RSS Feed

Guitar Player Guide – how to name your band

November 29th, 2010 by admin in Blues Guitar

Guitar Player Guide – how to name your band

I am not sure about you and other people but for me, naming your band is probably one of the most difficult things to do. not that you couldn’t come up with a name, it’s more like you could come up with too many names that you get too confused in which would you choose as your band name.  If you are really serious with your stuff as a band, you need to come up with a name. Your band name is your legacy, something that people would remember forever, if you are good enough. So here’s how to come up with a band name.

Guitar Player Guide – how to name your band (Tips)

First, write down all the band names that you can come up with. It doesn’t matter if its cheesy or not that good, just right it down. It would be great if all your band members would participate in this. Once you have finished writing all of it down, it’s time for some elimination. Eliminate those band names that you don’t like. It is important that you should come up with an agreement on which names would make it and which names wont. After that, when only three or four is left, you do some voting. The name with the highest votes would be your band name.

Guitar Player Guide – how to name your band (conclusion)

Remember, if you are planning to go global with your band, you should settle down with a band name that is not similar with any other world class act. You can’t name your band Metallica that is pretty obvious. The risks that you are facing if you do that is law suits and stuff and that is not good. Guitar Player Guide.


The Neck Part of the Guitar

September 6th, 2010 by admin in Blues Guitar

If you really want to master the guitar, you must start at the lowest level and then go up in a gradual tempo. The basic things you need to know about the guitar is its guitar parts. It is essential that you learn the parts of your guitar as well as its functions for you to be able to determine which part should be configured or replaced with another part variant to make your guitar playing more comfortable or to get that exact tone that you wanted to produce. So if you want to learn more about this subject matter, I have just the right amount of information that you need to know about a certain guitar part called the neck. It is the most important part of the guitar in  which it is the basis of the note that you want to play.

The guitar neck is consisted of the fretboard, fret marks, fret bar and the neck itself. Some are single – piece and is usually made of maple wood. There are also two – piece necks, which are pretty common. The back part made of maple and the fretboard made of rosewood. This is where you touch the strings to create a certain note.


Sweep picking

August 27th, 2010 by admin in Blues Guitar

Here is a guitar technique that if mastered, would allow you to hit a flurry of notes in one whip. You can’t possibly do this with alternate picking. This would allow you to play two or more notes in a string adjacent to each other, using one sweeping motion, whether downwards or upwards. So if you want to learn more about this subject matter, there is only one method that I could suggest: read this post. Yes, simply read this. That is if you want to avoid the trouble of Google – ing it and ending up on a paid website that won’t allow you to see anything unless you pay for it. Save yourself from that trouble and read his post. And by the time you finish reading it, you would become informed about it and you will have the tools necessary to practice it.

For example, you have to do an arpeggio on three notes on three adjacent strings. Now, this is the perfect situation in which you could use sweep picking. Instead of picking it one by one or doing alternate picking on their behinds, you could sweep your way down to that three notes. The result, faster note picking.


Creative juices

August 20th, 2010 by admin in Blues Guitar

When I joined my first serious band, I had these thought on my head. I wanted to get band mates who are in the same frequency as me. I want my band mates to be overflowing with creative juices so that songwriting or riff making would be an effortless thing. And indeed, I wasn’t disappointed at all. All five of us were overflowing with it, to the point that we created 5 songs in a week. Anyway, those days were gone, we’ve went our own separate ways now.

What are creative juices? It’s just a term used for overflowing creativity or creativity itself. If you have these present within your group, songwriting is not a problem. You could come up with dozens of songs in any given time as long as you have this. But a thing to consider, skills are also necessary. What’s the use of having all of these creative juices if you don’t have the right amount of skill to execute them? It would all be useless. That is why, for beginner guitar players, start with learning your basic guitar lessons before you move on to bigger things like songwriting. Most songs are riff – based and you possibly cannot create awesome riffs without skill.


Pink Floyd lyrics

August 13th, 2010 by admin in Blues Guitar

Roger Waters, the bass player, singer and songwriter for pink Floyd recently gave the Canadian band permission to record again the song Another Brick In The Wall, part two way the different lyrics.  This was a according to the Associated Press.  Blurred vision Toronto, Canada as originally wanted to direct their version of the pink Floyd single two young Iranians.  They want to make it like an anthem for those youth.  The lines that they are going to change are the most famous one, “Hey, Teacher!” to “Hey, Ayatollah, leave those kids alone!”

The band blurred vision is led by two brothers. Sepp and Sohl are from Iran and were exiles.  They were forced to keep their last names away from the public because they’re afraid that family and members or still back there in their country would retaliate when they hear it.  For your information, rock music is it illegal in Iran.  Talk about boring.

When interviewed, Waters said that he would willingly support any one who is fighting against oppression.  He thinks that the band blared fish and place a big role of that resistance to arranging that is both we repressive and brutal.  That was so nice of him.