Guitar tabs,electric guitars,acoustic guitars

I was just thinking about duplicate content in web environment. Everybody is afraid of somebody stealing his website content, losing rankings, blog scrappers, PR going down, etc. Duplicated content is bad, bad, bad!!!

Well, is it the same in music? I am not speaking about stealing somebody’s song and pretending it is yours, no, that it is illegal. I am speaking about playing someone’s songs. I think that if more bands play the same song, this only makes the melody better since every musician finds that particular side of the song that fits him/her. Plus that it pays tribute to the original artist which is a way of showing your respect and appreciation.

So the reason I’ve started this post started is Love of My Life by Queen.

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Well, what do you know?! Munky, the guitar player of Korn just left band’s current European tour (that the band started on January 13) and the band itself, due to personal and family reasons, as he says! So, European fans hoping they will get to see Munky playing his mad riffs this year, well, it won’t happen!

“We fully support Munky’s need to be home right now and because we want to come through for all of our European fans, the tour will go on. It’s what Munky wants us to do, too. We promise to give it our all every night!” (Jonathan Davis)

In addition to Davis and Reginald “Fieldy” Arvizu, KORN’s current touring lineup includes guitarist Shane Gibson and ex-ARMY OF ANYONE drummer Ray Luzier.

Interesting that on Korn website there is nothing about it for the moment.

Later edit: I observe that now the news appeared on Korn’s website also.

So, if only the lead singer and the bass player remained from the original band and the lead singer has solo ambitions, how long until Korn disbands?!

Also MetalSucks and MetalUnderground wrote about it.

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Well, Jon of GuitarNoize.com gives away a Chrossroads guitar festival DVD to his readers. All you need to do is to comment on his blog, telling there what is the name of BB King’s guitar! Man, that’s a tough one! By the way, one of the things I like about this contest is that it is open to everybody, not only to people from US and Canada! Way to go, man!

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I am sure that a lot of you (rock fans) admire voices such Bruce Dickinson (Of Iron Maiden, of course), Michael Kiske (ex Helloween, “the silver throat” as some used to call him - by the way, I am a big fan of you, man!!) and others with similar abilities. I know I do. I love this kind of voices. What I didn’t know is that you can actually study this kind of vocal technique and that the way they sing is not just pure talent or God given voice but also studied technique. Here in Romania, I am not aware of someone teaching this kind of things. Of course we have all kind of music schools and a lot of great vocal trainers, but, damn, I don’t think we have something similar to this.

Here’s a movie of a guy singing a Queensryche’s song. He is a student of this private rock class. Of course, lead singers like Dickinson or Kiske are not born every day, but admit it, he’s there!

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This will be a short one. I remember when I started to get interested in guitars that something started to burn me inside, I just needed to learn to play! I had a high school class mate that used to bring the guitar to school back then and each time I used to see him playing, I felt such a strong urge to learn it myself.

He usually brought the acoustic guitar, a big one with a full and warm sound. Once he brought a Fender like electric guitar that it looked sooo  damn good! Red, if I well remember…

So I wonder: what actually makes us want so much to play the guitar? Why do YOU started to play the guitar?

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I have always admired Jazz guitar players, but I am not into Jazz. And I surely don’t like all kind of Jazz music, I love melodic one, not that modern-I-can’t-understand-it Jazz. I love the creativity that these guys show and the chromatic scale improvisations. I think this is what fascinates me the most: chromatic scales, because there is not much theory there. Instead there is much creativity, inspiration and feeling, the very heart of Jazz music.

For me, Jazz it is like an alien world, a world still not open to me but full of hidden poetry. Don’t yet consider me uneducated, please don’t! I have listened some (some is the keyword here) but indeed, not a lot. However, it is fascinating to me the way (inspired) Jazz musicians come up with the most beautiful chromatic phrases that always make sense…As George Benson said, “everything works in Jazz”. Right, but only if you know how to make it work!

Note: I embedded the following movie only for the first 10 seconds, I think, of Charlie Parker, not for the lesson itself. I find those liks just lovely. What do you think?

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Dr. J brought to my attention this guy, Michael Kelsey, that of course, I didn’t know about! I found him to be a great acoustic guitar player, as his website (michaelkelsey.com) says:

MICHAEL KELSEY cannot be limited to a simple description. When you listen to his music and see him perform live you’re witnessing more than a just another singer-songwriter. You’re watching a rhythmic, inspired guitarist and performance artist who brews soul, funk and even a little bit of the blues into a guitar festival of organic sound. Multi-instrumentalist Kelsey has been known to blend many musical genres with fervor and grace. When he hits the stage to perform, he plays every inch of his guitar and makes it sing, soar, pop and ping–by strumming it, pounding it and pulling every part of it or anything else an arm’s length or foot kick away. He has created a style that he described best as “progressive-aggressive acoustic guitar,” and he has only begun to make a first impression.

He sings, plays the rhythm, solo, bass guitar and drums at the same time on the same acoustic guitar. But beyond words, there is music so I suggest you the same video Dr. J suggested to me, Slow movin’ train.

Enjoy!

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Starting today, January 14th, Chris Broderick is the new guitar player of Megadeth. Started as a rumor a few days ago on the internet, it is now announced that Chris Broderick officially replaced Glen Drover, no more room for rumors. Glen Drover had problems balancing his family life with touring and band business so he left room for a new guitar player and the new guitar player is Broderick, formerly known as the guitar player of Jag Panzer and Nevermore. Now he is officially the new axe player of Megadeth.

Great news for him!

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Last night I have seen on CarbonFiberGear.com, through Guitarz, a great looking guitar that I didn’t know about. The guitar is called The Handle and comes from XOXAudioTools.com. The guitar is made of carbon fiber, with a hallow body that enhances the sound resonance. I find this to be a great looking guitar, and somehow reminds me of Yamaha Silent Guitar.

I was also curious to see how it plays, how this guitar sounds since more than how it looks, a guitar needs to sound well, so I have searched on YouTube (of course!) for a video test. Here’s what I found:

Later edit: Thanks to Dave from CarbonFiberGear.com,  who reminded me that only The Handle guitar comes from XOX, not the rest of the guitars presented there. What I can say? This guitar had all my love so it totally got my attention and I missed this! Mea culpa!

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I saw this on YouTube, man what creepy sounds you can make with an electric guitar and a slide…

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