Music Education in Style
At the Aaron O’Keefe music academy the students have regular studio time, and it’s used well: Ages from 12 to 16.
Read moreYet Another Awesome Bedroom Guitarist
Awesome dude who plays all guitars and sings as well, doing a song that I wouldn’t call exactly dead simple: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErQx1bLpEIc] He’s better at playing than singing, but as a whole it’s really impressive.
Read moreAdvertisement
My Awesome Rig
In the gap between selling the apartment and the actual move almost all my stuff is packed into boxes and stowed away. This includes all my guitar gear. The X3, the Cube 30 and the stationary computer with Reaper and POD Farm are in storage. So my temporary rig: iPhone with guitar toolkit to tune […]
Read moreMany Guitarless Days
There has been a lot of focus elsewhere for a while (small details such as buying and selling apartments, for one). I haven’t touched a guitar for six weeks. I was ambushed into playing Christmas songs with a relative yesterday, and it went really badly… :-p. We only played songs I’ve never played before and […]
Read morePOD Beta Drivers for Windows 7
Line 6 have released drivers for Windows 7. The are only in beta yet, but using them the latest version of Line6 Monkey finally works. You’ll find the drivers here: http://line6.com/software/ Check the “Beta” box and select Windows 7. The correct version number (right now anyway) is 3.4.3.9. With those drivers you will no longer have […]
Read moreModes, Keys, Chords – a Lot of Theory at Once
I went to the guitar lesson yesterday pretty uninspired… I hadn’t found time to do my real homework, writing a new solo, so we didn’t really have anything planned. I was about to cancel, but decided to go anyway. It turned out a deep dive into modes with a lot of practical application! I had […]
Read moreMotivation
I have quite little motivation right now. I think I may have gone to deep into too many technique exercises and theory. It has really brought my playing to a whole new level, but I’m a bit blank when I sit down with the guitar – what do I do now? I was laboring with the […]
Read moreNew Licks Are Eating My Fingers
I got loads of Adrian licks at the lesson on Saturday. They will give me an awesome pentatonic vocabulary, but it’s obvious my fingers are used to playing other things. Now they look like this:
Read moreDIY IKEA Pedal board
Some guy at Harmony Central has built a really nice pedalboard out of IKEA parts for about €60. I would build one myself if I had any pedals :-) (the POD X3 is a pedalboard in itself). Read he whole build thread at Harmony Central (via LifeHacker via IkeaHacker).
Read more(re)Start
I’m 35 years old and quite reasonable decided I’m going to start playing guitar. I’ve been at it for two years now. I feel incredibly good at it every other day, and complete crap the other days. All posts prior to this one I’ve moved from an old blog that was just links with no […]
Read more