Category: Tips and Online finds
Hyper Touch Guitar by Givingshape
The HTG byt giving shape is a different breed altogether. I am personally not into very futuristic and innovative concepts, but I must say this guitar caught my eye. The whole fretboard is a touch screen and it is customizable in many different ways, from the fretboard to the picking area. You can find more…
Steve Vai’s Online Record Guitar Lesson
Watch live streaming video from berkleemusic at livestream.com I wanted to repost this great online lesson that Steve Vai did for Beklee Music, on Livestream a few weeks ago. It’s always humbling to see a player of his calibre to touch basic topics as chords and strumming, but also to give ‘life’ and business lessons…
Tips to adjust your guitar pickups height and balance
This is a great video from Greg V. with a lot of tips on how to get a good and even tone from your guitar by adjusting the pickup height and individual pole pieces. Enjoy.
Guest Post: 5 Great Tips (and one extra little one) for Haggling with Musicians
This is a guest post by Hariette Hale. A classically trained musician and graduate of City University and the Guildhall School of Music, Harriette can be found all over London at songwriters showcases, jazz clubs, recording studios, private functions and classrooms, tutoring the next generation of musicians. As a founding member of many functions band,…
TC Electronic Toneprint Pedals
From time to time I bump into something new in terms of gear and I want to share it on the site. TC Electronic has been producing some new interesting things recently, one of these is the Toneprint pedals. Everybody seems to want the classic stuff nowadays, trying to copy vintage boxes or reissuing yet another limited…
A list of the most popular jazz standards
This post if for the jazz guys, and possibly those that want to venture into jazz territory. I talked about repertoire yesterday, and today I was asked by a friend to put together a list of the most popular jazz standards that might be called at a jam session…this is what I came up with,…
A tool to improve your improvising skills.
It’s not a secret that one of my all time favourite guitar instructional books is The Advancing Guitarist by Mick Goodrich. One the exercises explained in this great book is about creating a random sequence of chords by writing every type of chord (major, minor, all the 7th chords and, if you feel more adventurous, chords…
5 Ways To Improve Your Sight Reading
We have heard too many times jokes about guitarists that cannot read music, or are the worst reader in the group…or the kind of guys that consider reading music unnecessary as ‘Clapton does not read music and is famous’. I can assure you that reading traditional notation will improve the knowledge of the instrument and…
5 Free Online Metronomes that work flawlessly.
I have always wanted to find a good on-line metronome that worked flawlessly so that I could practice or find the perfect tempo wherever I had an internet connection. I am sure nowadays most of us have a metronome on their mobile, but I found that these 5 following free on-line metronomes had something cool to offer, and also worked smoothly. 1 simple.bestmetronome.com/…
Line 6 Double Preset Mod
I posted this diagram on a different blog page ages ago, but I had so many emails about it that I wanted to post an update and some new pictures of a smaller enclosure. The original was posted on January 5, 2009 and I think I did this mod (if you can call it that) during Christmas…
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Professional guitarist, producer, internet enthusiast and overall geek, Gianni Chiarello has been playing, performing and recording for over 25 years in different parts of the globe. Read more about it here: 
