This little video made me think of an octopus. Imagine if you had like 8 arms, you could play some crazy stuff. These guys look like their having a good time, but I just have to ask, what’s with the hankerchief?
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The Ultimate Guitar Dork Award 2007 Finalist goes to the guys at Garage Geeks for inventing a Guitar Hero playing robot. Here is a full length article on their robot. My first reaction to the video was, are these people seriously cheering. And my second was too create an award for them. ;)
What do you think, is this the stupidist thing ever? Will humans no longer need to play guitar because they will have robots that will do it for them?
Or more accurately, will we no longer need to play guitar based video games, because we can watch the robots play them for us?
Something for you kids out there to think about if you are undecided whether you actually want to play Guitar, or if you just want to be a video game nerd and play Guitar Hero. Real guitar is a much larger challenge, but well worth the time as you can see from the graphs below.
I have been searching for a good tab for this for a long time, I almost gave up but tonight I finally found not only a tab, but a video and an explanation of technique.
Click here for the guitar lesson, or here for the guitar tab.
Here is a video of the man who transcribed it, Robby Grossman. Kudos to him for putting an Elliot Smith classic out there for everyone to learn.
Note to beginners, this most likely isn’t going to be song well suited for you. It’s a challenge for even advanced and intermediate players.
Here’s a great tutorial on how to play Blackbird by the Beatles, an acoustic classic, and a very popular song to cover. Many guitarists learn this and practically everyone in North America has heard it, probably more than once. I’d say this song is intermediate to advanced, so if you are a beginner and looking for something to challenge yourself this would be a good place to start.
Keep in mind it’s finger picked as well.
Here is an interesting post I came across today, if your into the copyright debate about music and the internet you might like to read. Sometimes I wonder how YouTube is going to stay in business, everytime you turn around they are getting sued or someone is getting them to take down the videos.
What’s next? Are they gonna charge you for whistling a tune, or what about all those guitar instructors and musicians out there that play music, is someone going to hunt them down and make them pay royalties everytime they strum a chord?
I imagine this shadowy underground world, outside of the net, where wild men roam free and play popular cover songs without paying a dime in royalties…
A pretty easy song, I like how the chords are posted in the video.
Looks like controversy has been a brewin’ on the net about Madonna’s apparent lack of guitar skill. Debate is raging on message boards across the internet as people debate whether the Material Girl’s recent performance with a guitar at Live Earth in London was real.
It’s rather funny; but I can see where many guitarists have a point. If you look at this photo you can see her wrist is in just about the most possibly awkward position for fingering that barre chord.
You be the judge, what do you think of “The Queen of Pop’s” guitar ability?
Here’s what gets me going; Guitar teacher’s online success unstrung by copyright dispute.
All this guitar teacher is doing is using other people’s songs as a vehicle to teach music, what’s the big deal?
And if you disagree with me think about it for a second - think about it in terms of what is right and what is wrong, and let me pose this one question to you. How can these people pretend to own songs that the masses made popular, don’t the people who listen to the music own it as much as the people who create it?
These songs don’t exist as commercial success without an entire culture embracing them…
When I read this type of article I just want to move to Gibrator or Siberia, but lots of server space and go on a tabbing spree. And publish every great piece of music this planet has ever known…
