Tagged with 'Guitar'
Smarter Kids Through Music and a Student Story
Smarter Kids Through Music According to MIT: if you want smarter kids, they will develop stronger intelligence when they learn music than when they learn to code. We musicians all knew that already of course, but it still feels good when a highly credible institution like MIT acknowledges how amazingly impactful the study of music
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Guitar Eye Candy: The 10 Most Expensive Guitars Ever Sold
The 10 Most Expensive Guitars Ever Sold I saw this article about the 10 most expensive guitars ever sold in the British newspaper The Telegraph a while ago and wanted to share it with you here. This is cool guitar stuff. The article lists Leo Fender’s first prototype for the Telecaster Eric Clapton’s gold plated
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The Different Ways To Tune A Guitar
Guitar Tuners Following TC Electronics tuner is really cool. It is to my knowledge, the only tuner where you can hit all 6 strings simultaneously, and tune all 6 strings at the same time. Following clip-on tuners have gotten very popular. These tuners clip on your headstock, and they read the vibrations of the wood
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A Weird, Intricate Tuning You Want to Try on Guitar
Alternate and Open Tunings. There is a difference. Open tunings: when you hit all open strings, they sound like an open chord. For example: when you tune the A string up a whole step to B or down a whole step to G, you get the notes E G/B D G B E, which adds
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Creation of my Custom Dream Guitar (Part 4, the Final Installment: The Spec Sheet)
Creation of my Custom Dream Guitar (Part 4, the Final Installment: The Spec Sheet) This is the final part of a 4-part blog. Read the previous 3 posts here: An Update On My New Suhr Lefty Modern Guitar, My All-Time Favorite Custom Suhr Modern and The Custom Guitar Decision Making Journey. There will be 1
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