Recently, several other bloggers have mentioned the Web site GuitarInstructor.com. If you're not familiar with GuitarInstructor.com, as its name implies, it is a guitar instruction site. What makes the site fairly unique is that it features video lessons by guitar legends, such as Eric Johnson, Keb Mo', John 5, and others. You can purchase videos a la carte, which I think is a … [Read more...]
Lenny Kravitz – It Is Time For A Love Revolution
I recently picked up It Is Time For A Love Revolution by Lenny Kravitz, and so far I've been very impressed. I think it's the best album he's put out so far. I recently read that other than a few guitar solos and the saxophone parts, Kravitz played all of the instruments on the album. Apparently, he's done this for all of his albums, but I'd never heard about it until … [Read more...]
Incase Guitar Cases
I was recently looking for a laptop case and stumbled across a company called Incase, which makes laptop bags, iPhone and iPod cases, and, to my surprise, guitar cases. One of the distinguishing characteristics of Incase is their design; these guitar cases look very nice. In addition to their "Slim Bag" line of guitar and bass cases, which hold a single guitar or bass, they … [Read more...]
Links
It looks like the tour season is ramping up. We have quite a few good shows coming up here in Nashville. Artist News Steve Lukather Interview: Ever Changing Times... - Interview with guitarist Steve Lukather (via Rich Murray) Guitar Lessons iPerform3D - A video lesson site with a twist: 3D graphics are used for much of the videos. Not sure I like the animation, … [Read more...]
Why You Should Not Major in Music Performance
In my sophomore year of college I started taking classical guitar lessons and briefly considered switching my major to Music Performance (I was a Business Administration major). However, my college guitar instructor gave me what I believe was sage advice: don't. I was more than a little surprised when my primary interface with the Music department was steering me away from … [Read more...]