Last year, Page Hamilton released a guitar instructional DVD titled Sonic Shapes. I've mentioned before that I was a big fan of Hamilton's and his band Helmet when I first started playing guitar in the 90s. He was one of the first musicians I knew of who tuned to drop-D. On Sonic Shapes, Hamilton illustrates some of the concepts and approaches he takes when writing music for … [Read more...]
Page Hamilton Talking about the Zoom H2
I've been thinking about getting some type of recording device to record myself while I practice. I'd like the recordings to be fairly high quality and I'd like to easily be able to transfer the recordings to my computer. The Zoom recorders by Samson seem to be some of the best on the market right now. Below is a video of Page Hamilton talking about how he and Helmet use the … [Read more...]