Posts from January 2013

For some guitar players, picking as fast as possible means to learn a very specific technique.

There are more than a few guitar players out there who absolutely hate reverb. And I mean hate it with a passion. They want absolutely nothing to do with it whatsoever.

I got a lot of flak because of my last post, mainly because something happened that I totally didn't expect - I actually caught the ear (pun intended) of the audio engineering community and unintentionally hit them right where they live.

"DAW" is an abbreviation for digital audio workstation; it's basically defined as any computer that can record audio digitally and has features to edit that audio, such as cutting/pasting, EQ, nominalization and so on. And yes, this technically means any PC or laptop can be a DAW as long as it has the right software […]

If my memory serves me correctly, the last time I went to Disney World's Magic Kingdom was when I wasn't even a teenager yet.

is something I watched for two reasons. First, the title of the movie is just plain cool, and second, it was made in 1975. I have a thing about movies from the '70s. For some reason, there's a lot of movies from that era that I really like.

Tremolo picking, sometimes called "up and down" picking, is someting that's a little difficult to start with only because many beginner players aren't instrcuted what not to do, which the video covers. Things like what not to do for palm position, what not to do for strength of picking and how not to use your […]

One of the interesting parts of being born in the '70s is that in my elementary school days I saw no typewriters whatsoever. The school I went to had , as in the green-screen kind where everything was in upper-case letters whenever you typed on it. The only real typewriter I ever saw growing up […]

Something that genuinely makes me feel bad is whenever I feature a guitar - especially one that I own personally - and get a comment on this blog or my YouTube channel from a fan that says, "I like the guitar you're playing, but I can't get it in my country."

It was either this past week or the week before that I was working on something in my place and I heard a loud THWAP! outside, and then heard a vehicle driving off. So I go outside and in front of my front door...

Recently I bought two guitars, the and the . Both guitars were selling for discounted prices when I bought them, and as of now they've both gone back up in price.