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« Previous EntriesGuitar: Absolute Beginners’/Bluffers’ Lesson #1
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007Ok, you want to play guitar. You want to play well - eventually - but for now you just want to be able to play a few songs and maybe jam a bit with other people. No problem!
One word of warning. Your early progress will be limited by how much you practice. Sorry, but […]
Coming Soon:Instrument Lessons/Bluffers Guides
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007Yup, we’ll be introducing some tutorial and reference material for beginning instrument players. Eventually we hope to have whole, structured learning courses for a number of instruments, but these will obviously take a while to build up so we’ll do it in installments.
Some of the initial lesson articles will be in the form of quick-start […]
More Gigging Tips
Monday, September 3rd, 2007This article by Chris Officer complements our earlier ‘Gig Check List‘ and ‘Quick Tips for Getting More Gigs‘ articles.
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Right first off this is not going to be a definitive list. I expect to miss things out (it’s been a while since I played a gig after all and the memory […]
Choosing What Instrument to Learn #4: Mandolin
Friday, August 31st, 2007I have to confess a bias: we are talking about my favourite instrument here!
I’m serious. I played guitar badly for decades and thought I was having fun. Then I took up bass guitar, which I played badly for some years, and thought I was having fun. More recently, I took up tenor banjo, which I […]
Choosing What Instrument to Learn #3: Drums
Thursday, August 30th, 2007There are probably two instruments most kids aspire to play in a band: guitar and drums. For some reason, the glamour seems, in many minds, to be embodied in these two roles. It is relatively rare to hear someone say, “I want to be a keyboard player” or “I want to be a bass player”.
One […]
GIG: The Ploughmen. Herts, UK. 28th August 2007
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007To kick off the new Gig List feature:
The Ploughmen: The Red Lion, Breachwood Green, Herts, UK. Tuesday 28th August 2007. 8.30pm
An informal acoustic gig. Guest musicians (acoustic) and audience participation welcome!
Line-up: banjo, guitars, mandolin, double bass, sax, percussion and vocals.
Set: folk, rock, blues, bluegrass, rockabilly. Hayseed Dixie style tongue-in-cheek cover versions in styles you wouldn’t […]
First Serious Electric Guitar: Recommendations
Monday, August 27th, 2007When we start out on an instrument, most of us just don’t have a clue. We know next to nothing about the instrument, and even less about how to play it. To make an important purchase like one’s first real instrument from such a position of ingnorance is madness. Take it from someone whose fingers […]
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