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1 - WIN A GUITAR
Visit the Fretted Instruments site at http://www.fretted.com.au for your chance to win a Takamine G-330 Acoustic Guitar, Valued At $550. Competition open to everyone as prize includes international shipping!
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3 - HEAR IT!
"SonicNet and Macromedia ShockRave launch FlashRadio,
the Internet's first visual radio station"
FlashRadio offers screen animations and a mix of tunes
and music news.
You’ll need RealAudio & Shockwave/Flash plug-ins to see/hear it.
Get these freely downloadable software additions to your browser
from the Sounds page
You’ll find plenty of other resources for free music on the sounds page, such as:
http://www.ruralnet.net.au/~the_well/ozmuzic/ OzMusic
http://www.imagineradio.com/ Imagine Radio
http://www.netradio.net/netcompanion/netcompanion.html NetRadio Companion
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4 - WHERE TO START AS A BEGINNER
If you don’t know where to start, try these:
Much guitar music on the Web is written in the form of tablature (TAB),
so this might be a place to start:
How to read and write TAB
You also need to be in tune, so check resources on the Tuning page
Also look at the tuition pages and chord charts
How To Play Guitar - lessons & other Text File Resources
You may be interested in:
The Truly Totally Different Guitar Instruction Book
or a great guitar teaching aid for $19.95
easyjamn
or this: eMedia Guitar Method CD ROM Tutorial
Here's a good site for a beginner:
coats.iupui.edu/~jegreenw/tab.html
It includes:
Popular Riffs for Beginners
coats.iupui.edu/~jegreenw/riff1.html
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5 - OK, SO WHAT ABOUT ALL THE GEAR?
If you’re looking for info on amps, tubes, effects, pedals etc. take a look at these new pages (effects is still under construction)
amps.htm
effects.htm
This is a sneak preview for subscribers, as these pages aren’t linked to on the site yet! Let me know any amp or effects specific sites you’d like to see added.
A comprehensive resource on this topic is found at:
Amp Tone and Effects Placement
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6 - "KILLER REPETITIONS!" (George Benson's "Midas Touch")
Regardless of your instrument or style of playing, this is a great Lesson built around one of the most fiery, creative players of all time.
Many years ago George Benson mastered the art of octaves and repeated figures, following in the footsteps of his mentors Wes Montgomery and Grant Green, respectively.
With his passion for blending jazz, blues, and pop music however, George did things with these concepts in a manner that no other guitarist in history has even come close to matching.
"Killer Repetitions" is a lesson featuring some of GB's favorite minor
pentatonic double-stops (two-note riffs), combined with repetitive formulas and laid over a latin-rock audio track (Santana's "Evil Ways").
Are the creative possibilities endless?
See (and hear) for yourself at the "Hot Licks" page:
http://www.visionmusic.com/lessoncentral.html
Thanks to Mark Stefani/Vision Music
http://www.visionmusic.com
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7 - EXPLODING GUITAR STORE!
I’ve received this comment in response to the article in the last newsletter, Exploding Guitar
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8 - THE LESSON IS LISTEN by Kirk Lorange
As a professional guitarist, I often wind up in situations where I’ve been hired to replace a sick or touring member of someone else’s band. Usually being last minute bookings with no time to rehearse, I just turn up, plug in, and wait for the music to start. What then?
Whether the band has chord charts or not, I LISTEN. I don’t play anything, I just listen. What’s the feel of the song? Who’s doing what? What’s the chord progression? What’s the vibe? Where does the chorus go? Where are the holes? Obviously, chord charts help a lot, but I still only listen at first.
After a few bars, I start inserting a part, the smallest part I can think of, maybe just a muted note or two filling a hole (no doubt left by the guitarist I’m replacing). I soon start to hear various possibilities. Which of these I choose to play depends on what everybody else is doing. I only know what that is because I’m still listening. I make sure that any part I do choose is complementary to the other player’s parts. The one thing I never do is gravitate to some other player’s part and play it with them. Doubling a part weakens rather than strengthens.
Solos come easy when you’ve been listening and you know exactly what’s going on. Having a de-coded mental picture of your fretboard helps too. For more on that, visit my site and find out about the ‘trick’.
Kirk Lorange
PO Box 186, North Tamborine
Queensland 4272 Australia
Ph / Fax +6175 545 0138
lorange@kirk.net
http://lorange.kirk.net
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9 - Ralph Novak: Philosophy of the Luthier
By Dean L. Farley
I first met Ralph Novak in 1980, when he was working at Subway Guitars in Berkeley, California. I’d assembled a kit Strat and it
needed a refret. My monstrosity was painted Shell Pink in tribute to Strats from Fender’s surf era. Little did I know what was to
come of Ralph’s distant future.
He was the fret guru in Berkeley, and his work was astounding – the best I’d ever seen! Ironically,
Vintage Guitar columnist Stephen White was also working at Subway at the time. So began our journey into luthiery madness!
Fast forward to 1989.
In the years since, Novak has built the instruments of choice for the likes of musicians like Charlie Hunter, Phillip De Gruy, Joe
Louis Walker, and Henry Kaiser, to name a few. As time passed, he experimented with a variety of design ideas involving the use
of non-traditional woods. At times, he was viewed as downright crazy from many a purist’s standpoint. But he turned the other
cheek, seeking the solutions that would satisfy his own personal playing requirements.
As a guitarist with a complete understanding of the vintage instruments he worked on, Novak wasn’t completely comfortable with
what any one instrument was capable of delivering. He wanted to combine all the features of his old favorites while adding design
twists that would give him everything he was looking for in an electric guitar. This led to the invention of his patented fanned-fret
fingerboard, which gives an instrument combined scale lengths.
Read the rest of this article at the Vintage Guitar site
(follow this direct link as the article is not linked to from the VG site – just another exclusive to subscribers to this newsletter – thanks Dean!)
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11 - GUESTBOOK TAB REQUEST
Entry in the Guitar guestbook:
Does anyone have an actual tab of Flight of the Bumblebee
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12 - JOKES
Q - Why are so many guitarists jokes one liners?
A - So the rest of the band can understand them.
more jokes
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13 - WIN PRIZES
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A - review a great guitar site
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B - write something for this Guitar Newsletter
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All entries are eligible for entry to the newsletter at a future date, but the prizes go to the most original / entertaining / interesting / useful article. It can be a funny guitar-related experience, a tip, joke, tab, review - anything fellow guitarists would enjoy reading!
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PLUS *** Visit the Fretted Instruments site
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