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Guitar Tips: Learning To Use Your Ears
Are you tired of looking for tabs on the internet for hours on end, in order to find one that’s exactly like the song you’re trying to learn, and that doesn’t have any mistakes in it? Have you ever spent weeks learning a song, just to find out you’ve learned it wrong? Here are some guitar tips to help you improve your hearing and overall guitar playing. Unless you... -
Guitar Love: Ibanez Hollowbody Guitar
The Ibanez hollowbody guitar and its’ various ranges has a strong grip on the Jazz community of guitar players. When I was looking into getting into jazz and getting a hollowbody, the first place I looked at was the Artcore range. The price was doable and the guitars were pretty good quality. The first model I owned was an AS 73 and I was really chuffed with it at... -
Music Heals
Have you ever left for home from a long day of school/work, and you have a specific song in mind to blast through your earphones or your car speakers, almost like you’ve had a mental craving for it? Was it almost like you subconsciously knew that it would make you feel better and more relaxed? Music has been proven to be effective in many forms of healing: emotional, cognitive,... -
Guitar and Music as a Form of Stress Relief
One of the many benefits of learning to play guitar, or any musical instrument is the fact that you can use your new-found hobby as a form of daily stress relief. The average person can vastly gain from the therapeutic effects of recreational music making in order to let off some steam. It’s not always possible for someone to escape from the day to day stresses of life. We... -
Improve Your Guitar Playing
The digital era has been with us for a while now and that doesn’t mean only for video games and the occasional Facebook checkup. Digital equipment has become relatively cheap and basic software can often be free. This gives the average guitarist no excuse for not starting to record their playing. This is also because it can be extremely beneficial to do so. Here are a few reasons why... -
Networking For The Guitar Player
‘Most of my gigs have come from me just putting myself out there. It’s all about networking and the random people you meet. You never know when your paths will cross again and you’ll get an opportunity.’ – Tommy Kessler – Guitarist for Blondie, Rock of Ages (The Musical) and Blue Man Group (New York based theater performance) So you’ve been playing for a while now, practicing in your... -
Learning Theory Through Chord Melodies
What are chord melodies? Why learn chord melodies or learn to arrange chord melodies? And how can learning chord melodies help me understand theory better? These are 3 questions that you may ask when looking at the topic of this blog. Firstly, what are chord melodies? Chord melodies, as the name suggests, are exactly that: the melody of a song mixed with its chords. The melody of the song is what the... -
Marketing for Bands and Artists
Often times I’ll be browsing on social media sites and stumble upon some band or guitar player that I think is amazing, but it’s hidden in the shadows. It comes down to the marketing for bands and artists or lack of. Other times my friends that have way too much time on their hands, will introduce me to a band that they have discovered on the internet, that seemingly... -
Is 432Hz the new 440Hz?
Scientists have proved that the 432Hz frequency has many advantages over its’ sibling 440Hz. Even in our own bodies, we are made up of energy vibrating at a wide range of different frequencies. Among these scientists to prove 432Hz is good for you, they also had an interest in music, like Albert Einstein and Nikola Tesla. They asked the question: can sound frequencies affect us on a physiological level.... -
Practicing Playing Guitar
I have been playing guitar for roughly eight years at this point and through the years I find the key to getting better on the instrument is to keep motivating yourself to practice playing guitar as much as possible daily! It’s quite easy to get discouraged, not only with guitar but in any aspect of life, when you don’t see progress. The very first thing you must remember is...