Posted in News, Videos on Feb 10th, 2009 4 Comments »
Fender University Spring 2009 class is about to start. Fender University is a new program open to guitar and bass players worldwide. The program runs from March 4 through March 9 and includes the following:
Attendance for five days and five nights at Fender University.
Hotel accommodations: Full service hotel—the Mission Inn Hotel & Spa, Riverside, Calif.
All [...]
Posted in Gear, Guitar Players, News, Videos on Feb 5th, 2009 2 Comments »
After 35 years of tinkering with guitars, and creating his famous “Frankenstein” guitar (Which let’s face it, is a piece of crap), Eddie Van Halen has designed an indestructible guitar called the EVH Wolfgang guitar. The guitar has the highest quality features, including stainless steel frets, double-potted custom-wound pickups, five-piece binding on the matching body [...]
Posted in Guitar Lessons, Rock House, Videos on Feb 3rd, 2009 No Comments »
The following video guitar lesson is sample off of the Metal Guitar – Melodic Speed, Shred, & Heavy Riffs Instructional DVD by The Rock House Method, featuring Alexi Laiho of Children of Bodom.
You can find more lessons like this one at the Rock House Method web site.
Posted in Fun Stuff, Guitar Players, Videos on Jan 30th, 2009 3 Comments »
Guitar World put together a list of the 50 Greatest Guitar Solos. Jim Hendrix made the list 4 times, so you know it’s not a bad list. Here they are, ranked from bottom to top. Links go to videos of each song.
50: “Shock Me” (Ace Frehley)
49: “Europa” (Carlos Santana)
48: “Sympathy for [...]
Posted in Guitar Hero, News, Updates, Videos on Jan 27th, 2009 No Comments »
Activision has just announced that their much anticipated Guitar Hero Metallica video game will be released on March 29, 2009 for Xbox and PS3. Metallica is the second band to have their own Guitar Hero game; Aerosmith being the first.
The game will include the following tracks, provided by FEARNet.
All Nightmare Long
Battery
Creeping Death
Disposable Heroes
Dyers [...]
Posted in Guitar Lessons, Videos on Jan 11th, 2009 3 Comments »
Here’s a new and fun video guitar lesson by NextLevelGuitar.com on “happy funk”, inspired by James Brown.
You can find more lessons like this one at NextLevelGuitar.com
Posted in Guitar Players, News, Videos on Jan 6th, 2009 No Comments »
Guitarist Ron Asheton of the Stooges was discovered dead today in his Detroit home. It’s believed that he died of a heart attack a few days ago. He was 60 years old.
Ron wasn’t a technical guitarist and didn’t have much commercial success, but was very influential in punk and hard rock music. He was [...]
Posted in Contests, Updates, Videos on Dec 28th, 2008 1 Comment »
Earlier this month, Dean Guitar announced the winner of their “Get your Wings Shredder Search” contest, which began in July. The grand prize winner is Ed to Shred, who has a unique onstage persona. He dresses as a nerd, compelete with bow tie and glasses. Here’s a video of the Dean announcement by former Pantera [...]
Posted in Guitar Lessons, Videos on Dec 24th, 2008 No Comments »
This is a metal Christmas medly composed by Sean Conklin at InfiniteGuitar.com and inspired by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. It combines the two Christmas songs, “Carol of the Bells” and “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”.
You can find tab for this song and many other songs and lessons at InfiniteGuitar.com.
You can more Christmas lessons, all FREE, [...]
Posted in Guitar Lessons, Videos on Dec 19th, 2008 1 Comment »
Jimi Hendrix used many unique chord patterns, including the famous Jimi Hendrix chord. In this video guitar lesson by NextLevelGuitar.com, a chord progression using a commonly used Hendrix chord shape is used.
You can check out more videos like this one at NextLevelGuitar.com.