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Awesome Experience!

Posted in Live Performance, guitar, performing, playing live on January 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »

On Monday night, I performed solo in front of 700+ people; just me and my guitar. It was probably the largest crowd that I’ve ever played for as a solo act, and it was a totally cool experience. I did a lot of covers in my set ranging from James Taylor to the Beatles - [...]

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Review: Demeter COMP-1 Opto Compulator

Posted in Effects, Guitars, Tone, Worship Music, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear, pedals, performing, playing live on September 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I was at a casino last weekend, sitting in a bar with a couple of friends and listening to this great duo play classic rock hits. During one of their breaks between sets, I went to the stage to talk to the guitarist (he had a cool name: Buford) and checked out his gear. He [...]

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Fighting with my guitars…

Posted in Guitars, guitar, guitar gear, guitarists, performing, playing live on September 12, 2007 | 3 Comments »

My blog buddy, IG over at igblog always compels me to really think about playing. It’s uncanny. Thanks, IG. Anyway, in one of his latest installments entitled “You gotta fight your guitar a little…” he talked about how different guitarists actually “fight” with their guitar; overcoming bad setups or dead spots to really push [...]

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Review: Dr. Z Air Brake Revisited

Posted in Amps/Amplification, Effects, Tone, amps, gear, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear, performing, playing live on September 5, 2007 | No Comments »

About six months ago, I wrote a little ditty about the Dr. Z Air Brake, but I thought I’d revisit this essential piece of equipment once again. The Air Brake is a power attenuator; in other words, it reduces the amount of signal from your amp that reaches the speaker, thus reducing your audible output. [...]

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Song: We Sing With Joy!

Posted in Studio/Recording, Worship Music, catholic music, christian music, christian worship, church, performing, playing live, songs on September 4, 2007 | No Comments »

Song Title: We Sing with Joy!
Description:
This is a pure praise song, very simple to play and sing, and VERY easy to play. The main riff has only three chords and the bridge only adds another two chords. The trick to this was not to make it monotonous.

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Performance: Keeping Your Focus

Posted in Guitars, Live Performance, 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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