Christopher Liscio, the developer of the excellent learning tool Capo, let me know that he has recently updated the app. I've previously reviewed Capo and really liked it. Probably the biggest new feature of the app is the ability to save the slowed music so that you can listen to it on an iPod, thus enabling you to practice away from the computer. You can export an entire song … [Read more...]
Share Your Licks
TinyLick.com is a fun Web site that lets you create licks and then share them on other sites, such as forum sites or on your own Web site. For example, here's a three-note per string lick in G: … [Read more...]
Virtual Woodshed’s Interview with Lindy Fralin
Virtual Woodshed has an interesting interview with pickup designer Lindy Fralin. If you've ever looked into buying aftermarket pickups for your guitar, then you know that Fralin is one of the best out there when it comes to making pickups. In the interview, he discusses tone, how he got started playing guitar, how he got started in the pickup business, and playing in his own … [Read more...]
Guitar Tablature: Evil, Great, or Somewhere in Between?
Some guitarists decry guitar tablature as a cheat or, at best, a crutch, instead telling guitarists to learn standard notation. I can understand this position, although I don't hold it myself. (If you don't know what guitar tablature is, read this.) I think guitar tablature has made the guitar a much more accessible instrument, almost a paint-by-numbers introduction to the … [Read more...]
Congratulations to Jeff Beck Contest Winners
Earlier this week, I selected the three winners of the Jeff Beck Performing this Week...Live at Ronnie Scott's Blu-Ray discs. Congratulations to the following winners: Denny P. Pete G. Jamie B. If you didn't win this time, enter the new contest. … [Read more...]