Month: March 2018

Best and Most Accurate Guitar Tablature WebsitesMarch 29, 2018 By Klaus Crow Leave a CommentMost of you know free tablature websites like Ultimate-guitar and Guitartabs.cc. Although these are great websites with lots a tablature, the downside they are not always very accurate, and not everything you want is there when you need it.Sometimes you just want to really nail a song, and make sure you get it right. You want to save yourself the precious time searching for the right tab without mistakes or missing pieces. In that case, you can choose tablature transcribed by professionals and go to one of the websites in this post.You can find links to get complete tablature books of your favorite artist or download or request tablature music sheets for one particular song. It’s…

Today’s Pedal Line Friday submission is from Tym Johnson. If you have a pedal line (doesn’t have to be in a board) for your rig, please email me a photo, bio, description of pedals and routing to pedalline@nulleffectsbay.com. Every Friday I’ll showcase a pedal line submission. Make sure you include any links to your band or music page. Pedal Line Friday – 3/30 – Tym Johnson When I recently got a Marshall DSL40, I decided that I needed a separate pedalboard specifically for this amp, because I had been running pedalboards into clean amps for years.  My logic was to run the bottom half of the board into the front of the DSL40 and the top half of the board through the effects loop. The pedalboard is the Double Decker…

There are many ways to transpose a song in different keys. You can use a capo, play a song in bar chords and then move all the chords up or down, or write down all the chords of the song in the appropriate key. Those are good solid ways, but sometimes it’s just nice to transpose without capo, bar chords or too much hassle of writing things down. You want to switch between keys instantly using mainly open chords, because they sound nice and are easy to play. We’re not going for any sharp or flat keys in this post. We keep things simple. So how do you go about that? First, you want to know how to build chords of the major scale. If you don’t know how to…

Photo by Hudsӧn / CC BY So why get a violin bass? With a solid-body electric bass, the shape of the body isn’t going to have much impact on the sound. That same wisdom doesn’t hold true when you’re talking about a hollow-body construction, however. The violin bass is a unique shape, first popularized by Paul McCartney of the Beatles, and the sound it produces is distinctively different than what you’ll get out of most instruments. Because it’s a more specialized instrument, it can be hard to find a cheap violin bass. But bassists on a budget aren’t out of luck—even the iconic brand Hofner has a few models in their catalogue for less than $350. We’ve picked out some of our favorite affordable violin basses below. Whatever your budget,…

PHOTOS: Roasted Flame Maple neck with Advantage Neck Profile™. Swamp Ash & Alder chambered body. Carbon fiber. Custom OEM DiMarzio pickups designed by Steve Blucher featuring 5-way switching and 10-position ToneStyler studio grade passive EQ. Inspired by time in my favorite city, Fort Worth, Texas. Old money from oil & cattle mixes with high tech startups and micro distilleries. A night out at the local bar you'll find cowboy boots, PBR, cocktails with bitter, and on stage: singer-songwriter, prog-metal. Push-pull between what's now and what's next. Rumble of rails, train horn echoing across the concrete. Warm nights, sage on the evening breeze. That tornado warning flashing on your phone at 3 am. PHOTOS: Perfect matched pair. Identical, one polished perfect, one patinated. I've introduced design elements to update this old…

So yesterday, the internet was in full on melt down with talk about the new PRS John Mayer Signature “Strat”. It was interesting to see the response on the guitar and how there are some many feelings pro and con on the release. But during this I saw something that was new to me. May not be new to a few of you, but thought I would share. It started with a video post from johnmayerclub Instagram account: A post shared by John Mayer Club. (@johnmayerclub) on Mar 4, 2018 at 3:44am PST What is this madness? What’s the story with the crazy roadcase with multiple drawers full of pedals? So I started digging. So that clip was from way back in 2013 when Mayer was at Electric Lady Studios…

EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Gavin Kennedy – ‘Pharaoh’ Posted onMarch 9, 2018AuthorPeter Hodgson VIDEO Gavin Kennedy is a ridiculously talented guitarist who has just released his instrumental album Sunchaser, co-produced with Adam “Nolly” Getgood. They met over in the UK a few years ago where Nolly mentored Gavin, and ehen Gavin decided to make an album, Nolly was all on board. They recorded the project in Nolly‘s home studio with real amps instead of taking the virtual route, and the guitar production on the album is incredible. Gavin is behind all of the guitars on the album which include Breedlove and Ernie Ball Music Man guitars, along with composing and producing the tracks alongside Nolly. Here’s an exclusive premiere of a playthrough video for the track ‘Pharaoh’ from Sunchaser. We’ll have Gavin…

Of all the Ormsby guitar designs, my favourites personally are the SX and the TX. Something about the SX just feels super-right to me and it’s always a treat to get to play one, whether it’s a Custom Shop made-in-Australia model or a Korean-made GTR version. But for me the TX is really where it’s at. Imagine if an Ernie Ball Music Man Edward Van Halen model got it on with a Fender American Deluxe Telecaster but then spent a summer hanging around with a gang of Jazzmasters. Yes, before you even realise that it’s a multiscale guitar, the offset design tells you there’s something very different about this instrument, something that gives it great ergonomics even before you even take into account the fretting-hand-friendly multiscale design. In its 7-string…

PHOTOS: Orchid™ design in 2018. Natural swamp ash, quartersawn maple, ebony, carbon fiber. Advantage Neck Profile™. It's been a full decade since this saga began. Your narrator has survived many adventures these ensuing miles. I do notice a few more gray hairs in his beard, but his eyes sparkle. Penelope remains elusive, no regrets however. Your companionship is so deeply cherished and appreciated. All of you who have been long-time travelers, as well as more recent additions. There are four who have been absolutely essential over the years, with me since the very beginning when I built Halie's Orchid (quite literally) in an abandoned house in the woods near Frenchtown, NJ: Tricia, Monster, Gethyn, Seth Godin. Thank you. Everyone. PHOTO: The frets are not an optical illusion. I've been thinking…