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
The GuitArchitecture (post) Holiday Book Bundle Sale is Done!!
02/09/12 . Thanks to everyone who ordered preliminary copies of the GuitArchitecture Books!! The official versions have been released in print and PDF versions so the sale is now over! I’m leaving the page here for historical purposes, but all book orders are now handled by LULU.com. . For the rest of the month of January … Read more
Mas Modeling!! POD Farm, POD HD, Scuffham Amps And A Whole Tone lick
Computers, and models and amp sims – OH MY! . There’s been a lot of interest in the posts on this site regarding modeling, POD Farm and POD HD. When I made my initial post about this, I didn’t have the 2 units to compare, but I do now and here are my thoughts. . … Read more
