Posted in News, Updates on Jan 29th, 2008 1 Comment »
Last month, Guitar MX told you about the new Guitar World Tabs site, which offered premium tabs from past editions of Guitar World magazine online, absolutely free. According to this article at Mashable.com, Guitar World has just teamed up with Sony/ATV Music Publishing, and will be publishing even more premium tabs on their new site. [...]
Posted in Fun Stuff, News, Updates, Videos on Jan 16th, 2008 6 Comments »
The results of the Guitar World Readers Poll 2008 are in, and are published in the March edition of Guitar World, which is available now. Dimebag Darrel was easily voted into the Guitar World Hall of Fame, and is featured in this special edition of Guitar World. Here is a list of some of the [...]
Posted in Guitar Lessons, Updates, Videos on Dec 9th, 2007 No Comments »
JamPlay.com has contributed four guitar lessons to the Guitar MX guitar lesson archive. These lessons are entitled ‘Fundamentals of Finger Picking’, ‘Electric vs. Acoustic Guitars’ and songs ‘Stairway To Heaven (Intro)’ and ‘When I Come Around ‘. three of these lessons include video. There has also been a new section called ‘Songs’ added to the [...]
Posted in Gear, News, Updates on Dec 7th, 2007 1 Comment »
Today is the worldwide release date of the much talked about and anticipated Limited Edition Gibson ‘Robot Guitar‘; a guitar which tunes itself using robot technology. This technology, which is described here, was developed by a German company called Tronical. It automatically tunes the guitar in seconds using a CPU in the guitar, and tiny [...]
Posted in Gear, News, Updates, Videos on Nov 11th, 2007 4 Comments »
On December 7, 2007, Gibson will be releasing the first run of the Limited Edition Robot Guitar, which is being called ‘the world’s first guitar with robot technology’. The main feature of this guitar is the patented self-tuning system known as Tronical PowerTune system, which was first described on our blog last month. They are [...]
Posted in Guitar Lessons, Updates on Oct 31st, 2007 No Comments »
Although the Guitar Alliance 7-day free pass that was posted here has expired, you still have a chance to get access to their guitar lessons at a reduced rate. Guitar Alliance is currently offering a special where you can get access to the site for just $6.95! But the offer expires at midnight tonight. This [...]
Posted in Updates, Videos on Oct 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
In the ‘Crossroads Guitar Festival Followup‘ post, I mentioned that Johnny Winters’ performance didn’t make the original MSN playlist. I have been searching YouTube in vain for a clip of this performance that I could post here. Finally, someone has recently posted this video to YouTube. Here is Johnny Winter with Derek Trucks performing Highway [...]
Posted in Guitar Lessons, Updates on Sep 30th, 2007 No Comments »
We are pleased to announce that new lessons have been added to our guitar lesson archive by Jamorama. Jamorama is a guitar learning kit that consists of 148 video examples and exercises, five exclusive computer games and ebooks. Jamorama has provided these text lessons for us to use, one with audio and video examples, absolutely [...]
Posted in Fun Stuff, News, Updates, Videos on Jul 30th, 2007 No Comments »
Hope you got to watch at least some of the Crossroads Guitar Festival this weekend on MSN, unless of course you were one of the lucky ones who attended the event. It was a great show, as you can see by the rave reviews in the Chicago Sun Times and Rolling Stone. This page provides [...]
Posted in News, Updates on Jul 11th, 2007 No Comments »
The story about YouTube yanking David Taub’s video guitar lessons because of a copyright dispute, which we reported on this blog on July 7, has become quite a hot story, and causing a lot controversy regarding music copyright issues. We’re happy to report that there has been a positive development in this story. In their [...]