Archive for the ‘Guitar’ Category
What a time to be a guitarist
Wow, guess who’s on a guitar kick?
When I first learned to play guitar — which would be roughly 20 years ago — the ways in which people learned to play guitar could be enumerated quite quickly.
Figure out songs by ear by listening to radio/tapes/LPs. Pick up chord books and then figure out songs by ear by [...]
I’m not so dumb after all
Gah, as expected the RiffTracker has reverted back to demo mode asking for an activation key.
Watch the silly bald man as he negotiates the murky waters of tech support again!
Marvel at his inability to acquire functionality for which he’s already paid handsomely!
Yo estoy El Dunderhead
I’ve been belly-aching over not having the RiffTracker part of my GuitarPort software because the CD wasn’t in the box. The CD still isn’t in the box, nor is it anywhere else at this point. The retailer — which I shall now name since I have a functioning product: 8th Street Music — told me [...]
GuitarPort: First Impressions
Here’s your soundbite: “GuitarPort is the perfect melding of the analog world of guitars and the digital world of computers.”
Up to this point, I love everything about it. The hardware is simple and effective. You plug one end into an available USB port on your computer — or on your monitor if you happen to [...]
Yo estoy rockiando
What a difference a day makes. First, I got the tremolo blocked on the old Ibanez and I now have, for all intents and purposes, a fixed bridge. God, how easy is restringing a fixed bridge guitar? Once I got the floating tremolo blocked it took me literally 10 minutes to restring my guitar, including [...]
I should be rocking right now
I used to be a decent guitarist. I was never good, but I was in a band as lead guitarist in “Groove Wagon” in Huntsville, Alabama for all of two gigs until the lead singer and the bassist both moved away within 2 weeks of each other. It used to be very important to me [...]
