An Ode to the Coffee Maker
Master of Mocca – a brewing machine Fixing your java, grinding your beans Stranded, without me you can’t do a thing Just call my name – I deal caffeine Master! Master!
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10 Great Tips from Wikihow on Writing Thrash Riffs
I found a list of 10 great tips in an unexpected place – Wikihow. Wikihow is a collaborative site with how-to manuals on almost every subject, including writing thrash riffs apparently. The tips are simple but really very good and most of them can be applied to writing music in general. Here’s the list in […]
Read moreCrazy Train – Cover By 9 Year Old and His Band
Maybe I should make this a friday theme, kids doing awesome covers :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUMM9ZnyGdw
Read moreMike Portnoy Fingers
Drumming to Ouverture 1928 on an iPad, pretty amazing work :-)
Read moreGuitar Pro for iOS – Tab Editing on Your iPhone
Guitar Pro has always been an invaluable tool for my guitar learning. First as a tool to not only read tabs but actually hear them – it’s incredible how the wrong tempo/phrasing can transform a tab for a newbie into a completely unintelligeble song. Lately I’ve been using it to tab down my own compositions, […]
Read moreHaake talks Bleed
Probably the most accomplished metal drummer of all describes the process of learning to play Bleed:
Read moreBest Voice in Rock and Roll?
Someone at the office played this great song, been ages since I heard it last!
Read moreAdvanced Palm Muting for Metal
Palm muting is really essential to most metal genres, and fast alt.picked palm muting even more so. I’ve really put time into my alt picking – practicing slowly with a metronome at first – really aiming at getting a consistent sound between upstrokes and downstrokes, and getting a good chug out of each note. It’s […]
Read morePractice Like a Child – Improving Your Phrasing
Have you been practising your scales, your picking and your bends like crazy and your solos are still crap? I know mine are… I found a post on guitar blog Guitar Noise that is really on to something. The answer is phrasing – the division of a solo into small parts, alternating between fast and […]
Read moreVideo: Reaper for Guitarists 1 – Getting Started
I said on a guitarist forum that Reaper is really easy to get started with. One member didn’t really agree and challenged me to make a tutorial to prove it, so – here it is! My first video tutorial. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOdHnhd-sHM The tutorial covers really basic stuff and only assumes that you have installed Reaper on […]
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