Click here to see the other 612,731 results.

You can select whether you want to find new or used gear as well you can also compare different prices for different instruments.

It would be a really good tool even just to research gear before you start going out to stores if you prefer to buy locally and in-person.

Feel free to add this anywhere… It’s probably the smallest guitar tuner you will ever find.

Gibson said the games, in which players press buttons on a guitar-shaped controller in time with notes on a TV screen, violates a 1999 patent for technology to simulate a musical performance.

Read the full article at Reuters.com

• A wicked live Subway Performance, I love stuff like this; so awesome to fill a public space with good music or art. A boring daily grind it out ride the subway home day becomes an experience.
• A whole bunch of tabs that are sure to be really great judging by past work from Heartwoodguitar.com - if you feel like learning a song tonight check out that list, there will likely be something you like on it.
• An interesting new device that will give you just about any tone or sound you want.
• I don’t really know what to think of this at all or even why I am linking to it.
• A really unique guitar by Ken Butler.

In the wasteland of the music business, hundreds of truckloads of CDs wind up every year in the landfill. How does this happen? For starters, the practice is to manufacture in bulk, regardless of sales viability, because it’s cheaper. If half of the units manufactured actually ship to retail, a big chunk of those — perhaps half again — may end up coming back to the warehouse anyway. ‘

Add to this pile the promotional copies, many of which don’t even exit the shrink-wrap before getting chucked in the bin by whatever totally uninterested executive or editor they’ve been sent to… Well, that’s a mountain of plastic. A recent report in the U.K. Guardian claims that one million unsold copies of Robbie Williams’ last CD Rudebox will be shipped to China to be crushed (and hopefully used for road-surfacing). Dealing with product waste like this reportedly costs EMI millions of dollars a year.

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The reason I hate Guitar Hero though is that when I subscribe to Google Alerts with the keyword Guitar - I get like 10 links to Guitar Hero Articles sent to me everyday. Things like Ex-NFL player almost dies - concerned about Guitar Hero skills, This new device is all you need to be a true Air Guitar Hero or my personal favorite The Tragic Death of the Guitar Hero.

It’s really quite ridiculous - here I am sifting through these emails to find anything of value happening on the net Guitar wise and I end up watching someone play Guitar Hero on YouTube for 10 minutes. Seriously, quit posting this stuff on YouTube, you are wasting my life.

The video that I ended up accidently watching tonight is below.

Guitar Rising was recently unveiled at the Independent Game Conference in Austin, TX. At the conference’s Game Demo Night, players - both guitar newbies and hobbyists alike - strapped on a real electric guitar and fretted and strummed their way though introductory and skilled game levels. Unlike games like Guitar Hero, where gamers use a small fake plastic guitar, this one actually requires the gamer to use a real guitar. Check out the cheesy video ad below.

• Geek quits his dayjob as a software programmer to become a rock star - A story about a former software programmer who now codes songs.
• Wish it would be on my guitar too… - Some really cool video of Les Paul from Youtube. This guy was way ahead of his time…
• The most difficult part of learning the guitar is starting it… - A post about how to approach learning guitar when you are first starting out.

If your still “old skool” like myself you can still use a web based tuner. ;)

Think about this: What music do you like? What kind of music do you want to play? Who are your favorite musicains and what type of instruments do they play on?

If you want to rock out like Nirvana or Metallica or whatever then you are going to need an electric guitar with an amplifier unless you are going to be in some weird unplugged metal band or something. Electrics are designed with low action to make left had finger movement fast and efficient. A steel stringed acoustic is much more difficult to develop the same type of mobility on.

If you are going to learn classical then you have to buy a nylon stringed classical guitar - it is easier to finger pick on because it is designed with a wider neck. Same goes for flamenco.

Some guitarists will tell beginners that they should buy a particular type of guitar because it is easier to learn on. The truth is you should buy the type of guitar that is going to bring you the most enjoyment and continue to motivate you.

Same goes for instructors and teacher. It’s alot harder to keep learning if you are playing songs that you don’t even like. If you are working with an instructor or a teacher who is a total metal head and what you really want to learn is classical guitar then you need to rethink things.

Pick your guitar type based on your musical tastes and it will be easier to stick with it. Guitar is a difficult instrument no matter what type it is - so having this extra edge of motivation will more likely take you further.

So buy whatever guitar you want - just don’t forget to play it.

And if you’ve never purchased a guitar before you may want to read this.

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Anyways strangely enough I was surfing around some totally unrelated to the Wii Google results tonight and came across this video on YouTube, that is also Wii related.

If you’d like to make a Witar you will need to get the script from here. You will also need a program called GlovePie which you can download here. I haven’t tried this myself because I don’t own a Wii, but perhaps tomorrow or some other time this week I will have to have a go at making a Witar at the office.

Apparently I am way behind the 8 ball on this one as I found a posting on Digg from 318 days ago.

You can also use the Witar to play Guitar Hero III on a PC. There are alot of other uses for the Wii and it even has it’s own Wiki as well.

Rob is a good friend of mine. And he has put an incredible amount of time and energy into his music. This is one of my favorite songs of his. Lately he’s been trying to get a band together to do some live performances and possibly go on tour. You can check out more of Crescent Heights songs and videos here.

If you enjoy this music and if your on Facebook you can also join the Crescent Heights Friend Club.

For the last year I haven’t used a guitar pick at all, because I decided to learn with my fingers; which I have gotten pretty proficient at. But the prior 13 some odd years were spent with a guitar pick.

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That is the question Radiohead is asking you. When you visit the site for their newest album In Rainbows, you decide the price you pay to download the album.

You can also order the disc box, which costs 40 pounds and includes extra material. Currently the album is only available from their website.

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Keep in mind it’s finger picked as well.

Click here for the tab to Blackbird

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All this guitar teacher is doing is using other people’s songs as a vehicle to teach music, what’s the big deal?

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Click here to visit WA’s Alternate Tunings for Guitar.

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This contest closes June 17th, 2007. Click here for more details.

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Enter the contest online at www.gibson.com

*Note contest closes June 30th and you have to be a resident of the States to Win.

Curb’s Becky Judd says that the fact that the guitar was secured with concrete and locked down didn’t deter the thief. “Unfortunately, whoever took it managed to cut the lock and break the guitar from the stand,” Judd says. “I only hope they didn’t damage the guitar.”

A reward is being offered for any information leading to the return of the guitar. How do you steal a 10 foot high guitar and perhaps more importantly, what do you do with it?

From the page: Acoustic Guitar magazine and the Martin Guitar Company have teamed up to give you a chance to win a 000C-28 Andy Summers Signature Edition Martin Guitar (retail price $5,999).

Click here to enter the contest.

Click here to enter. (You need to register an account first)

Check out the virtual drum machines or their home page.

This is a really fun song to learn, but it could be frustrating if you are a beginner and unfamilar with the chords and finger strumming style that Smith employs. There are alot of inaccurate tabs out there in “Internet Land” so here is a link to most accurate tab out there from SweetAdeline.net which I have learned from and believe is the most accurate tab out there for Angeles.

I spent quite abit of time learning this song and trying to find the most accurate tab, but what I figured out from learning this song is that it’s not only important to have a accurate tab to learn from but you must know how to execute the strumming technique.

He uses 2 techniques, and for the intro it’s straight up Travis Picking. If you can’t Travis Pick you should probably spend a few hours, sessions or weeks depending on your skill level learning this picking style before you even try to learn Angeles. If you study enough Elliot Smith songs you will find he uses this technique quite often; as well as other advanced strumming and picking techniques like appreggio.

Keep in mind that leaning Travis Picking will open you up to a world of other songs, as it’s a very popular picking pattern; and it has many variations.

Travis Picking is basically an alternating of the low bass note with a high treble note in between. Though there are alot of different patterns this is the general principle that underlies all Travis Picking. Click here for a Travis Picking lesson.

I am not sure if there is an offical name for the second style of strumming that Elliot Smith employs, but I think it is probably an arpeggio or flamenco-inspired technique. Basically he plucks the bass notes with his thumb and strums with his fingers. The first strum down is I believe with the thumb, then the others are alternating with the tip of his index finger and other fingers. And if you watch the video closely or slow it down you can see he rakes his finger upwards across the strings in some places. It almost sounds like fast finger picking. But he’s just brushing the strings with the tips of his fingers.

The best way you can see this is to watch the video that is posted here. Forward to 3:10 - 2:57 of the video and click the pause/play button rapidly so you can see Elliot strumming kind of in slow motion and you will see what I mean.

Another interesting clip is at around 1:58 to 1:55. I find this really interesting because although his back seems to be a little hunched the angle that he holds the guitar at and the way his arms and fingers are positioned are in an extremely relaxed and natural position. The basic fact of the matter is if you play with too much tension in your body then you will never learn anything.

You don’t have to have perfect posture to play guitar, god knows I don’t but I think it’s more important to relax when you play, rather than playing with tonnes of tension in your arms and hands…

In reality, all you’re doing is pressing a combination of buttons at just the right moment. But the fact that you’re standing up, wailing away on a toy guitar adds to the immersive quality.

And I thought to myself, the only thing better would be to actually sit and play a real guitar! Made of wood!

I am not an avid video game player. On the rare occasion I have been known to sit around a friend’s house on a saturday night playing video games, but most of the time it was just because we were to hung over to do anything else…

Ever played this?

Click here for a Drop D tutorial, or if you prefer try the alternate tuner.

It kind of reminded me of an old Hunter S. Thompson quote,

“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side.”

Here are a couple of quotes from the article:

“Record companies used to charge a fee for making it possible for people to listen to recorded music. Now their main function is to prohibit people from listening to music unless they pay off these corporations.”

“Or to put it slightly differently, they used to provide you with the tools you needed to hear recorded music. Now they charge you for permission to use tools you already have, that they did not provide, that in fact you paid someone else for. Really what they are doing is imposing a ‘listening tax’…”

“Really what they are doing is imposing a “listening tax.” Like all taxes, if you don’t pay you are breaking the law; you are a criminal! Armed agents of the state have shown up at private residences and taken teenagers away in handcuffs for failure to pay this corporate tax.”

Bob Ostertag is a “composer, performer, historian, instrument builder, journalist, activist, and kayak instructor ­” who has published “21 CDs of music, two movies, two DVDs, and two books”. You can check out his website here.

He has a pretty decent technique; it can be fun to take a song that isn’t guitar based and mess around with it.

Also I moved the guitar tuner to the home page, if your looking for it.

PS, This post is mainly here because I needed something in this section, but will try to add something daily, okay probably weekly that is half interesting to other guitarists out there to this section, possibly not all guitar related, but mostly.

Happy Surfing.