I’ve seen on twitter and other forums that guitarist (including myself) lament over [ad#125-125-floatright] the fact that they don’t have their guitar with them. Well, your lonely days are over! All you need is buy an iPhone and jailbreak it. Below, is a video of someone doing their best to play us a Beatles medley with their new guitarpod and I’m sure that you can see that our steal and nylon stringed companions won’t have to worry about getting replaced by this “Guitar Hero” for the iPhone. Anyway, I could see someone eventually getting pretty good at playing the iGuitar and will have a nice little gimmick in an act or at parties. I also see a nice little tool that could help you work out a melody that was stuck in your head or working on chords. Will this be enough for me to hack my iPhone? I think not. My iTouch….. well….. Nah. I’ll just stick to playing the real thing.
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Been working on Tommy Emmanuel stuff lately and thought I would share some of the available tab that I have tried. Some of these are pretty accurate and are almost the same as the stuff in my TE Note for Note book. Anyway, hope this helps in your quest to learn Tommy’s music. That’s a short list on the Tommy E songs I have been working on. Of those, I could probably perform Dixie, Angelina and Those Who Wait without too much trouble. I would still say they need some polishing. So if you need to Tommy E songs to work on, I hope this helps. If you can afford it, I would strongly recommend getting the “Note for Note.” Not only for the great transcriptions but there is some useful information on Tommy’s playing and his influences. Like it says in the book, you need to learn about what influenced him if you really want to play like him. Anyway, I hope this helps and if you find any good transcriptions, please leave a comment. Keep Playin’ More Tommy E song books here.
My Daughter is taking guitar lessons and she was assigned to write a little song and write it out in standard notation. I knew that I could get staff paper from the Internet in PDF or gif/jpg format but I stumbled upon a site that gave me even more options. The site that I found is www.blanksheetmusic.net. There, you can customize your staves to fit your needs. First, you start with a blank sheet and go from there. There are options to add more staves and connect them for piano or ensemble pieces and to add add tab to your project. One feature that I liked, in particular, was the ability to adjust the size of my staves. In my case, I needed to enlarge it to make it easier for her to write her piece. Once you are finished with the customization, they give you the option to save it for future use (requires registration). If you don’t need/want to customize, they have pre-configured staff paper available for you to use as well. It’s as easy as customize and print. I great resource for any songwriter.
Some of you may have noticed my Twitter update component on the right side of the blog. Some of my friends and family have asked me, “what the heck is Twitter?” I tried to explain it and they got the basic idea but still had that confused look on their face. So check out the YouTube video below which explains Twitter in “plain English” and much better than I ever could. Then give Twitter a try and maybe sign up and check out my updates.
I just purchased “The Acoustic Guitar: Adjustment, Care, Maintenance, and Repair,” (thoughts on book in upcoming posts). Mainly because I want to be able to make the necessary adjustments to my instrument without having to take it into a shop all the time. Some might want to work on their own guitar as well but others would rather give it to a professional but how can you find a good repair shop in your area? I have a new friend through Twitter who provides great help in finding such guitar repair shops. It is repairmyguitar.com, which is a searchable database of repair shops throughout the United States. All you need to do is visit the site, choose your city, state and you will be given a list of local repair shops. I would say the list is pretty decent for the areas that I looked up and I’m sure that it is growing everyday. In the future, I hope to see an option to search for luthiers. If you are looking to repair, setup or just do some standard maintenance on your guitar, check out repairmyguitar.com and find a local shop. They currently have a promotion where if you can …
