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Gear Review: Peterson VS-R StroboRack

Posted in DigiTech, GAS, GarageBand, Guitars, Miscellaneous, Music, buying gear, distortion, effect pedals, fender, gear, gear announcements, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear, guitar reviews, guitarists, modes, music theory, musicians, new gear, tagged guitar, Music, Guitars, gear, gear reviews, guitarists, musicians, GAS, guitar tuners, StroboRack, Peterson Tuners on June 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Peterson VS-R StroboRack
Summary: Super-accurate, super-sophisticated, yet super-easy-to-use. With point-one cent accuracy and built-in temperament and sweeteners, plus a huge display, accurate tuning is a breeze with this unit!
Pros: The big display makes tuning extremely easy, and the built-in sweeteners (I’ll get into that in a bit) ensure that once you’re tuned you sound great.
Cons: None, [...]

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A Brief Introduction to Western Music Theory

Posted in Guitars, Music, instruction, modes, music theory, scales on January 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Hi! This is my first post on guitargear.org. I’d like to thank mr goofydawg for allowing me the chance to contribute here. I want to delve into theory and there’s no better place to start than the beginning. In this first post, I’m going to start with some basic terminology and [...]

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Epiphany in Modal Scale Theory

Posted in Guitars, guitar instruction, guitar theory, improvisation, inspiration, instruction, learn guitar, modes, music theory, scales, tagged guitar, guitar instruction, guitar theory, guitarists, Guitars, improvisation, instruction, learn guitar, modal theory, modes, Music, music theory, musicians, scales, soloing on January 5, 2009 | 14 Comments »

Note: This isn’t going to be an instructional piece… just a sharing piece… mostly…
I’ve been playing guitar for over 35 years, but it hasn’t been until the last couple of years – actually the last few months – that I’ve really started focusing on scales and modal theory. Chord theory I had down cold, but [...]

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