This month the Smithsonian Channel is broadcasting a series of specials called “Inside the Music” on the “unsung visionaries and change-makers” of modern music. As part of this series, this month the Smithsonian Channel will be broadcasting “Electrified: The Guitar Revolution.” The show will detail the history of the electric guitar which the Smithsonian Channel [ ... ] ...
Lately there has been a lot of activity on Facebook about the Taylor Baritone 8 String Acoustic-Electric guitar. We’re not sure exactly why – other than the fact that this guitar has 8 strings! But we thought that this made for as good an opportunity as any to remind our readers that Fretbase is building [ ... ] ...
Today is the first in what I hope will be a series of many guitar lessons that focus on techniques of various influential guitar players. To start the series I have chosen my biggest influence when I first picked up the electric guitar back in 1988, Eddie Van Halen. Now Eddie is such a ground-breaking guitar player with a myriad of techniques that I couldn’t possibly squeeze them all into a single lesson so I have chosen to break Eddie’s techniques up into different parts, Part 1 focusses on
Fan up the Classical Guitar Blog on Facebook!Matt Palmer is a Tennessee native with an extraordinary musical gift ... He’s an electric guitarist turned classical and holds degrees from MTSU and Appalachian State; he’s currently finishing up a DMA at the University of Arizona ... Matt is known for ridiculous scale technique, which he explains [ ... ] ...
The Vestbo Trio, featuring Michael Vestbo, released their first EP of five songs this past January. The Vestbo Trio is based out of Denmark and has been around for a few years making music they describe as “pure sound of the electric guitar: armed with a pop-musician’s love for melody, a jazz-player’s love for [ ... ] ...
If awards were given out to guitar manufacturers for quickly rolling out new signature models, Gibson Guitars would already have locked in the award for 2010. Earlier this year, Gibson rolled out a Keb’ Mo’ signature blues guitar and also a John Hiatt signature. Now Gibson is back with a guitar for country-music players – [ ... ] ...
I hadn’t heard of Brian Kahanek until I received a press release about him saying the following: ... “Brian Kahanek and his song, “Gemini” have been catapulted into the spotlight by the amazing success of the Guitar Hero II video game. “Gemini” is featured in the coveted unlock position and is now the inspiration of many aspiring guitarists, as evidenced by the numerous postings on Youtube and the countless discussions throughout social media networking channels.” ... Well I’m
Guthrie Govan, internationally recognised guitar virtuoso, is to present the next live webcast from Lick Library. This groundbreaking interactive event with live video and chat will start on the 5th May 2010 at 19.00 (BST), 11.00 USA-PST, or 14.00 USA-EST ... Lick Library have uploaded on to their You Tube channel clips featuring some of the web lessons, performances and interviews Guthrie Govan has done for them to wet your appetite. If you follow the links you can pre-register any questions
This Sunday we had a show in Cuba, the same club here in Pitesti where we used to play a couple of months(?) ago. We really enjoyed the show, since it was our night, nobody else played, we had the liberty to play whatever we wanted, electric, drums and everything and I could say we really rocked the night. Ok, I am free to say it, argue with me on that! ... So, this post is not about that night, but about a discussion that started during that night about a famous band in Romania, named Cargo, a
I cannot find the correct words to describe this beautifully crafted custom made chrome electric guitar. Just look at the detailed work that had to go into something like this. Did the craftsman etch out the pattern on it? Did he or she make a mold then put it into a press to create this [ ... ] ...