Tag Archives: Lessons
Making Programmed Drums Sound Real
Even with great-sounding VST drumkits, it can be tricky to make them sound real – here are some great tips!
Read moreThe OSIRIS GUITAR Journal – a Practice Journal for iOS
Stay motivated and reach your musical goals by keeping track of you practice sessions with the OSIRIS GUITAR Journal – a practice journal app for iPhone and iPad. Log sessions with and share them on Facebook to impress your friends, as well as handy statistics and diagrams of your progress.
Read moreThe Victor Wooten Metronome Trick
Many people find it difficult to play to a metronome, compared to playing to a drum track. However, this simple but clever trick by famous bass player Victor Wooten will help you play to a metronome and increase your consistency and tightness.
Read moreA Site With a New Take on Tabs
A web site called YouTab has just been launched. It has an interesting way of enhancing guitar tabs – it scrolls them in realtime with the song (has been done before) and syncs them with a video of the song. This is potentially a great tool for learning new songs. There are a few obstacles to […]
Read moreHow to Use a Compressor – with Great Power Comes…
The compressor is one of the most powerful tools you have at your disposal when mixing your tracks. Almost all DAWs come with at least one compressor plugin. At the same time it’s probably the most misused. If you’re like me, you probably have a basic idea of what a compressor does, but no clear […]
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 moreHow Do You Get Started Playing?
I get this question a lot – how do you get started playing guitar? Learn From the Best Well, I’m clearly no expert – I didn’t really get started until I was 33. Luckily, there are numerous experts. One of the best is Justin Sandercoe, an Aussie living in London. His site, www.justinguitar.com, is one […]
Read moreSome Chord Theory
There are numerous sites and phone apps to lookup chords, but there’s still a point to knowing the theory behind how chords are constructed. And it’s really not that hard. Pick a key and start with its major scale, and then just follow the templates to which notes of the scale are used in the different kinds […]
Read moreI Made a Song
As my guitar lesson a couple of weeks ago we made a song! I brought a bunch of riff ideas to class and together with my guitar teacher I arranged them into a song. It was a real eye-opener even though the result was just a draft with a lot of cut-and-paste cheating. Since then […]
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