Using software amplification simulators, or amp sims for short, is becoming increasingly popular. The benefits are many, you can tweak your sound endlessly, switch between different amp sims trying to find the best tone for your song. A drawback is that an amp sim not properly tuned can generate digital artifacts giving away that it’s […]
Read moreThere’s a lot of interesting guitar knowledge on Twitter. It can be a chore finding the good accounts to follow, but luckily I’m doing that job for you. I’m maintaining a list of bloggers, famous guitarists, teachers and gear manufacturers. The list is, of course, called Osiris Guitar. Here are the latest tweets from people […]
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A challenge for almost all beginners is to learn the notes on the fretboard. The notes on a guitar are inherently more difficult to learn than on a piano, since you don’t have the help of white and black keys. But here’s what worked best for me: 1) Learn the notes on the low E […]
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Remember how I urged bands to sell us, the unorganized global league of bedroom guitarists making covers, official multi-stem backing tracks? Well, apparently something is happening is that department! One of the pioneers in this area is Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, who have released stems for their songs under the creative commons license […]
Read moreI’m so gettingt his DVD! Damn, goosebumps at 0:40 :-) Listen in headphones (not on mobile) for some panned guitarists goodness!
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It is my great pleasure to present this guest post from Dan Vuksanovich, who runs the site Why I Suck at Guitar: It can be daunting for an aspiring rock/metal guitarist to feel adequate these days. There was a time when a few tasty pentatonic licks might turn heads, but the rock guitar game changed forever […]
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This is the second part in a three part series. You find the first part here: Writing Your First Song Part I: Creating Riffs. When you have a bunch of riffs you need to arrange them into a song. A song normally has (all or some of) the following building blocks (borrowing a bit from […]
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Read moreGreat post on Not Playing Guitar: http://www.notplayingguitar.com/2012/03/confessions-of-sloppy-player.html
Read moreLamb of God is a band that pops up everywhere on my “recommended” lists on last.fm etc. I’ve never really given them a chance, for two reasons: one is growl and the other is the preconception that anything xyzcore sucks. I’ve stopped being such a wuss and gotten into growl so now it’s heavy Lamb […]
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