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Leeds College of Music Announces Professional Development Courses

Leeds College of Music Announces Professional Development Courses

Posted May 29, 2012 at 3:10 am | No comments

Leeds College of Music (UK) is continuing to further its Personal and Professional Development strand this summer with a range of short courses, weekend workshops and summer schools. Confirmed courses include a Weekend Singers course in June under the direction of Peter Knapp, a unique opportunity to enjoy a short, intensive period of the very best training in the disciplines of Opera and Musical Theatre singing.

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PRS Guitars Announces “Lefty” Custom 24 Limited Edition

PRS Guitars Announces “Lefty” Custom 24 Limited Edition

Posted May 18, 2012 at 9:59 am | No comments

For a limited time only, PRS Guitars’ flagship model – the Custom 24 – will be available to order as a left-handed instrument. A perennial favorite with musicians, such as Orianthi, Tom Johnston of the Doobie Brothers, and Brad Delson of Linkin Park, the Custom 24 is the original PRS…the guitar Paul Smith took to his first tradeshow in 1985. This limited edition model will give left-handed players the opportunity to own a guitar that is musical, reliable, versatile, and eminently PRS.

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Jamie Holroyd Launches A New Jazz Guitar Resource Website

Jamie Holroyd Launches A New Jazz Guitar Resource Website

Posted May 13, 2012 at 6:34 am | No comments

In April 2012 launched Jamie Holroyd Guitar, an online teaching website aimed at providing high quality jazz guitar lessons to students across the globe. Although the site has only being online just under one month it has already received more than 2,000 visits from over 60 different countries and just fewer than 200 email subscribers. Jamie Holroyd has written most of the articles, but the site has featured guest posts from acclaimed jazz educator and author Matt Warnock and Just Jazz Guitar contributor Sam Smiley.

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Mark Tremonti Storms the Top 10 on iTunes Rock Singles Chart with You Waste Your Time

Mark Tremonti Storms the Top 10 on iTunes Rock Singles Chart with You Waste Your Time

Posted May 9, 2012 at 6:04 pm | No comments

PFA Media says that in a chart dominated by voices from NBC’s smash television show The Voice, a new voice has found his way in to the Top 10 on the iTunes Rock Singles Chart.

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Julien’s Auctions and the Les Paul Foundation Announce More Memorabilia and Events for Estate of Les Paul Auction

Julien’s Auctions and the Les Paul Foundation Announce More Memorabilia and Events for Estate of Les Paul Auction

Posted May 8, 2012 at 2:56 pm | No comments

Julien’s Auctions, the world’s premier entertainment and celebrity estate auction house and the Les Paul Foundation have partnered for an auction of extraordinary property and collection of guitars, equipment, musical artifacts and personal effects from the legendary musician, engineer and inventor Les Paul. The auction event will take place on June 8-10, 2012 in honor of what would have been Paul’s 97th birthday.

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A Guitar Song Lesson to Learn Scales and Chords in Depth

A Guitar Song Lesson to Learn Scales and Chords in Depth

Posted May 8, 2012 at 11:49 am | No comments

This is a pretty easy song for beginners and a good song/exercise for learning and improving chord strumming on guitar.

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Neil Young & Crazy Horse Release Americana on June 5th

Neil Young & Crazy Horse Release Americana on June 5th

Posted May 7, 2012 at 5:46 pm | No comments

Neil Young & Crazy Horse will release a very special album titled Americana on June 5, 2012. Americana the first album from Neil Young & Crazy Horse in nearly nine years. Crazy Horse is: Billy Talbot, Ralph Molina, Poncho Sampedro, and Neil Young.

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Paul Thorn’s New album, What the Hell is Going On? Ships May 8

Paul Thorn’s New album, What the Hell is Going On? Ships May 8

Posted May 7, 2012 at 4:31 am | No comments

Paul Thorn will celebrate his new album What the Hell Is Goin’ On? (Perpetual Obscurity/Thirty Tigers, May 8) with a live webcast on StageIt.com (performance portal at http://bit.ly/IGYBI8) on Tuesday, May 8 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.

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40 Guitar Techniques Solo Released: A Truly Unique Guitar Solo

40 Guitar Techniques Solo Released: A Truly Unique Guitar Solo

Posted May 3, 2012 at 6:16 pm | No comments

How many guitar techniques are out there? That is the question we asked ourselves. But then it struck us that the question isn’t really relevant – it’s like asking “how many words exist in the world”. What counts is how you use your vocabulary – so that you can form strong and relevant sentences.

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Lee Ritenour Debut Blu-Ray Overtime due June 19 from Eagle Rock Entertainment

Lee Ritenour Debut Blu-Ray Overtime due June 19 from Eagle Rock Entertainment

Posted May 2, 2012 at 3:39 pm | No comments

Eagle Rock Entertainment, the world’s leader in visual music, will add to that reputation when it releases Grammy Award-winning multi-genre guitarist Lee Ritenour’s debut Blu-Ray, Overtime on June 19.

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