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The Harp guitar is one of the most interesting variations on the standard guitar, it has a very beautiful sound and can be found in both electronic and accoustic versions.
I came across a word with an interesting sound the other day, one I hadn’t really heard before. The word was ‘retronym’.
A retronym is essentially a [...]
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What is Jazz? Ultimate performers genre? Irritation to the Ears? Read. Decide.
What does ‘jazz’ mean to you? Even the word is controversial. Where does it begin, what is it? There seems to be no clear definition. Some attempts have been made at defining jazz as as truly American art form, but this belies the influence [...]
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Many of the blues greats were penniless musicians who were later exploited by record companys and only acheived a degree of fame if they lived into old age. One notable exception is Blind Lemon Jefferson, a self-taught guitarist whose unique voice and guitar technique made him the most popular blues musician ……………………of.the 1920’s.
The stories of [...]
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What is it about jazz? There’s something sensual, slightly dangerous, artistically edgy about jazz in all it’s forms. Is it the fact that no two true jazz performances are alike? Some argue that to record jazz, to freeze those unique performances in time so they can be repeated, is heresy, and perhaps it is, but [...]
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Easy to find, just look in any music shop, web site or even ebay or craigs list. But suppose you had some money to spend and were looking to start a collection? What would be your idea of the most money anyone should spend on a guitar? You may be surprised.
How do you make something [...]
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No, this isn’t the story of Blues music on America’s highest mountain, this is the story of influential blues musician McKinley Morganfield, a virtuoso of slide guitar.
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Slide guitar is also known as bottleneck guitar because bottlenecks were the first materials used to produce the effect. Normally a guitar player varies the pitch of notes by [...]
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Guitars have in one form or another been around for thousands of years. There are paintings in Egyptian tombs showing instruments which are similar. For all those thousands of years, instrument making has been a specialised art, and the best instrument makers were students of music themselves.
In the twentieth century all that changed. A new [...]
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Welcome to RockGuitarLesson.org and thanks for making it this far. You’ve waded through a lot of stuff to get here so I won’t waste your time. Here’s the deal.
I love to play, but like most I don’t have a lot of time, and I certainly don’t have time to waste. There’s an [...]
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