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What’s the point of using an attenuator?

Posted in amplifiers, amps, aracom amps, attenuator, GAS, gear, gear reviews, guitar, guitar attenuators, guitar gear, guitar gear reviews, guitar tone, instruction, Music, musicians, PRX150-Pro, tagged amplifiers, amps, aracom, attenuator, GAS, gear, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear, guitar gear reviews, guitarists, Guitars, Music, musicians, Tone on April 10, 2010 | 5 Comments »

This is a hotly debated topic, and there are great arguments for or against using one. I’m of the former group and have used attenuators to great success over the years. To demonstrate how useful an attenuator can be, I put together a quick video. Here you go: I wanted to be as non-technical about [...]

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Got GAS because you’re not happy with your amp’s tone? Before you sell it…

Posted in amplifiers, amps, Amps/Amplification, aracom amps, EL84, GAS, gear, guitar, guitarists, Guitars, instruction, NOS, tagged amp, amplification, amplifiers, amps, aracom, aracom amps, GAS, gear, guitarists, Guitars, Music, musicians on December 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »

There are two things you should consider doing before you decide to get rid of it. I’ve done this on two amps, and have ended up keeping them both. 1. Change your speaker(s) Let’s state the obvious: An amp’s speaker produces the sound, but it is amazing how many people I’ve come across who don’t [...]

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Blues With Brains Journey Update

Posted in guitar gear, guitar gear reviews, guitar instruction, guitar lessons, guitarists, Guitars, improvisation, inspiration, instruction, learn guitar, Music, musicians, new song, tagged blues with brains, guitar gear, guitar gear reviews, guitar lessons, guitar life, guitarists, Guitars, learn guitar, Music, musicians on November 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

As I’ve mentioned in the past, I purchased Chuck D’Aloia’s “Blues with Brains” series. After a month, I still haven’t moved past Volume 1, but that’s only because I’m going slowly and methodically with the process. Besides, the one thing that I found is that Chuck throws A LOT of stuff at you in a [...]

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Give Your Rhythm Parts a Boost with Partial Chord Shapes

Posted in gear, guitar instruction, guitar theory, guitarists, Guitars, instruction, learn guitar, Music, musicians, tagged guitar, guitarists, Guitars, instruction, learn guitar, Music, musicians on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve spoken about him before, but Mark Wein of Mark Wein Guitar Lessons really knows his stuff, and I’ve gotten a lot mileage from his free video tutorials. One set of tutorials that I found as a real useful review, plus learning some new stuff as well, is his series on Partial Chord Shapes. Really [...]

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Got Lessons? Get ‘em at MarkWeinGuitarLessons.com!

Posted in guitar instruction, guitarists, Guitars, instruction, learn guitar, Music, music theory, musicians, tagged guitar, guitar instruction, guitar lessons, Guitars, instruction, learn guitar, mark wein, markweinguitarlessons, Music, musicians on August 20, 2009 | 6 Comments »

I normally don’t write about instructional sites, mainly because they’re a dime a dozen, and most follow the same model of discussing theory, and providing scale diagrams that accompany the theory. Not that these aren’t helpful, but I tend to be the type of player that learns more effectively by actual example. So it was [...]

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The Right Hand Knoweth Not What the Left Hand Doeth

Posted in guitar, guitar lifestyle, guitarists, Guitars, inspiration, instruction, Music, musicians, tagged guitar, guitarists, Guitars, Music, musicians, play guitar, playing guitar on August 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This will be a pretty short entry, but it is something that it seems I’ve spoken about with various young guitarists I work with on a constant basis, so I thought I write my thoughts about it here. BTW, this is not necessarily going to be an instructional article. For that, do a search on [...]

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You Get What You Pay For…

Posted in buying gear, gear, guitar, guitar gear, guitar lifestyle, guitarists, Guitars, inspiration, instruction, Music, musicians, quest for tone, tagged gear, gear thoughts, guitar, guitar gear, guitar philosophy, guitarists, Guitars, inspiration, Music, musicians, philosophy, thoughts on July 30, 2009 | 5 Comments »

Back in the late 90′s and into the turn of the century, I got swept up in the craze of Robert Kiyosaki’s “Rich Dad, Poor Dad.” I soaked up what he was saying like a sponge. It made so much sense to me! I was hooked, and proceeded to buy all his books, and two [...]

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Getting Better… At Just About Anything

Posted in guitar, guitar lifestyle, guitarists, Guitars, inspiration, instruction, Music, musicians, tagged guitar, guitarists, inspiration, learning guitar, Music, musicians on July 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Back in the late ’80′s to early ’90′s when getting your “personal power” was all the rage, I’ll admit, I took several of these courses designed to help me face my weaknesses, conquer my fears of success and learn to grow; gaining my own sense of personal power. Most of the ground we covered in [...]

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Better Guitar Playing Through… HYPNOSIS?!!!

Posted in guitar, guitar instruction, guitar lifestyle, guitarists, Guitars, inspiration, instruction, learn guitar, Music, music theory, musicians, tagged guitar, guitar gear, guitar hypnosis, guitarists, Guitars, hypnosis, learn guitar, Music, musicians on April 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »

I recently read a press release on Harmony Central where this company, Hypnobusters, has just released a self-hypnosis audio to improve your guitar playing. I snickered at first because when the word “hypnosis” is mentioned, my gut reaction is, “Yeah, right… just some more of that New Age crap…” But then again, over the years, [...]

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Interesting Guitar Instruction Site

Posted in guitar, guitar instruction, guitarists, Guitars, instruction, tagged guitar, guitar lessons, guitarists, instruction, learn guitar, lessons, Music, musicians, teaching guitar on February 18, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Ran across this site today called SpeedPicking.com that actually looks pretty interesting. In their words: The Speed Picking Workshop is for any Guitarist looking to vastly improve their Speed, Accuracy and Coordination using an alternate picking technique. The online workshop allows you to develop this technique using a measured and methodical approach. This method promises [...]

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