I was discussing music and guitars with my friend Taylor the other day, and he reminded me of blues musician Mississippi John Hurt (a fantastic guitarist, by the way). Listening to Hurt reminded me of a guitar I had about 8-9 years ago, a Seagull Coastline Grand. The Coastline Grand is a parlor-sized guitar. If you're not familiar with parlor guitars, they have a much smaller … [Read more...]
Joe Satriani – Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock
Tomorrow, April 1, marks the release of Joe Satriani's new album, Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock. As I mentioned last week, Joe has been releasing a podcast a day for the past week or so with samples of each song from the new album. The last podcast was released today, and now all podcasts are available online. I've listened to each of the podcasts, and I … [Read more...]
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It's been a beautiful weekend here in Nashville, if a little cold. Happy Easter! Artist News Joe Satriani Podcast - Joe Satriani is doing a daily podcast featuring a song off his album for each day until the release of the album on April 1 Vox Satchurator - Speaking of Joe Satriani...details of his first pedal collaboration with Vox have been released. You can view a … [Read more...]
Introducing FretQuiz!
UPDATE: I've currently taken FretQuiz off the market. However, a new version of FretQuiz will be available at some point in the future. Thanks for your interest. One of the most important things you can do to improve as a guitar player is to learn all of the notes on the fretboard and where each note is located. To that end, I'm extremely excited to announce the release of … [Read more...]
Four Questions
A local sports talk radio station has a weekly segment they call "Four Questions," where they ask four interesting (and sometimes silly) questions, ostensibly about sports, but also about general culture. I thought that might make for a fun idea for this site, so here are four guitar-related questions: 1. If you had to give up the guitar in favor of another instrument, what … [Read more...]