Blue Noize blues solo contest update

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Published Aug. 11, 2010 at 4:48 p.m.
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The competition is in full swing with nearly 50 responses at the time of writing and that is in just 8 days! So far there have been some great entries so keep them coming and remember you can enter more than once. I thought I would post a couple of my favourites so far, not that it really matters as Andy Wood, Rick Graham and Tom Quayle are going to make the decision who the winners are ... Lyle Watt - this one came in very early in fact I think he uploaded his entry within 24 hours of the

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Smithsonian Channel Dives Deep on The Evolution of Electric Guitar (Video)

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Published Aug. 11, 2010 at 2:31 p.m.

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 [ ... ] ...

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Using Cello Suite No. 1’s Motif for Improvisation

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Published Aug. 11, 2010 at 10:18 a.m.

If you like this and would like to do webcam guitar lessons drop me a line.In this video Yo-Yo Ma plays the popular Cello Suite No. 1 by JS Bach. The most recognizable part in my opinion is the opening motif which is based off of a major chord. If we look at the first [ ... ] ...

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Ask Your Teacher to Tell Stories

Published Aug. 11, 2010 at 9:00 a.m.

In Sources of Power Gary Klein writes… The method we have found most powerful for eliciting knowledge is to use stories. If you ask experts what makes them so good, they are likely to give general answers that do not reveal much. But if you can get them to tell you about tough cases, nonroutine [ ... ] ...

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Review: Feared’s debut album - Feared

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Published Aug. 10, 2010 at 4:34 p.m.
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One of my favourite pastimes is scouring YouTube for gear demos and one of my favourite channels is fearedse, run by a guitarist called Ola Englund from Stockholm in Sweden. Ola’s gear demos are not your traditional videos that show every knob and switch, instead Ola lays down brutal multitrack guitars over his own compositions. Ola demonstrates high gain amps as he is in a couple of very heavy metal bands, Feared and Scarpoint. I saw on his recent demo video above which is a track called

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20 Years of Tall Tales

Published Aug. 10, 2010 at 4:27 p.m.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of Shake Your Money Maker, the Black Crowes’ debut album. To celebrate, the Crowes have arranged and recorded many of their classic songs as acoustic tracks and have released the tracks as part of the double album Croweology.As part of the 20th anniversary celebration, Chris Robinson is participating in [ ... ] ...

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The Guitar Player Says, We Do Requests?

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Published Aug. 10, 2010 at 8:31 a.m.

Sometimes my wife and I go out and watch some of the local talent playing around town. If the band asks for requests or perhaps someone has a request, and maybe a few requests are suggested, what happens if the band does not know those songs? I don’t know really, I’ve never been in a [ ... ] ...

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Epiphone Upgrades Their Humbuckers

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Published Aug. 9, 2010 at 10:47 p.m.

Epiphone has introduced a new humbucker called the ProBucker that will be standard in their Epiphone Les Paul Traditional Pro guitars.  The new ProBucker is based on Gibson’s popular Burstbucker pups that have been standard in Gibson Les Pauls for years.  The new Epiphone ProBuckers featuring unevenly wound coils and Alnico-II magnets that replicate that [ ... ] ...

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Pre-order Black Country Communion

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Published Aug. 9, 2010 at 6:30 p.m.
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Black Country Communion have announced that their debut album featuring Joe Bonamassa, Glenn Hughes, Jason Bonham and Derek Sherinian will be available in just over 6 weeks from now and you can already pre-order the album by heading over to the Black Country Communion online store. In the meantime while you are waiting for the album to arrive you can download the track “ One Last Soul ” taken from the album by going to the latest online Newsletter ... Learn to Play Guitar Online ... Follow

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Steve Lukather V.I.P. tickets available for UK tour

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Published Aug. 9, 2010 at 5:26 p.m.
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To coincide with the 11th October release of Steve Lukather’s new album “ All’s Well That Ends Well ”, Steve Lukather is offering fans a chance to buy exclusive V.I.P. tickets to his November UK tour. There are 25 V.I.P. tickets up for grab for each of the following concerts: ... London O2 Academy - Nov 18 ... The Robin 2 in Wolverhampton - Nov 19 ... The Brook in Southampton - Nov 20 ... The package includes a 30-minute meet and greet, a V.I.P. pass for early entry to the concert, a

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