’d exclaim, “That’s the sound I’m after!” The Fulltone OCD did that to me [...]

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Song: I Will Sing (of Your Salvation)

Posted in GarageBand, Guitars, Music, Worship Music, guitar, musicians, recording, songs on August 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »

In my latest GarageBand project, I just finished recording a song that I wrote back in 2004, but never managed to record it until now. The song is called “I Will Sing (of Your Salvation).“ While the song is very special to me, the recording was actually a bit of an experiment as I wanted [...]

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Painful Pleasure

Posted in Guitars, Worship Music, guitar, guitarists, musicians, recording, songs on August 23, 2007 | 4 Comments »

Last night, I finally finished re-recorded a solo for a song I’ve been working on releasing (Great God). The original solo was actually pretty good, but because of some errant picking on my part, there some distracting “extras” that I could easily wave edit away. So I decided to re-do the solo entirely. But that’s [...]

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A New Journey ~ Part III

Posted in Guitars, Music, iMac, mac, musicians, recording, songs on August 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I finally got a couple of songs to a mostly finished state though I have to tweak the vocal volumes on one of the songs. You Stir My Soul Great God For the past week, I’ve been ever so tickled by the ease of recording that GarageBand provides. But no matter how easy the recording [...]

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A New Journey ~ Part II

Posted in GarageBand, Guitars, Music, Worship Music, guitar, guitar gear, iMac, musicians, performing, recording on August 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

All I can say is WOW! GarageBand is absolutely OFF THE HOOK! As I mentioned in a previous post, I was going to be using GarageBand to create song foundations for performing live. But to get myself more familiarized with the application, I decided to lay down a groove for a worship song that I [...]

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A New Journey ~ Part I

Posted in GarageBand, Guitars, Music, guitar, iMac, mac, musicians, performing, recording on August 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve been a gigging musician for several years, playing in all sorts of venues. 90% of my gigs are just me singing and accompanying myself with a single guitar and keyboard, which has worked for me for a long time. But as of late, the artist in me has yearned to stretch his wings and [...]

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Need to spec a song quickly? Do it on your Mac!

Posted in Guitars, Music, guitar, guitar gear, iMac, mac, musicians, recording on August 16, 2007 | 2 Comments »

For those of you who’ve known me for a long time, I’ve been a PC devotee for as long as I can remember, and used to scoff at the Mac as being a toy. But a few months ago, I decided to try out a MacBook Pro at my previous job, and what I thought [...]

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Review: Fender Twin Reverb ’65 Reissue

Posted in Amps/Amplification, Guitars, amps, gear, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear on August 14, 2007 | 2 Comments »

If you’re looking for the ultimate in clean tone, go no further. Fender is the clean standard, bar none, and the Twin Reverb is the definitive clean amp. Like the original, it is a no-frills, no fuss amp, providing 85 watts of beautiful clean tone. There is no drive channel with this amp, folks. You [...]

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Attention All Christian Youth: You Aren’t the Future of the Church

Posted in Worship Music on August 9, 2007 | 5 Comments »

YOU ARE THE NOW!!! Don’t let anyone else tell you otherwise! A lot of people talk about youth being the future of the Church. That couldn’t be more wrong. I feel like it’s simply an excuse for adults to not give up any of their control. As a long-time youth minister, when I hear those [...]

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Performance: Keeping Your Focus

Posted in Guitars, Music, guitar, guitarists, musicians, performing, playing live on August 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I read this great article by Tom Hess at Modern Guitars (thanks go to IG at igblog for turning me on to this online mag!) about the “little voices in your head” that talk to you when you’re playing, and it prompted me to write on something that I’ve never covered in any of my [...]

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