If you’re a guitarist, and if you hope to learn and play popular music, you need to get your hands on the fantastic Tascam CDGT2 Guitar Trainer. The CDGT2 is a magnificent piece of machinery crafted to help give you the best, and biggest, confidence boost in your young and maturing playing performance.
I have reviewed a lot of amps. Some of them cost a thousand dollars. Some of them were only a few hundred to own. When I saw the VOX Valvetronix VT15 on sale over the weekend for around $150.00USD, I had to leap into the fray and pay me my money down.
In 2005, The Mountain Goats released an emotionally rich album called “The Sunset Tree.” The entire album was full of references to John Darnielle’s painful childhood and the years of abuse from his late stepfather. Around the same time that this album was released, The Mountain Goats released a vinyl only alternate version called “Come, come to the Sunset Tree” that had stripped down songs that were just John with his acoustic guitar.
Diction not only includes patterns of speech, Diction can also mean the lack of a spoken word: Silence. Silence is a frequently overlooked, but powerful, meme to employ in an effective life stage performance.
I have one hard rule about lyric writing: Use the Singular form over the Plural in every instance. “Boy” is better than “Boys” and “Snake” is better than “Snakes” and “Love” is better than “Loves.”
If you play the electric guitar, you likely have a stompbox or two — a “stompbox” is an electronic device that sits between your guitar and your amp to change the sound of your guitar in dramatic and subtle ways — and I have a whole drawerful of stompboxes that I bought, tried, and put away in my drawer.
If you’re a fan of The Blues, there are two books that must be found on your bookshelf. The first is Tom Wheeler’s excellent book — “The Soul of Tone” — that celebrates 60 years of Fender Amps.
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