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Were nearing the end of the winter, this means the end of the cold weather, and the beginning of springtime and the of warmer temperatures it brings.
This is a great time to start up the barbecue, invite some of your along with their electric guitar packages and set up outside. Playing outside your sound is swallowed up by the outdoors so it’s a great time for you to crank up your guitar amplifier to see what it’s made of.
When your playing in your living room or even your basement the sound travels and you have a tendency to hold back, but playing outside all bets are off, you and your friends can crank up the volume and really have some fun.
If the weather is overcast or is raining try setting up in your garage with the doors open, you’ll not only impress yourself with your sound, you will also impress your neighbors and who knows you might even be asked to play at their barbecues.
You don’t have to be the best guitarist in the world to be in a band. Being in a band doesn’t mean you have to play gigs either.
Starting a band is really quite simple, find a couple of people with their own electric guitar packages, get a bass player with his own bass guitar package, get yourself a drummer and you have yourself a band. If you know someone who plays keyboards invite them to sit in.
As far as what songs to play what I did with my first band is everyone in the band contributed with song and styles that they were into, we didn’t even have sheet music, one person would know the chords and yell them out as we went along. As we went on when someone came in with an idea for a song at the end of practice we would make the announcement learn this song by the next time we meet. At the nest session we would play the song, it needed some polish but for the most part the system we had worked.
The biggest thing to remember when forming a band is to have fun with it, your not doing it as a profession. One other thing is, it’s alright to make mistakes, it’s things like that that will make you better as you go on.
Usually buying gifts for my twin boys is a challenging task; they always want something different from their sibling, which creates quarrels over who was shown favoritism during the holidays. This Christmas, however, they both wanted the same thing: a new guitar. The boys are enamored with their Guitar Hero video game and wanted to try their hand at the real thing.
Admittedly, I know very little about guitars and what accessories are necessary. Luckily for me, I was able to find a website that sold comprehensive guitar packages that included everything that the boys needed to get started. The package had it all, from a quality instrument and amp to tuning equipment.
For your first purchase you bought a stratocaster electric guitar package with a 10 watt amplifier, you have had it for some time, you practice and play often and have decided you would like to get another guitar. You really have quite a few choices, you can purchase another strat guitar, telecaster style guitar, Les Paul style guitar, or even one of the jazz style guitars, and don’t rule out an acoustic guitar.
All the guitars mentioned above will play and sound different from your first strat. But why not take it to another level, instead of buying just another guitar consider picking up another electric guitar package. With your first purchase being a package with a 10 watt amp think about electric guitar packages with a 20 watt amplifier for your next purchase.
By having a second package with a 20 watt guitar amplifier you not only have a guitar with a different sound, you will also be able to use one amplifier as a preamp feeding the other amplifier giving you a greater range of sound possibilities. Don’t forget the other extras you also get when buying a package.
AC/DC is a hard rock band with a terrific lead singer in Brian Johnson along with one of the best recognized guitarists on the planet Angus Young. Brian Johnson actually took over as the bands frontman after Bon Scott at the age of 33 was found dead of alcohol poisoning in 1980.
Angus Young is one of the co-founders of the group along with his brother Malcolm. The electric guitar package you always see Angus with is his signature Gibson SG electric guitar along with his Marshall model 1959 100 watt guitar amplifier. Along with his wild style of playing you can also see him parading back and forth across the stage wearing his signature schoolboys outfit. His patented duck walk and his high energy style has made him the guitarist that is most often copied by such groups as Guns N’ Roses, Metallica, the Cult and others.
This article is to pay tribute to the behind the scene people who make the concerts you see possible. Roadie is the broad term used to describe those people who do everything involved except the performance itself. When you think of a roadie you think of someone who sets up amplifiers and electric guitars but if you look closer you’ll find they do much more.
Under the umbrella of a roadie you’ll find guitar techs, bass guitar techs, keyboard techs, lighting techs, tour managers, and even techs in the use of fireworks, there are many other titles Most bands give credit to their roadies with a few word on the jacket cover of an album, but their has been some exceptions.
Jackson Browne pays tribute to his roadies with the closing song of every show “The Load Out, Todd Rundgren had roadie Jan Alejandro play piano with him and the band on a song John Marshall a guitar tech for Metallica has replaced James Hetfield the bands rhythm guitarist on several occasions.
Living in Seattle, I have grown up immersed and infatuated with the grunge rock music scene. With the Experience Music Project chronicling the emergence of bands like Mudhoney, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden and, of course, Nirvana, it is hard not to be. EXP not only features memorabilia and artifacts from these pioneers of grunge music, but has relics from other native Seattleites, such as Jimi Hendrix and Heart, too.
One of my favorite attractions at the rock museum is the remnants of instruments that the grunge bands mercilessly destroyed on stage. I particularly remember one amusing anecdote centering on Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. After a particularly rowdy show he smashed his guitar violently on the ground. As this was prior to the band’s bends-inducing rush to stardom and financial success, Cobain was forced to bandage the mangled guitar for the performance the next night-he may have been better served to just search around for some cheap electric guitars to smashup.
There is several elements that go into Rock and Roll, you’ve got to have a good beat supplied by a drummer, you need good rhythym from an electric guitar, and you need a driving beat that’s delivered by an bass guitar. Some bands rely on someone that either dresses in a unique fashion or has a personality that is above others, or has a talent to captivate an audience, that man or woman is called a frontman or front-woman.
Here are some of the very best in the business that I have thought of: For me the top frontman of all time was Freddie Mercury, while he had the guitar of Brian May in back of him he was the one that held his audiences in the palm of his hand. His live performances are among the very best of all times. You can’t talk frontmen without mentioning Mick Jagger, noone sold rock and roll like he did, he invented struting around the stage with the mic in his hand as so many do today. There was Debbie Harry with Blondie, as well as Janis Joplin fronting Big Brother and the Holding Company, she was a tiny girl with a powerful voice that would leave you shivering.
Do you play an acoustic guitar, or perhaps it’s an electric guitar, or even a bass guitar that is a solid color? Did you know that underneath that laquer color your guitar is really made of wood?
Besides owning an on line music store I also have my own furniture and cabinet shop on my property in South Carolina, so my facination with wood goes beyond the creations I build in my shop.
All woods react differently to sounds, hard woods have more sustain and therfore give up a brighter sound while soft woods have less sustain but but at the same time give you more mid-range tone and a fuller sound. Some of the woods used in guitar making are Ash, Mahogany, Alder, Bass, and sometimes you will find a maple veneer over mahogany, this gives you the sound from the Mahogany along with the beauty of the Maple which can be either straight grained, quilted or what they call a tiger maple. Quilted Maple or Tiger Maple occurs in the tree when it is growing, most times it happens when the tree is diseased, these types of wood are highly sought out by furniture makers because of their highly figured look, and when you take that look and apply it to a guitar you really have something special.
The Yardbirds were a triad of electric guitars in the height of the British Invasion in the mid 1960’s. The three guitarists were Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck. Eric Clapton is #4, Jimmy Page #9, and Jeff Beck is #14 in Rolling Stones Top 100 Guitarists list.
In the 2009 Hall of Fame Concert Jeff Beck armed with his signature Fender Stratocaster electric guitar showed why he is a great guitarist. He played several solos along with “People Get Ready” with Sting on bass guitar. His style and technique is what makes him so great, “it’s all in his hands” said Eric Clapton.
Along with his Stratocaster he sometimes used a Fender Telecaster guitar as well as a Gibson Les Paul electric guitar, his electric guitar packages consist of amplifiers by Fender and Marshall.