Online Songwriting Chord Progression Generator. Bob Brozman Guitar Lesson: Slide Guitar Basics - Developing Clean Technique. While the majority of slide manuals deal with playing songs and blues licks, few devote a large amount of text to developing the technical facility necessary to play noiselessly with optimal tone.
Bob Brozman's recommendations and exercises will go a long way toward filling this gap. And although Basic Slide is geared for guitarists who hold the instrument in the conventional manner, lap-style dobroists and Hawaiian steel players can also benefit from its instruction and advice. ALMOST EVERY GUITARIST I HAVE met has been fascinated by the sound of bottleneck slide. However, to many players the techniques involved with this unique style remain a mystery. The following guidelines and exercises are essential in developing the ability to execute clean, accurate, and agile phrases with the slide, and will help you avoid the inefficient method of trial and error. Why Play Bottleneck? With the exception of string bending, there is no other way to play the notes "between" the frets.
Long jumps. Quick Tips: Revelations in Recording & Mixing. The ability to record and mix music is no doubt a skill and an art form.
Developing it takes time, and requires many “failures,” experiments and learning experiences. To truly succeed and excel — in anything really — you have to have a hunger to sift through absorb the infinite amount of knowledge that’s out there. I wanted to give you some quick knowledge nuggets I received in response to a question I posed on an audio engineering forum (which shall remain nameless because I hate it). I asked them: “What’s your most memorable ‘a-ha’ moment in learning to mix and record?” It’s difficult to pinpoint one single ‘a-ha’ moment, as many of us have them all the time — but that’s a beautiful thing. Regardless, I think some of us have a couple that really stand out. Below is a collection of what I thought were some interesting responses to the question.
“The moment i realized that there’s a big difference between knowing something and actually getting it.” Band Leading 101 - Rehearsal. Untitled. Mos Dub - 01 - Johnny Too Beef by Max Tannone. Architecture Unit 5. Polygons, Tilings, & Sacred Geometry Slide 5-1: Pompeii pavement Calter photo In the last unit, Number Symbolism, we saw that in the ancient world certain numbers had symbolic meaning, aside from their ordinary use for counting or calculating.
In this unit we'll show that the plane figures, the polygons, triangles, squares, hexagons, and so forth, were related to the numbers (three and the triangle, for example), were thought of in a similar way, and in fact, carried even more emotional baggage than the numbers themselves, because they were visual. This takes us into the realm of Sacred Geometry. For now we'll do the polygons directly related to the Pythagoreans; the equilateral triangle (Sacred tetractys), hexagon, triangular numbers, and pentagram. Polygons Slide 5-23: Design at Pompeii Calter photo In the last unit, Number Symbolism we saw that in the ancient world certain numbers had symbolic meaning, aside from their ordinary use for counting or calculating.
Regular Polygons Polygons vs. Art 1. Optical Design. How to Write a Novel Using the Snowflake Method. Melancholy is not enough. Melancholy is not enough Posted by Morrison Conway on December 16, 2011 · 1 Comment Andrea Galvani is a young Italian photographer who also works as a professor at the Academia Carrara di Belle Arti di Bergamo.
He spends his time living and working in both Milan and New York and takes wonderfully minimal and surreal photographs. Like this: Like Loading... Into the surreal. Into the surreal Posted by Morrison Conway on November 10, 2011 · 22 Comments Moscow-based artist Philipp Igumnov has created these fun illustrations and collages.
His artistic style walks a fine line between a melancholy dream world and ridiculous humour with each photograph containing a retro element that works to defamiliarize our notions of the past. Enjoy!
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