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Organizing Your Practice | Lessons. E|-----Daniel----------------------------------- B|-------------Kaczmarczyk---------------------- G|--------------------------Guitar-------------- D|----------------------------------Lessons----- A|---------------------------------------------- E|-----------Organizing-your-practice----------- There are many practice routines roaming over the internet, with examples like SteveVai's 30-hour practice routine, or any other "ready to use" regimes that have every minute of practice explained and organized. Problem is that there is no universal way to practice that fits every one of you, and you should be able to make your own routine by yourself. A good one. What is a good practice routine? The answer is simple. Yours. Shielding a Strat(tm) This modification does not alter the appearance of your guitar.Last updated 1-3-2004 What some people have said after shielding their guitars. Introduction Most guitars with single-coil pickups suffer to some degree from hum.

Almost all are much noisier than they need to be, because the manufacturers don't bother to shield them well and don't follow simple electronic wiring principles that have been known for decades. This holds true even for many premium guitars costing thousands of dollars. These instructions apply primarily to guitars with regular magnetic pickups. Many guitars with single-coil pickups will benefit noticeably from shielding and star-grounding as described here. These step-by-step instructions and illustrations are for Stratocaster™ type guitars but the principles and techniques can be applied to any guitar.

Probably the greatest benefit of reducing hum is the accompanying increase in sustain and dynamic range. Principles and Practices Skills Needed Tools Needed. The “Hot-Lamp" speaker-simulator. Although there exist excellent, digital amplifier, speaker and cabinet simulation products for home recording, I suspect many guitarists - like myself - want to try to capture the sound that we realise playing live. I have long noted that guitar amplifiers driven hard in a late-night "gig" environment take on a particular sound which I might describe as "smooth and coherent" - a sound which appears difficult to “pull-off” in the home studio. What causes this "smooth" sound (other than alcohol-based altered-perceptions)?

It is almost certainly due to various compression effects; the most likely being depression of the amplifier HT rails under extreme load, and power-compression due to the heating of the loudspeaker voice-coil. Naturally, the possibility always exists of miking the guitar cabinet directly in the studio and driving the amplifier really hard. The circuit for the "Hot Lamp" speaker-simulator is given in figure 1. Rock n' roll sampleJazz sample 1.

Richard Brice - January 2006. Tweeking pot's and 3 very common treble bleed modifications. Not Playing Guitar. Trade Secrets! Newsletter at Stewart-MacDonald. Easy Epiphone Serial Numbers Guide | My Guitar Guide. 50 ways to become a better guitarist | 50 ways to become a better guitarist. 2012 is just hours old, and there's no better time to make up for a festive period full of excess and over-indulgence by making a start on a new year voyage of self improvement. We don't mean exercising more, eating less or quitting smoking - although you should probably think about doing those things too. What we're talking about is taking the kind of action that might just lead to a life of fame, fortune, excess and erm... over-indulgence, intervention and rehab. That's right - we're here with 50 nuggets of advice, all designed to hone your rusty six-string skills until your playing is sharper than a school of piranha on kitten-back.

So, without further ado, from the Guitar-obsessed brains of Guitarist magazine and a host of rock star contributors, here are 50 sure-fire ways to become a better guitarist... click onwards! Rudimentary Drills | Guitar Lesson. Improving Your Guitar Phrasing: part 3 - Cyberfret.com. Welcome back to part 3 of my series on improving your lead guitar phrasing. In part 1 and part 2 we explored what phrasing is and why it is important for you to develop on your path to fully expressing yourself on the instrument. We last looked at the famous “Panama” solo by Eddie Van Halen as a prime example of all the great phrasing concepts we’ve been discussing. Now it’s time to stop talking and start working with some real musical examples.

In this 3rd article we are going to focus on legato phrasing. We’ll start with our old friend the minor pentatonic scale. Example 1: (editor note: I had to squish these graphics a little horizontally to fit on the website, Nick's graphics from his course are not like this.) Here is a more adventurous phrase using a different position of the A minor pentatonic scale with the flatted 5th thrown in for a little extra legato “grease.” Example 2: Example 3: This example is a long descending phrase in which only the first note is picked! Example 4: Sounding unwanted strings while soloing - GeekChat! Problem with unwanted noise when playing fast licks w/ distortion - iBreatheMusic Forums. .: Guitar effect patches for zoom G2 and G2.1u :. The Guitarist's Online Survival Kit (GOSK)