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Pick Up Tips From Guitar Masters

By oneoverphi

Go get your free lessons from great gui­tarists. CBC has some great pod­casts from their Gui­tar Gurus Week. Grab your gui­tar and your inter­net con­nec­tion and down­load their videos. Bruce Cock­burn shows how to play “If I Had A Rocket Launcher”. Jesse Cook decon­structs the mys­tery of Rumba Fla­menco strumming. Mada­gas­car Slim reveals the secrets of Mala­gasy finger-picking. Colin Lin­den gives you the scoop... »

Study Up on Recording Guitar and Work It Like a Pro… Baby

By oneoverphi

Well, between my day job, rais­ing the lit­tle mon­keys, bang­ing my head against con­tract work, and design­ing up Euphonic Remarks’ new home, it’s a won­der that I can get to post­ing at all. This is a short but good one. I’ve rounded up some solid arti­cles on record­ing gui­tars. There is lots of in-depth infor­ma­tion in these... »

Guitar Hero: Good? Evil?

By oneoverphi

Just think­ing on my pre­vi­ous post, opin­ion on the rel­a­tive value of Gui­tar Hero is quite var­ied among musi­cians. On the one hand you have some who vil­ify it and on the other hand you have those that praise it. While up the mid­dle is the “Relax, it’s just a game” crowd.  I used to play... »

Could Guitar Hero Be Coming to the Small Screen?

By oneoverphi

I can tell you from my own child­hood expe­ri­ence, hav­ing to watch other peo­ple play video games was one of the worst things you could do (“Is it my turn yet?”). That expe­ri­ence seems to have been for­got­ten by some peo­ple because it appears that Activi­sion Bliz­zard, the mak­ers of Gui­tar Hero, are con­sid­er­ing... »

The Best Tab Site Ever

By oneoverphi

Most online tab sucks. That is not to say that they are incor­rect or incom­plete (though this is a com­mon crime of online tab) but that often they are an unread­able mash of ASCII that is from a sys­tem pro­duced when mon­i­tors could only dis­play 16 colours. Just look at the exam­ple below. As far as... »

Sawing at My Guitar

By oneoverphi

I’ve done some­thing that I’ve wanted to try for a long time. Tak­ing my Christ­mas gift cer­tifi­cate to Long and McQuade, I bought a vio­lin bow to use on my gui­tar. Let me tell you, it is not easy to just pick up a bow and start play­ing. First thing I noticed was that the notes I was hear­ing were... »

How to Start Your Own Boutique Pedal Business

By oneoverphi

Me wanty. dano at beavis audio research has released the Beavis Board. This makes pro­to­typ­ing gui­tar effects so much eas­ier. I’ve played around with a cou­ple of bread­boards, build­ing fuzz cir­cuits here and there, but was always dis­ap­pointed by hav­ing jacks, 9 volts, and switches hang­ing off umbil­i­cals. It became too much of a bother to get... »

Trying Out Ribbon Wound Strings

By oneoverphi

Okay, it’s rec­om­men­da­tion time. Last night I restrung my gui­tar. It was sorely needed and I thought it would be the per­fect time to try out rib­bon wound strings as I’m cur­rently play­ing around with a new gui­tar slide. For those that don’t know, rib­bon wound, or flat wound strings, are strings whose over­wind­ings are made with... »

A Distortion Pedal Recommendation

By oneoverphi

I was recently shop­ping around for an over­drive pedal at my local music shop. I tried out a T.C. Elec­tronic Clas­sic Booster + Dis­tor­tion this pedal is nice. Really nice. I have an Epi­phone SG run­ning through a Traynor amp, so that’s the setup I had going on in the store just to make sure every­thing sounds good together. While this... »

Did Somebody Say Moog?

By oneoverphi

So the Moog gui­tar is out. Just as I would expect from Moog there are more than enough jacks, dials, and switches. I’m curi­ous to see who picks this up and what they do with it. The mute func­tion on the strings is inter­est­ing and can cer­tainly clean up your sound. But I find that some­times... »

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