Beginner Guitar Lessons – Don’t be Fooled by What You Read
By admin | February 9, 2012
Beginner guitar lessons frequent the internet these days. The internet is crammed with these tutorials. There are also magazines in all the stores claiming they can make you the next big rock star and speed up your guitar playing in so many days.
It seems to me that most of these lessons are manipulating beginning guitarists. And these types of lessons in my opinion exist in far too great a number.
Some styles of music are not better than others, but that seems to be the message behind a lot of the tutorials and courses designed for beginning guitarists.
Why would they do this? Because they are selling a product or a sponsor’s site. Maybe so that you will return to their website or maybe buy their magazine again.
Whole genres are vanishing and classic techniques are being bungled as novice guitarists are growing into musicians with a misguided notion of what makes a first-rate guitarist. The effect this is having has been largely negative. Chiefly ..Read more
Learn To Play Acoustic – Do not Make These Common Beginner Mistakes
By admin | February 8, 2012
If you have thought to learn to play acoustic guitar, you may feel a little overloaded with all the brand new stuff you are studying. There are some common mistakes that brand new acoustic guitar players’ tend to make that needs to be avoided.
Fault: Leaving on factory strings.
Production line strings indicate the particular strings that included the musical instrument you can have. No matter whether you bought your acoustic new or used, customize the strings. Most element strings are usually of poor quality and are not as good for the hands whenever playing. Today your palms are really vulnerable to soreness. It might be a good idea to put money into moderate thicker strings at first. Request or perhaps locate a higher gauge string.
Fault: Strumming too hard and also busting strings.
When you are 1st playing guitar you are going to break strings. One particular cause is actually strumming too much. You may have too much of the pick hitting ..Read more
The Four Seasons Hotel Co-Sponsors Performance to Benefit the ‘Friends of Ratchaprasong’ in Bangkok
By admin | February 7, 2012
On October 1, 2010, The Four Seasons Hotel Bangkok, a long a favored destination of Luxury Hotel Experts travel clients, recently co-sponsored a performance of H.E. Admiral M.L. Usni Pramoj’s String Quartet to benefit the ‘Friends of Ratchaprasong.’ The quartet, which was performed by accomplished musicians of the Princess Galyani Institute of Music, was well received by its audience and the event was declared a resounding success.
An accomplished musician, Admiral M.L. Usni Pramoj began composing his first String Quartet in April of 2010 when Bangkok was facing its most serious turmoil in recent years. As his work on the music progressed, a story around the music began to emerge. The quartet’s first movement is intended to portray Thailand’s bucolic rural life, and is offset by the turbulence of the second movement, which depicts the red-shirted tide of demonstrators sweeping over Bangkok. The third movement is more somber, a depiction of grief for the nation’s ..Read more
Jason.con.ca’s Interview With The Great Kat Guitar Shred Virtuoso
By admin | February 7, 2012
JASON.CON.CA’S INTERVIEW WITH THE GREAT KAT GUITAR SHRED VIRTUOSO!
“The Great Kat: Guitar Heroine, Speed Metal Queen, Juilliard graduate, and one of the world’s fastest guitarists. Besides her insanely quick playing, her trademark is that she loves to play classic pieces on her guitar. She’s also quite terrifying.” – Jason MacIsaac, Jason.con.ca
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Please let me know if you’d like to receive a review copy of The Great Kat’s “Beethoven’s Guitar Shred” DVD.
“Beethoven’s Guitar Shred” DVD stars The Great Kat, “Top 10 Fastest Shredders Of All Time” (Guitar One Magazine)/“50 Fastest Guitarists Of All Time” (Guitar World Magazine)/ “The 100 Wildest Guitar Heroes” (Classic Rock Magazine)/“12 Greatest Female Electric Guitarists” (Elle Magazine)/Juilliard graduate violin virtuoso-turned guitar shred virtuoso, who showcases her shred guitar pyrotechnics on Classical Masterpieces (now ..Read more
