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International Gypsy Guitar Festival Rundown

The 6th Annual Gypsy Guitar festival was held in Gossington, Gloucestershire on the Friday 28th to Sunday 30th July 2006. We left from Paddington Station and stopped at Bristol Parkway for our scheduled change. We arrived at the remote Cam & Dursley station early friday afternoon in a taxi after our connecting train was cancelled.

Replacing Your Guitar Innards

This article is a guide to replacing pickups, control pots and wiring inside your guitar. Often, replacing the stock pickups on a guitar with a better quality ones that match your playing style more closely, will yield better sounds.

This article was inspired by just such a thing - the stock Ibanez pickups on my DTX120 were muddy sounding, and the wiring and pots were knackered.

Shreddie Riffs

This article covers some really simple, but great sounding shred riffs. They work by alternating a melody line against a repeating bassnote. This gives a punchy tight metal sound when combined with some palm muting.

Homemade PCBs for Effects Pedal Projects

This article looks at a common alternative method to using press ‘n’ peel transfers, hand drawn layouts, or routed boards. This will cover each stage of the process in detail, showing you how to get a good result. You need access to a laser printer, and some copper clad board.

Mode Applications

In modern times Modes are being used as compositional and improvisational tools but it is sometimes confusing how to apply them. For this reason it is important to have a basic understanding of how modes relate in a chord/scale relationship.