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Indispensible Online Music Tools, About 7 of Them

By oneoverphi

These are all great tools that you can use from your browser, and they are free. Go, enjoy, be creative! gui​taris​thelp​.com — They say “gui­tarist help”, but really these tools are use­ful for any musi­cian. Chiefly of use are the tools for find­ing scales from lists of notes or chords, and the tool to find chords... »

Cool Percussion Instrument

By oneoverphi

The Hapi drum is a tuned per­cus­sion instru­ment that you tap to have it chime sweet notes. You can try it out vir­tu­ally to see how it sounds. They come in pen­ta­tonic scales for their stan­dard tun­ings, although other uncom­mon tun­ings are avail­able. I would love to get my hands on one. It seems to me... »

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... »

Canadian Songwriting Contest With a Cash Prize

By oneoverphi

You have just over two months to get your award win­ning song crafted. Astral Media Radio and Cana­dian Music Week are pre­sent­ing the 16th Annual National Song­writ­ing Com­pe­ti­tion. The dead­line is on Fri­day, Decem­ber 12, 2008, but don’t take my word for it read the rules and reg­u­la­tions. I must admit it’s a sweet Grand Prize too: $10,000.00... »

State Your Musical Influences

By oneoverphi

What kind of music do you play? A seem­ingly inno­cent ques­tion, but is really loaded with com­pli­ca­tions and pit­falls. I know I’m not alone when I have trou­ble answer­ing this one. Many musi­cians find them­selves torn between giv­ing the sim­ple answer or the com­plex one. It is rare that one would enjoy, and be influ­enced by, one... »

A Chord Transposition Chart

By oneoverphi

I’ve made up a lit­tle chart for you to help in con­vert­ing songs from one key to another. Right click and Save-Image-As… to grab it. Print it out, keep it in your song­writ­ing note­book. Cheers. »

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... »

Songs to Get You Laid

By oneoverphi

Musi­cians have an edge when it comes to attract­ing oth­ers. I’d have to say that many gui­tarists pick up the instru­ment with this goal in mind, for some that’s the only rea­son they play. If your aim is to impress then lis­ten up, there are impor­tant prin­ci­ples at work. You want to use your... »

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... »

Give Me a Beat

By oneoverphi

I’ve tried all sorts of metronome soft­ware. Frankly, much of it is dreck, expen­sive dreck. I hate it when some­one wants to charge as much for a metronome pro­gram as an actual metronome would be. Let’s be hon­est, hav­ing to have boot up my com­puter just to get a rhyth­mic click-click is a pain. If you’re charg­ing $30... »

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