Ends and Odds – Book Order Updates, AU LAB and more
Hey Everyone, I hope this finds you well! Just a few quick updates. Book Orders and Lessons Learned The page has been a little light on lessons (minus the 12-tone post) lately, but I’ve been busy juggling a few other things and getting the book orders out the door are amongst them. I had been … Read more
Guest post on Joe Gore/Seymour Duncan’s Tone Fiend and The Fortunate Demise Of The News Page
So, in typical GuitArchitecture “last thing first” style, the news page is gone. It seems to make more sense to just put updates about gigs, recordings, etc. here. I always forgot about the “news” aspect of the page anyway so (even with about 30 pages of updates and info in the hopper) it’s not much … Read more
Visualizing Video Game Licks Or An Intro To Symmetrical 12 Tone Guitar Patterns
Hello everyone! (For those of you on the e-mail list, we had a false start yesterday morning. It’s a gentle reminder to me to avoid working on anything before I have coffee!) I’m still planning on re-releasing my updated 12 tone pattern book this year but I thought I’d start the process a little early … Read more
A Book Update And A Look At Things To Come….
Hi all!! I’m back from vacation and geared up hit the ground running! In regards to the books, I’m currently working on cleaning up some graphics issues with them. The good news is that the pdf files look A LOT better (and with less typos – thanks to Doug Kearns!!) – the bad news is that … Read more
2012: How Not To Repeat The Mistakes Of The Past (Or Nothing Ever Got Done With An Excuse)
(This is a repost of something I wrote for the end of 2010. The dates and information have been updated, and I suspect this will be one of the few yearly repost traditions I indulge in.) . I had hoped to get a few more things done before the end of the year, but decided instead … Read more
A Holiday Thought That May Help The Whole Year
If web traffic is any indicator, I should be writing more about guitar shops in Vietnam, 8 string guitars (and pickups) and Philip Glass arpeggios which comprise the top 3 Google searches for my blog. (With absolutely no disrespect to Mr. Glass, I never would have dreamed that there are thousands of people in the … Read more
Creating Chords And Lines From Any Scale – A Harmonic Combinatorics / Spread Voicings Lesson
Hello everyone! . I wanted to post a lesson up that uses one of my approaches to harmonizing scales from my Harmonic Combinatorics book. It’s a cool way to not only get away from stock voicings but also to generate new lines as well! I’m using C Major as the tonal center for this lesson … Read more
On Talent, Tenacity and Self-Definition
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. . There was this guy. He went to college and (though his major was psychology), everyone thought he was funny. So after school (in 1984) he goes back to New York. He works a series of jobs (admin jobs, catering gigs and bartending among them) to support … Read more
Augment Your Knowledge: Sonic Shapes and Getting More From Augmented Chords
Hi everyone! . I wanted to post a lesson that uses some of the material from my Positional Exploration book in a way that I didn’t get to cover in the text itself. Back in November when Guitar-Muse posted the second part of my interview with Rob Balducci, Rob brought up a process he called … Read more
