Guitar International’s new ebook release, Successful Press Release Strategies for the Working Musician, will help you understand the ins and outs of press releases and how media outlets, meaning editors and other journalists, view a barrage of press releases and what drives them to publish some and toss the others?
Envision in your mind’s eye a stage that resembles a demented Santa’s workshop straight from Hell, a pants-less Santa Claus, several wicked snow blowing elves, and three sexy girls pulling Dee on a hot rodded sleigh. Sound like a Christmas fairy tale? Not quite, more like the Twisted Christmas Spectacular at the Best Buy Theater in New York City!
According to a press release, C. F. Martin & Co. is bringing exciting new instruments to the 2012 Winter NAMM convention in Anaheim, CA this January. The legendary acoustic guitar company is unveiling 15 innovative guitars and ukuleles that will bolster the brand’s already premiere line of stringed instruments.
Guitarist and educator Matt Warnock has recently announced that he will be giving away his new eBook “5 Essential Jazz Guitar Scale Techniques” to readers who sign up to his free weekly newsletter. Readers will also get a free copy of his previous eBook, “10 Essential ii-V-I Licks for Jazz Guitar,” when they sign up to the newsletter, which goes out every Monday at 6am EST.
In this installment, we’ll take a closer look at the head region in a little more detail. While it is not the emphasis of this work to explain all the subtleties and nuances of the physics behind the working acoustic guitar, this series can help one get more familiar with much of the anatomical features of a common acoustic guitar.
PRS Guitars is teaming up with In Tune Monthly magazine and Guitar Center to complement a 2012 official partnership with GRAND-AM Road Racing. 2012 marks the third year that PRS has partnered with GRAND-AM Road Racing’s Rolex Sports Car Series by providing race-winning teams with unique trophy guitars. This season, PRS is also partnering with Guitar Center and In Tune Monthly to host rockin’ and rollin’ pre-race Guitar Center/PRS Fan Days in select locations.
According to a December 12, 2011 PRS Guitars press release, the company will be partnering with GRAND-AM Road Racing for the third straight year in 2012. For the second year, PRS will again provide winners in both the Rolex Sports Car Series Daytona Prototype (DP) and Grand Touring (GT) classes with a unique trophy—a fully functional PRS SE Singlecut guitar customized with GRAND-AM and Rolex Sports Car Series logos.
The National GUITAR Museum unveiled the world’s largest fully playable multi-necked stringed instrument today as part of its permanent collection. The 8-necked guitar, the only one of its kind, will be on display through the end of the year at the Orlando Science Center in Orlando, Florida as part of an exhibit entitled “GUITAR: The Instrument That Rocked The World.”
For the first time since its inception, Knaggs Guitars, a Maryland based boutique manufacturer of high-end electric and acoustic guitars, basses and mandolins will be present on the show floor at the 2012 NAMM show in Anaheim, California.
Debra Devi, singer/guitarist for rock band DEVI and integral part of Fender’s Girl Rock Nation program, has just released a fresh new version of holiday favorite “Silent Night.” This lush indie-rock take on the oft-covered “Silent Night” features a reverb-drenched Fender Strat, Mellotron shimmers, and soaring vocals from Debra, adding her name to the long list of those who have recorded the song, including Stevie Nicks, Bing Crosby and even Boyz II Men.
