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| Eric Clapton Updates Lineup for Crossroads Guitar Festival |
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| Eric Clapton today announced an updated event schedule for the spectacular three-day Crossroads Guitar Festival, an SBC Presentation, June 4-6, 2004, at Fair Park and Cotton Bowl Stadium. The event will include continual concerts and once-in-a-lifetime guitar clinics by the world's leading artists. |
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| Guitar Magazine Revamped |
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| Guitar magazine, IPC Media?s longest serving title for musicians, will relaunch this week after six months of research and development into the future of the magazine. Alongside a new cover and design, Guitar will also feature an enhanced reviews and news section and extra tuition content. |
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| Eric Clapton to auction the famous Blacky Guitar |
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| THE guitar that helped Eric Clapton through his drink and drug hell is expected to sell for a world-record price. The instrument went on show on Friday in New York and has been tipped to sell for more than $700,000. Blackie a Fender Stratocaster custom-built by the guitarist was virtually the only electric guitar he played between 1970 and 1985. Clapton said of his guitar: 'It is such a personal thing.' It will be sold at a charity auction on June 24. |
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| Combinator 2 Effects Switcher from Carl Martin |
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| The Carl Martin Combinator 2 is a non-MIDI programmable effects switching system that handles up to eight pedals. Each pedal is connected to one of eight individual effects loops (two with stereo returns), and then assigned to one or more of 18 groups. Pushing the program switch for a group simultaneously engages all of the pedals assigned to it. So, for example, if you have a fuzz, a wah, and a chorus assigned to program switch 1, pressing that switch will turn them all on or off. The Combinator 2 features 18 programs, tuner output, master mute, and external switching on loops 1, 2, and 3, each with a separate jack. |
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| Laney Releases New A1 Acoustic Combo Amp |
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| Laney's new A1 Combo Acoustic Amp is designed to be used as either the primary source of amplification, where it can be used in a regular position or it can be leaned back and used as a personal monitor with larger PA setups. There is also the ability to connect a large number of different inputs into the A1. So if the situation arises where you need to connect an acoustic guitar, a backing track and a second instrument such as a bass and/or maybe a vocal mic and still have control over individual channel volumes and EQ's, you can do it all. Read On.... |
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| America's Greatest Guitar Face |
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The New York Post's Page Six reports: "A gang of guitar gods has agreed to judge a photo search of America's greatest 'guitar face' ? the musical mugging that some overexuberant ax-men do during a solo. |
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| Guitar World Offers First Guitar Building Contest |
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| Every guitarist dreams of designing their own guitar, but not everyone may have the budget to make it happen. Now you have the chance to get that ultimate axe courtesy of Guitar World magazine and their first-ever guitar design contest. Guitar World and guitar-makers Fender Musical Instrument Corporation are not only offering the chance to design a guitar, but also to have it judged by three true hard rock iconsBlack Sabbath's Tony Iommi (#1 on GW's list of the Greatest Metal Guitarists), Aerosmith's Joe Perry, and Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello. |
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| Electrosonic Releases New FireBall Tube head |
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| Electrosonic Amplifiers has introduced the Fireball amplifier, a full size head unit which takes all of the customizable aspects that Electrosonic is known for, adding a powerful 40w class AB output section. Like its lower-powered siblings, the Fireball is an amplifier platform, allowing players to select what preamp, power amp, and rectifier configurations they want on their amplifier. In addition, many upgrade options are available. This allows players to add only features which they will actually use, avoiding price increasing features that they do not need. |
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| Guitar manufacturer helps give troops a boost |
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U.S. troops serving in Iraq will soon be able to strum away their blues thanks to a hefty donation from a Lafayette-based guitar manufacturer and an Iowa-based music store.
CA Guitars is putting the final touches on six carbon composite acoustic guitars, which will soon be shipped to recreation rooms at U.S. bases throughout Iraq. Each guitar, worth $1,200 to $1,800, comes with an accessories package worth about $200. The package, donated by Glenwood Guitars and Music in Glenwood, Iowa, includes an electronic tuner, a leather strap, picks, a string winder, extra sets of strings, a polish cloth and a Lee Oskar harmonica.
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| Neoclassical Rock Ideas |
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enigmatic_minstrel writes "Given our recent Yngwie-bashing, I thought it would be good
to look at some interesting neo-classical ideas that made Yngwie
Popular in the first place- because even though he can be slightly
over-the-top, he is still a fantastic and popular player. Even if
this style of music isnt your thing, a lot can be learned, and applied to other styles." |
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| Joe Satriani Showcases JSX Amp at Clinic Tour |
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Peavey endorser and guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani will demo his new co-designed Peavey JSX guitar amplifiers on an upcoming U.S. Clinic Tour, which runs from May 11 in Overland Park, Kan., through May 18 in Portland, Ore. The new three-channel JSX guitar amplifier combines the tonal flexibility and responsive, versatile gain structures he's always sought into a single guitar amplifier. As a starting point in creating this amp, Peavey amplifier design engineers began with two amps Satriani has used extensively throughout his career: the Peavey Classic 50 and, more recently, Peavey Triple XXX Series amps. "I started to rely on those amps quite a bit, but I wound up in a situation where my live rig was completely different from what I used in the studio," he said. One of the main goals of the JSX amp project was to bring these different tones and EQ options together in one amp. |
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| WCR Pickups Introduces the HERC Set |
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WCR's (Wagner Custom Rewinds') latest pickup design is the HERC set, which takes their name from Michael Calhoun (aka the HERC) from the Axe House, who helped with the design of these new passive humbuckers. The two humbuckers in the HERC set are designed to be used primarily with contemporary high-gain amps with the mid-scoop/pronounced bottom end, but will work with all other types as well. They are completely passive, and no batteries are required. |
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| Hughes & Kettner Edition Blue 20th Anniversary Guitar Combo |
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| With 20 Watts of power provided by a pair of EL84 tubes, the Hughes & Kettner Edition Blue 20th Anniversary is designed to go from clean to crunch to rock. The 12" Rockdriver Cream speaker was created in a joint effort with Eminence, and is described as a mid-Atlantic blend combining the best of American and British tonal properties. An onboard spring reverb and an effects loop round out the Anniversary model's feature set. |
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| Limited Edition Roar Fuzz Pedal BY Hao |
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| Hao's The Roar Guitar pedal is designed to sound nothing like the pedals of the past or present. The Roar can be used as a booster, vintage-style fuzz, or as a completely new type of distortion for all-new effects. As the name implies, with the Roar knob cranked it produces thunderous crunch. When the Roar knob is set low, it acts as a fat booster with booming low end when gently attacked and light crunch with a hard pick attack. |
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| Learn the Notes on the Fretboard Quickly!! |
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Learning the notes on the fretboard is an extremely important aspect of playing guitar. Here are some drills for learning the notes quickly:
Memorize Natural Notes on Low E, A, and D strings. The 7 natural notes, or musical alphabet, is ABCDEFG. Each natural note is separated by 2 frets EXCEPT B-C and E-F, which are 1 fret apart. Read on....
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Did You Know? |
Intervals 1,b3,b5 make up a diminished triad
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Archived Files |
| Wednesday, July 29 | | · | Fender Starcaster Guitar Packages Now Available |
| Friday, July 17 | | · | Professor Bruce Jacob Adds A New Twist To The Electric Guitar |
| Tuesday, June 16 | | · | The Ventures Guitarist Bob Bogle Dies at 75 |
| · | Eddie Van Halen Takes Nike to Court |
| Friday, June 12 | | · | Sonuus G2M Universal Guitar to MIDI Converter |
| Tuesday, June 09 | | · | Fender Limited Edition 40th Anniversary Woodstock Strat |
| Thursday, June 04 | | · | Blues Legend Koko Taylor Dies at 80 |
| Tuesday, May 26 | | · | Guitars Not Guns to Raffle Two Great Guitars for Charity |
| Thursday, May 07 | | · | Sierra Guitars 2009 Lineup |
| · | 3 New Cedar Top Guitar Models From Sierra Guitars |
| Monday, May 04 | | · | Sierra Guitars Offer Rebates And Free Gear |
| Monday, April 27 | | · | Robby Krieger SG By Gibson |
| Monday, April 13 | | · | Jeff Beck inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame |
| Tuesday, April 07 | | · | How to Install the Tremol-No(tm) System |
| · | Fix your tremolo problems with Tremol-No(tm) |
| Tuesday, March 31 | | · | The Rhythm Ring - Percussion at Your Fingertips |
| Monday, March 30 | | · | Ceriatone Amps - Build a Clone Amp |
| · | Jimi Hendrix Home Recording Found |
| Friday, March 20 | | · | Arbor Guitars Unleash Arbor in Action - Customer Photo Gallery |
| Monday, March 09 | | · | The Carl Martin Rock Bug - Guitar Amp Speaker Simulator |
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