I've always enjoyed working with my hands, and I've had an itch for a while to build my own guitar. A friend of mine built a fretless bass using exotic wood. It was beautiful! He built it from scratch and did an excellent job for his first try. I don't have the tools I would need to build a guitar from scratch, so I'd probably need to build one from a kit or from parts if I … [Read more...]
Stevie Ray Vaughan Playing Little Wing and Third Stone From the Sun
Here's a video of Stevie Ray Vaughan playing Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing", with a small bit of "Third Stone from the Sun" thrown in. I've said before that Stevie Ray Vaughan is one of my favorite guitar players. There's just something about his playing that reaches me on an emotional level, and "Little Wing" is one of those songs that when Stevie plays it, I feel it as much as … [Read more...]
Austin Moorhead Playing Sergio Assad’s Fantasia Carioca
Classical guitarist Austin Moorhead has posted to YouTube a really nice version of him playing Sergio Assad's Fantasia Carioca, which I've embedded below. I'm a fan of Assad's guitar playing but wasn't all that familiar with his compositions. I really like Fantasia Carioca, and Moorhead plays it very well. (via Chris Davis at the Classical Guitar Blog) … [Read more...]
Design Your Own Les Paul
Frank Montag has a fun Flash application on his Web site that you can use to design your dream Les Paul. It's surprisingly fun. You can pretty much customize any feature of the guitar, including the type of top, whether to include graphics, whether to use gold or silver hardware, and just about anything else you can think of. There's little practical value to the … [Read more...]
Mark Tremonti: The Sound and the Story Instructional DVD
Fret12 has recently released Mark Tremonti: The Sound and the Story, an instructional DVD featuring former Creed and current Alter Bridge guitarist Mark Tremonti. Thanks to Fret12, I've been watching the DVD over the past few weeks and highly recommend it. Overview The DVD is divided into three parts covering three hours of content. The first part is called "The Story" … [Read more...]