VIDEO: Guthrie Govan, Smoking version of Wonderful Slippery Thing!
November 25, 2010
Spotted over on truthinshredding, truly awesome live version of ‘Wonderful Slippery Thing’ by Mr Govan:
NEWS: DiMarzio Announces New Paul Gilbert Signature Pickups
November 24, 2010
InjectorTM Neck and Bridge Models DP422 and DP423
We first heard about Paul Gilbert in the 1980s. Billy Sheehan told us about an amazing 18-year-old who had recently arrived in California and had blown everyone away with his musicianship, speed, and awesome technical ability in Racer X. Naturally, we immediately asked Paul to become a DiMarzio endorser. It was the start of a great relationship. Recently, Paul has been heavily into our AreaTM pickups. He’s also been playing a lot of Racer X-style instrumentals, so the time was right for signature Paul Gilbert single-coil sized DiMarzio pickups. The outcome of our teamwork is the new InjectorTM Neck and Bridge Model pickups. The InjectorTM Neck and Bridge Models are hum-canceling singles with superior speed, dynamic range and 40% less magnet-pull than standard single-coils for superior pick attack, speed and clarity. Hear both the Neck and Bridge InjectorTM pickups on Paul’s latest CD, Fuzz Universe.
GEAR: Premier Guitar Demos 13 Monster High Gain Amps!
November 19, 2010
If you’re a fan of a leetle bit of amp filth (I know I am!) you’ll love this!
Premier Guitar magazine have grabbed 13 of the hottest gain monsters on the market today and demoed each one with guitarists Misha Mansoor (Periphery) and Ty Dietzler (Thousand Foot Krutch).
Check out this line-up:
Blackstar Series One 200
Diamond Nitrox
Diezel VH4
ENGL Powerball II
Framus Cobra
Fryette Pittbull Hundred/CLX Master Built
Hughes & Kettner Coreblade
Krank Nineteen80
Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier
Orange Rockerverb 100 MkII
Peavey 6534+
Randall RT 100
Soldano Avenger
VIDEO: Joe Satriani ‘Light Years Away’ Official Music Video
November 17, 2010
Cool new music video for Satch’s ‘Light Years Away’ from the album Black Holes and Wormhole Wizards:
Such an awesome Riff.
Which you can learn via the last MasterThatRiff!:
SOFTWARE: Guitar World Lick Of The Day for iPhone/iPad/iPod launched!
November 15, 2010
Launched last night Agile Partners (creators of the fab TabToolKit and AmpKit) have teamed up with Guitar World Magazine to provide guitar players who own a iPhone/iPad/iPod a great new app for learning licks in various styles.
Guitar World Lick of the Day is a must-have app for guitar players who want to continuously improve their guitar playing skills and broaden their repertoire in a fun and engaging way. Developed by Agile Partners and Guitar World, the world’s best-selling guitar magazine, Lick of the Day is a universal app that provides a ground-breaking approach to guitar instruction on iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. The app delivers a new and challenging lick to subscribers every day, with a one-of-a-kind feature set that enables guitar players of all skill levels to learn licks in a variety of styles.
Guitar World Lick of the Day is a free app that comes with five licks (including a lick by Zakk Wylde) so you can check out the app’s instructional content and amazing features on iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. One-, three- and six-month subscriptions can be easily purchased from within the app to receive a new and challenging lick every day, seven days a week.
Lick Of The Day from John Berry on Vimeo.
Lick of the Day Features
- High quality videos of Guitar World’s award-winning instructors and guitar celebrities, such as Zakk Wylde, Joe Satriani, Gus G., and Phil Collen, demonstrating licks in a wide range of styles: Rock, Metal, Blues, Bluegrass, Classical, Jazz and more
- Timeless celebrity videos from the Guitar World Vault
- Standard and tab music notation for each lick that scroll in sync with videos on iPad
- Practice mode with settings that control music notation tempo, looping, audio synthesis, a metronome and more — a great way for guitar players of all skill levels to practice each lick
- Dynamic fretboard that shows finger positions synchronized with the music notation (lefties can invert the fretboard)
- Performance notes written by Guitar World’s instructors
- “Star” your favorite licks to find them later easily, and sort licks by genre and difficulty
- Download licks to any iOS-based device that you own — iPad, iPhone and iPod touch
- Full support of portrait and landscape orientations on iPad
Download and subscribe to Lick of the Day now! A one-month subscription is available for only £2.99, a three-month subscription for £7.49, and a six-month subscription for £11.99.
Just downloading my copy right now!
COMPETITION: Blue Bug Competition by Milan Polak & T-Rex
November 10, 2010
It’s competition time again!
Milan Polak and T-Rex have teamed up again with Laurie Monk, Julian Puttins and Joop Wolters to bring you the Blue Bug Competition:
Milan Polak & T-Rex offer you the chance to win one of 3 awesome new ToneBug pedals!
The Judges:
Laurie Monk: http://truthinshredding.com/
Julian Puttins: http://www.youtube.com/petruccifever
Joop Wolters: http://www.youtube.com/joopwolters123
Michael Pagaard/T-Rex: http://www.t-rex-effects.com
Milan Polak: http://www.youtube.com/milanpolak
The Prizes:
1) T-Rex ToneBug Chorus/Flanger
2) T-Rex ToneBug Phaser
3) T-Rex ToneBug Distortion
The Steps you need to take to enter:
1) Subscribe to http://www.youtube.com/milanpolak
2) Download the backing track http://goo.gl/UU2X8
3) Video your response solo
4) and then post your video in response to this video
5) Promote your video
6) Win!
Backing Track chord sequence is:
part a) Amin9 / Dmaj (A Dorian)
part b) Fmaj9 / Cmaj7 / Fmaj9/ Cmaj7 – Gmaj (A Aeolian)
What we are looking for: great improvisation or composition. great tone, note selection, a one take solo, no harmonies, no double tracking, just you with the backing track.
Multiple submissions are allowed and there are no country limits!
Watch Milan Polak perform “Sometimes I Still Miss You”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUVeJv…
All video Responses: http://www.youtube.com/video_response…
Milan Polak’s music: http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/mil…
Song in this Video:
Milan Polak , “Sometimes I Still Miss You” from his CD Dreamscapes (Lion Music):
http://www.guitar9.com/dreamscapesmp….
Competition closes 20th December 2010 at 23:00 BST. We’ll then shortlist as soon as we can, but it does take some time.
INTERVIEW: live4guitar interview with Laurie Monk!
November 8, 2010
Check out this great live4guitar interview with THE man who tirelessly works on helping to promote amazing guitar talent from around the globe.
The one and only, Laurie ‘truthinshredding‘ Monk:
You seem to be particularly interested in newcomers, regardless of their background. What is it that you look for when you come across a player for the first time?
Like most people, I think you want to know what the future holds, so I look to the newcomers because they represent just that, the future of guitar. So the straight forward answer is I’m looking primarily at videos rather than listening to mp3, you get to see if the guitar player can play. The invention of YouTube has been a great way for guitar players to raise their profile. There will always be people with “God Like” playing abilities, people like Marshall Harrison and those stand out when you see them playing in real time. So for me video is a great medium for the guitar player. Although, no doubt, some players will see the composition is the sum of all their art.
In terms of video content, for the better than average player, I’m looking for original music, improvisational skills. I’m not looking for an unaccompanied guitar solo, or cover version, unless of course these are exceptional. In terms of the detail of the playing, I’m looking for the execution of techniques, the execution of picking styles, the vibrato, the bending, the tone. Many of the competitions I have been involved with or organised are primarily a vehicle to get players to look at their own playing out of context of what they normally do.
The evolution of guitar also means the quality of videos is getting better. I’m not really into seeing a headless torso showing me techniques, I’m more into the human quality of people, they say “this is who I am and this is what I can do!”. I’m not sure how many videos I must of watched, but it must be hundreds of thousands, in some ways you almost get a feel if the person can play just by looking at a still from the video, I mean you see the way the guitar is held, the type of guitar, the way the hands are on the neck, seriously!
