Taken from a Rolling Stone article: In the middle of the rock documentary It Might Get Loud, Jimmy Page picks up a Les Paul and tears into "Whole Lotta Love" while the Edge and Jack White watch, slack-jawed. "They look just like 13-year-old boys," says director Davis Guggenheim. "They were both like, 'Oh, my God, that's how he did it!'

If you're a guitar fan, rock fan or even just a music fan in general, I don't think you'd want to miss this one. Getting three rock icons of this caliber together, watching them rock out strings and lyrics together is something to look foward to... the film might not affect how you play - though it might affect how you listen.

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We say "might" because, while the new game is apparently designed mostly to work the drums... it'll also work with the competitors guitars. Yep, that's right... they won't give you a guitar and they expect you to have one from another game if you want to use it. Man, that blows. What's the deal?

Now I'm not a marketing genious, but when I think of rocking out (and most people I assume) it's with a guitar in my hand... how many people play air drums? Lol. You know what I do think though? Konami expects the game to flop and doesn't want to take the chance manufacturing a bunch of cheap plastic guitars they couldn't give away if they wanted to. Bravo. Bean counters - 1, common sense - 0.

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Guitar World Magaize

I just finished reading the issue of guitar world magazine and I wanted to share a few of the things I learned in this month’s issue.

I always learn a lot from Guitar World and this issue was no different. As usual, I learned something great just from reading one of the interviews. The interview was with jazz guitar virtuoso Pat Martino. And while the whole interview was enlightening, there was one part in particular that I liked. If you read my post on listening (click here if you haven’t), you know that I am a big advocate of listening to everything to make you a better guitar player. But Pat Martino made a comment that takes it even a step further and think it is such a great point. He says:

“As an improviser, you need to experience the moment—and that includes everything in the moment. Observe the people around you—the bandleader, the bartender—what they wear, how they deal with people, the simple continuity of their presence. As you do that, you’ll see how you affect them, and you’ll play and act accordingly. You need to study the reality of the moment, and that is very rarely about studying modes and intervals.”

Great stuff!

Another thing I learned was in the lesson “10 Things You Need to Do to Play Like T-Bone Walker.” I learned that T-Bone Walker was the originator of the “lazy” bend. I did a post on this technique titles “Bluesing your bends”. But the article had a bunch of other great blues playing tips.

I also learned a lot about guitar amplifier cabinets and how their construction affects your sound. We are all always trying to get the most of our tone and I think we sometimes overlook the small thinks like amp cabinet construction. This article helped break down how different types of construction affect your sound in different ways. A very cool article.

I also learned that cowboys can play jazz! (See the extended lesson “Wester Swing-Roping in the Rip-Roarin’ Riffs of Cowboy Jazz”.)

There were also a lot of other great lessons like Larry Carlton’s extended lesson on the blues, which was more advanced then you might think. And there was a great mini-lesson by Herbie Hancock on adding pedal tones to the highest note instead of the lowest note (the technique is called “pedal point”.)

All in all it was a great issue. For more information on Guitar Player magazine read my post “My Thoughts on Guitar Magazines”.

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(Chicago, IL. July 10, 2007) Washburn Guitars, a division of US Music Corporation is celebrating 125 years of stringed instrument innovations. From the 1880’s to today, Washburn has been producing stringed instruments for amateur and professional musicians combining design, innovation and technology to deliver quality tools to artists across all genres. Washburn guitars have been played by classic guitar icons including Greg Allman and Bob Dylan. Today rockers such as Nick Cantanese of Black Label Society, Scott Ian of Anthrax and Joe Trohman of Fall Out Boy rely on Washburn to create the signature sounds that drive modern music.
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