by TheFlyFifer on June 6, 2010
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 [...]
by TheFlyFifer on May 31, 2010
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 [...]
by TheFlyFifer on May 16, 2010
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 [...]
by TheFlyFifer on April 27, 2010
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 [...]
by TheFlyFifer on March 26, 2010
According to Eric Clapton, Robert Johnson was ‘the most important blues singer who ever lived’. He is number five in Rolling Stone’s list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, but the man himself is still part legend, part mystery. Almost the only concrete things we have of Robert Johnson are his recordings, made in [...]
by TheFlyFifer on March 17, 2010
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 [...]
by TheFlyFifer on January 1, 2010
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 awful lot [...]