GuitarCardio.com, a site created by Brad Heintz, is a site that helps you increase your guitar stamina through a series of user-selectable exercises. Brad explains why he created the site: Like most people who have to practice at something, I found that the practice & warm-up part of my routine got stale pretty quickly, and that I was just running through the same scales … [Read more...]
Ira Glass on Getting Better
Ira Glass, host of This American Life, gives some advice in this video about breaking through those times when you know the creative work you're doing isn't as good as you'd like. Some very good advice, such as producing a large volume of work, even if you know what you're currently doing isn't very good. Continuing to produce and work through those times will lead to better … [Read more...]
Free Air Guitar
It looks like 96.3 Rock Radio is running a free air guitar promotion. Grab one while you can! * Photo credit: Flickr user sepultura … [Read more...]
Gibson Summer Jam ’08
Gibson has recently posted a recap of their Summer Jam '08 event they held during the Summer NAMM show here in Nashville. The Summer Jam event included concerts, custom shop tours, guitar showcases, and more. Some artists that showed up included Slash, Johnny A., Johnny Winter, Kenny Olson, Jerry Cantrell, and many more. I wish I'd known about it in time...I would have love … [Read more...]
Art Guitar
Are you in the market for a custom-painted guitar? Art Guitar is a company based out of Colorado that custom paints guitars. They also make custom-painted Guitar Hero controllers. Although at $399, the Guitar Hero controllers aren't cheap. They have KISS, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Ozzy Osbourne, Megadeth, and Pantera Guitar Hero controller models. … [Read more...]