CHECK IT OUT: MonkeyFest 2011 The Movie – Featuring Guthrie Govan, Andy James, Godsized & Alex Hutchings and much more!
October 21, 2011
If you haven’t seen it already I wholeheartedly recommend you check out this brilliantly filmed movie featuring highlights from this year’s amazing Monkeyfest:
Early bird tickets are now available for Monkeyfest 2012!
SOFTWARE: Edit TAB on your iPad – Guitar Pro now with Notepad
October 12, 2011
Great to see that the Guitar Pro app for the iPad now has the very handy Notepad functionality that was added to the iPhone version last year.
I use Guitar Pro quite a bit for teaching and personal use, so I’m happy now that the Notepad feature has been added to the iPad app. I can now add licks/song ideas on the go anytime without having to be sitting at my main machine in the studio 
. These can then be exporting and worked on some more in the main app if needed.
What is really awesome about this new iPad version is that using the iPad’s great touch interface you can add articulations to notes added in Notepad, e.g sliding between two notes on the virtual fingerboard to create a slide. Very cool.
One thing to watch out for, when I updated my existing version of Guitar Pro for iPad the fingerboard would occasionally disappear, a quick uninstall and install sorted this though.
Guitar Pro for iPad is available now in iTunes
GEAR: Rasmus Modern M200 Musicradar review
September 28, 2011
The reviews for the new affordable line of guitars from Suhr, Rasmus, are beginning to crop up, check out this Musicradar review of the Modern M200:
The combination of vintage and modern tones makes this a seriously versatile guitar in the truest sense of the term. No matter what style of music you play, this Rasmus model hits the modified S-type bullseye.
None of the aforementioned doom merchants had actually tried a Rasmus before they unleashed the negative vibes. As ever, the proof is in the pudding and today’s special for the doubters is a big slice of humble pie.
We like the fact that your money appears to have been spent on the important stuff – playability, pickups and hardware.
COMPETITION: Win an endorsement with Chapman Guitars!
September 2, 2011
Rob Chapman has just announced an amazing competition to WIN an endorsement with Chapman Guitars, here’s the official blurb:
Chapman Guitars is a growing guitar company founded by YouTube guitarist & educator Rob Chapman. It is based on the principle of having Rob’s fans collaboratively design guitar models with him through a series of polls conducted on the Chapman Guitars website.
To celebrate two years of running, culminating in over 30,000 subscribers on YouTube, Rob is launching a competition that is open to anybody, of any age, anywhere in the world. The winner of the competition will receive a full endorsement with Chapman Guitars; a one-off SveeArt custom Chapman Guitars ML-1 “Heart of Fire”; a Chapman Guitars ML-2 Standard and a bag of Chapman Guitars accessories (including picks, strings and a hand-made leather strap).
In order to help Rob find the best of the best, he has turned to two of his friends and top producers in the industry: Eddie Kramer and Misha Mansoor. Rather than judge solely on guitar prowess, Rob, Eddie and Misha will be judging the competition together, looking for guitarists with passion and personality in their performance.
The competition launches on September the 2nd, and will run for two months. For details on how to enter, watch the video hosted on Rob’s YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/robchappers
The backing track for this competition is available from here:
http://www.guitarplayback.com/happy-satch-mood
Many thanks to Svee at http://www.sveeart.com for his amazing work on the Chapman Guitars ML-1 “Heart of Fire”
Good luck!
Rob Chapman, Eddie Kramer, Misha Mansoor and the Chapman Guitars team
VIDEO: Monkeyfest – The Movie?
September 1, 2011
LESSON: MasterTheTheory ‘Learning the notes on all six strings’
August 7, 2011
A new lesson has been uploaded to mastertheguitar videolessons entitled ‘Learning the notes on the all six strings‘:
Description
In this MasterTheTheory! video lesson, building on your knowledge of the notes on the E and A strings, you will learn how to easily work out the notes on the D, G and B strings using a quick intuitive method. Before long you will know the notes all over the entire fingerboard!
Who is this lesson for?
This lesson is for players of all levels, from beginners who need to know where to play power chords, barre chords, scales etc. to experienced players who want to fill in any gaps in their fretboard knowledge and be able to gain a greater insight into their playing.
The lesson is provided as a downloadable (160MB) zip file containing:
Full lesson, totalling ~10 mins, with detailed diagrams in 720p HD MP4 Video
High Quality supporting PDF documentation and exercises to aid you in your learning
HTML Page arranging all of the above in one easy reference point
VIDEO: new ‘Jazzy Jams’ jamtrackcentral.com package with Alex Hutchings out soon!
July 29, 2011
Alex Hutchings has been back to the jamtrackcentral studio working a new ‘Jazzy Jams’ package which, as usual, will feature 100% accurate transcriptions, extended backing tracks and full length videos:
