Rock Gods: Forty Years of Rock Photography Book Review
Review of Robert M. Knight’s book featuring many amazing photographs of some of the biggest names in rock history such as Slash, Jeff Beck and others.
Review of Robert M. Knight’s book featuring many amazing photographs of some of the biggest names in rock history such as Slash, Jeff Beck and others.
Here we go again, with our second session of Take Five, where we talk about music that we have hanging around. We select five albums, DVDs, books or other media and let you know what we think of them in short bursts that you should be able to read in five minutes or less – so, “take five” and check out at least one of our quick reviews.
Having a strong grasp of right and left hand technique, as well as a fundamental understanding of the building blocks of music, chords-scales-arpeggios, is an essential ingredient in the development of any successful guitarist. In itself, the guitar is an innately technical instrument. One that is built on shapes (chord grips, scale patterns etc.), and that lends itself to the in-depth study of countless scale permutations, finger gymnastics and other technical aerobics.
Review of Badi Assad and Paulinho Garcia’s performance at the 2010 Chicago Guitar Festival.
This amazing concept album, All’s Well That Ends Well, a panoramic vision, was written, produced, and crafted by the incomparable, Steve Lukather.
As we continue with our series dealing with practice techniques that require no physical practice, we will cover a technique in this installment that I myself using to this day. This invaluable practice technique is called Fretboard Visualization.
Breakdown of five new albums that are worth checking out for a weekend listen.
Let’s say that most of us don’t have three hours a day to practice (I’m sure I would much rather be doing that than most anything else!). There are times when there’s just not enough time to devote to physical practice. In this series of articles I will discuss different ways of musical practice that don’t have to be done at home or in a studio.
Cry Tough is the latest DVD release by Nils Lofgren and is a collection of performances he did for the famous Rockpalast TV series. This DVD features live full length performances which span three different phases in this illustrious and dynamic career.
Video rundown of each of the new guitars and amps debuted at the 2010 Experience PRS event.
