Loading ...The Ebow is a very popular electromagnetic device used to create infinite sustain on steel stringed musical instruments. It has been commercially available since the 1970s, and has been featured on thousands of recordings. The most primitive Ebow technique involves sustaining a single string while changing its pitch by altering the left hand fretting position. The advantage to this approach [...]
The age old argument is does mass equal sustain? I’ve read fantastic reasoning for both sides. Why don’t I just fill my acoustic with cement and find out? Wow that would make a fun blog! In the meantime, I will take a more logical step and review the new Fatfinger by Fender. The Fatfinger is a weighted clamp that you [...]
Young students often ask me why they need to practice this material. I always reply “because you’re a sum of all your parts”. Imagine if you will a car company that only focuses on transmissions. Well, what about the rest of the car? You wouldn’t get very far on just a transmission alone. In today’s age of music, you need [...]
Okay, you’ve made up your mind to learn an instrument. You’ve bought a guitar/drums/keyboard/bass/trumpet, or whatever instrument you’ve fallen in love with, and you’ve signed up for lessons. Now what? Time to start a practice routine. When you join a sports team, it’s imperative to practice regularly. You’re trying to train your muscles to perform duties that may not be [...]
Hi everyone, and thanks for tuning in today. In this video I demonstrate ways that drummers can embellish their grooves, or change styles within the same groove. Often times drummers get stuck thinking that one way may be the only way, and these examples could guide you towards opening the doors to new opportunities. I demonstrate one groove several different [...]
As we’ve been covering barre chords in previous articles, Here’s a way to memorize the notes of the A string, so we can identify the barre chords all over the neck. First, we’ll come up with a “Fifth String Tune”. Memorize the following pattern of notes, taking care to notice where your fingers fall in relation to the dots on [...]
Just like I would want to taste and know every ingredient I would use in my favorite chili recipe, I like to know what I play in my bass lines. It could be chord tones, scale notes, passing chromatics. All of these things are helpful in being able to identify. Why? These are our tools. Guitarists have chords (which I [...]
I could start this review off writing how no one has free time, but you don’t have the time to read it! Most of us don’t have the luxury of locking ourselves in a room for 4 hours at a time to practice, so we grab 5, 10, 15 minutes here and there to learn new tunes and keep our [...]
As we’ve been covering barre chords in previous articles, it seems fairly imperative to figure out what the notes of the E, A, and D strings are, so we can identify the barre chords all over the neck. Let’s start with an easy way to memorize the notes of the E string. First, we’ll come up with a “Sixth String [...]
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