Years ago, plectums were made of tortoise shell, bone, horn and hooves. Brian May from Queen liked to use a six pence piece as a plectrum. Now, with the aid of a "Pick Punch", you can easily create your own plectrums out of meterials you can find at home!
Continue reading »Written by Alex on Wednesday 3rd June 2009 at 10:29pm and posted in Latest Products
Green Day releases their eighth studio album, 5 years after the acclaimed 2004 release "American Idiot". The album follows the band’s new format of rock opera / pop-punk so you’re either going to love it or hate it!
Continue reading »Written by Alex on Sunday 17th May 2009 at 12:36am and posted in Music Reviews
Wrath is the sixth studio album from (New Wave of) American Heavy Metal band Lamb of God. Drummer Chris Adler says that the album "is going to surprise a lot of people". Read on to see what we thought about it.
Continue reading »Written by Alex on Tuesday 12th May 2009 at 10:59pm and posted in Music Reviews
The first lesson by our latest author Dr.Furqan Ali Shah looks at constructing the major and minor chords. This is a good place to start seriously learning about music theory.
Continue reading »Written by FurK on Monday 4th May 2009 at 1:16pm and posted in Music Theory
For most guitarists, a tuner is an essential piece of kit. Many of us also like to use a metronome when practicing to help keep good time. Whilst chord books make pretty dull reading, they are useful to quickly look up the odd complex chord. What if you could have all of these in one iPod shaped device…
Continue reading »Written by Alex on Sunday 3rd May 2009 at 6:26pm and posted in Product Reviews
Using alternat tunings
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Plectrum Material
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Alternate Tunings
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