Graham English

Posts Tagged ‘guitar’

Is Your Ear Suspect?

If your ear can’t understand whatever it hears, then it’s suspect. Whatever the application — composing, songwriting, singing, playing the guitar, piano, or any other instrument — there is a logic to becoming a spontaneous musician. Your goal as a musician should be to get your musical intellect to the point where it becomes intuitive.

Play Guitar Like A Rock Star — Free Five Part Guitar Course

Inside you’ll learn…

The proper way to hold a guitar — you could be causing serious injury!
Tips for buying a new guitar — You really need to arm yourself well before you try haggling with your local guitar salesman.
Light speed guitar tuning techniques.
How to read tablature — in a few short minutes — and discover its [...]

Ultimate-Guitar.com: The Last Stand

The time has come for Ultimate-Guitar.Com to get an MPA letter. Surely, that was not something good, but the request to remove all tabs in 10 days. What does it mean? Nothing. We are legal. We are not going to shut down the website.
Let’s give our support to Ultimate Guitar! It’s not ethical to exercise [...]

Triple Your Ability To Rock

Two Canadian mathematicians from the University of Moncton in New Brunswick, have created an entirely new kind of string instrument that exploits a kind of mathematics owing more to Pythagoras’s theorem for triangles than to anything he ever thought about music.
Math is integral to music and its instruments. read more.

Guitarist Tricks of the Trade

From Tricks of the Trade:
Most gigs involve playing multiple sets, e.g., you go on at 9, play til 9:45, and go back on at 10. If the audience sees you looking at your watch, though, they will assume that you are bored. So wear your watch so that the dial is on the inside of [...]