Posted in Guitar Lessons, News, Videos on Nov 12th, 2008 2 Comments »
JamPlay.com has added a new guitar instructor to their staff. He is classical soloist Danny Voris. Danny is an accomplished guitarist who received a Masters degree in Classical Guitar Performance from the University oif Akron and has opened for well many known artists, including “Hootie and the Blowfish” and “Tesla”. Danny can be seen here [...]
Posted in Guitar Players, News on Nov 6th, 2008 1 Comment »
Queen guitarist Brian May had laid down some tracks back in 1999 for “Catcher N’ the Rye”, a song off of Guns N’ Roses new album “Chinese Democracy”. However, May is not credited in the liner notes of the album. It seems Axl Rose scrapped May’s tracks and had another guitarist rerecord it. This was [...]
Posted in News, Songs on Oct 27th, 2008 No Comments »
Guitar World Tabs has added new premium tabs by AC/DC , which can be viewed absolutely free at the Guitar World Tabs site. The premium tabs are for AC/DC songs that have appeared in previous editions of Guitar World magazine. The songs are Thunderstruck, War Machine, You Shook Me All Night Long, Let There Be [...]
Posted in Fun Stuff, News, Updates on Oct 23rd, 2008 3 Comments »
Guns N’ Roses has just released the title track off of their long awaited “Chinese Democracy” album, which has been in the making for over 10 years and has cost over 13 million dollars to make. Here’s the new single: You may recall from a previous post that soft drink maker Dr. Pepper offered a [...]
Posted in Contests, News on Oct 20th, 2008 2 Comments »
The social network for guitarists MyGuitarSpace.com has announced the last call for entries in the MyGuitarSpace.com Best Instrumental Contest. Entries will be accepted through the last day of October, and the winner will receive a check for $250. Guitarists interested in entering the contest should sign up on MyGuitarSpace.com for free and enter a video [...]
Posted in Fun Stuff, News on Oct 11th, 2008 3 Comments »
Australian singer-songwriting musician Josh Pyke recently filmed a video in which he rides in a boat shaped like a guitar. The boat was custom built to the exact specifications of the Maton acoustic guitar that Josh performs with. I know of a house he may be interested in. The video is for the song “Make [...]
Posted in Guitar Lessons, News on Oct 7th, 2008 2 Comments »
Elmore Music has just released a new instructional guitar lesson site for the acoustic guitar called Acoustic Guitar Methods. Elmore Music has produced several high-quality instructional guitar sites, including the very popular Guitar Tips site. This new site is specifically for beginners who want to play acoustic guitar. The program provides many step-by-step lessons which [...]
Posted in Gear, News on Oct 4th, 2008 6 Comments »
I was recently visiting my local Best Buy store, and noticed the grand opening of their musical instrument section, selling among other things, guitars, amplifiers and effects. Actually, it wasn’t a section, but a whole store within a store, resembling a Guitar Center location. Best Buy has been rolling out these musical instrument stores in [...]
Posted in Guitar Players, News on Oct 1st, 2008 2 Comments »
Steve Vai is currently auctioning off a personal one-on-one guitar lesson on eBay. Yes, you can take a 1-hour guitar lesson from Steve Vai….for the right price. Here’s what one lucky winner will get: One lucky winner will receive a one hour private guitar lesson with Steve Vai at a date, time, and location to [...]
Posted in News, Updates on Sep 14th, 2008 1 Comment »
Back in May, the Guitar MX Blog brought you the story of a new Supergroup called “Chickenfoot”, featuring Joe Satriani, Sammy Hagar, former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith. Hagar claimed that the band would “rival” Led Zeppelin. Well, there’s more to report on this story. Satch gave [...]