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How to Emulate Pedal Steel with Slide Guitar in Open E Tuning

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Published July 20, 2010 at 1:19 p.m.

If you want to expand the sounds you can get on slide guitar in open e tuning, then check out this tutorial on emulating pedal steel. Pedal Steel is a really cool instrument and can be extremely difficult to learn, carry around, and they are quite expensive. So what if you want to get that type [ ... ] ...

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IK Announces AmpliTube® iRig™

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Published May 6, 2010 at 5:00 p.m.

Somehow IK Multimedia have managed to squeeze Amplitube into an iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad app, the iPad is not so surprising but imagine using your iPhone or iPod Touch as a headphone amp using Amplitube modelling! Looks very cool from the trailer above, they have optimised the interface so that it is actually useable in such a small space, nice work ... AmpliTube iRig is a combination of an easy-to-use instrument interface adapter for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad mobile devices, and the new

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Read This Book: The Musician’s Way

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Published Feb. 4, 2010 at 12:59 p.m.

Sign up for the Newsletter! The Classical Guitar Blog is edited by Christopher Davis.When Gerald Klickstein sent me his book on tuning the guitar by ear, he also sent his other book, The Musician’s Way (aff. link) ... I’m always excited about books like this ... Most times they fill gaping holes in the [ ... ] ...

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New All Mahogany Martin 000-15S Available For Pre-Order From My Favorite Guitars

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Published Feb. 11, 2010 at 8:19 p.m.

Like a lot of people, we were pretty disappointed last year when Martin Guitar stopped manufacturing the Martin 000-15s as a standard model. The all-mahogany (or sometimes sapele) slothead was a beauty that harkens back to an earlier time. Sure, we weren’t crazy about the tuning pegs or the decal rosette but for an all-mahogany [ ... ] ...

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Dunlop Heavy Core Guitar Strings

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Published Jan. 31, 2010 at 7:13 p.m.

Dunlop Manufacturing have announced a new product for the drop tuning heavy metal freaks out there called Heavy Core, these strings are 12 - 54 gauge Nickel Steel so they aren’t going to sound all loose and mushy when you tune to drop C or whatever your preference is ... Heavy Core® Strings are uniquely designed for the player that enjoys higher tension at standard tuning or normal tension at dropped tunings. Our proprietary core-to-wrap ratios are meticulously calculated so the player can

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5 for the Weekend - 2000

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Published Jan. 15, 2010 at 6:21 a.m.

Misterio (Al Di Meola ‘The Grande Passion’) ... Misterio is awe-inspiring. Al Di is awe-inspiring. He seems so rejuvenated with such incredible inspiration at this point in his career. Double Concerto, Al’s interpretation of the Astor Piazzolla composition is absolutely astonishing and quite possibly the most expressive thing I’ve ever heard in my life. The way that piece builds is head-shakingly good, a lesson in composition to say the least ... For me, this was the album where Al Di

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Effective Tuning

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Published Jan. 18, 2010 at 8:19 a.m.

So, NAMM is upon us and the buzz word is “polyphonic tuning”. That’s great tech but just how much will this help us get our guitars in tune properly? It will certainly speed up tuning up floating bridges and I’m seriously interested for that alone! But there’s so much more going on with the guitar neck that in my opinion an electronic tuner is simply one step of the tuning process ... And it’s tuning that is one of the areas where I think a lot of guitar players fall flat ... See

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NAMM 2010: TC Electronic announce the PolyTune Polyphonic Tuner

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Published Jan. 14, 2010 at 7:17 p.m.

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Last week I posted about a new software app called the Polyphonic Guitar Tuner which I thought looked pretty cool, well it seems that they have been pipped to the post, unless of course that was a sneaky viral from TC Electronic? It could well be considering the developer is Danish as are TC Electronic! ... The PolyTune is a stomp box sized Polyphonic Tuner that allows you to switch modes between a standard tuning mode and PolyTune mode that enables you to tune all your strings at the same time.

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How to Play Heavy Metal Guitar : Drop D Tuning for Metal Guitar

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Published Jan. 17, 2010 at 11:26 a.m.

To learn more on metal check out Metal Riffology.To learn metal riffing check out Metal Riffology.Share and Enjoy: ...

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Review: Tuning the Guitar by Ear

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Published Jan. 19, 2010 at 5:00 p.m.

Sign up for the Newsletter! The Classical Guitar Blog is edited by Christopher Davis.When author Gerald Klickstein emailed me after reading my post on tuning by ear, he challenged my thoughts on tuning ... Gerald was kind enough to send his book, Tuning the Guitar by Ear (aff. link) ... The tuning methods described [ ... ] ...

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