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Artistic Pursuit, began in 2005 and is founded on the idea that every artist can have a fan base and, if given the appropriate venue, can make their artistic dreams come true. Artistic Pursuit, is an online entertainment portal where artists can share their talents with the public, receive help promoting their material to a general audience, and increase their fan base. It is a subscription based website that specializes in the review and publishing of multimedia content on the behalf of subscribers at a minimal cost. Subscribers are also given the opportunity to vote for their own favorite artists. Artists are provided an opportunity to share in the profits and success of the company when their contributions are ranked within the top 100 of their specific category of interest. Thank you for making Artistic Pursuit, Australia the first premier entertainment web portal that shares the profits and success of the company with its subscribers.

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[NEW RELEASE] PUMA X ATMOS - MONKEY

 

 

Fur Elise is a famous piano solo by Beethoven. In this guitar lesson you will learn to play Fur Elise on your guitar. You don't have to read sheet music notation so let's start!

As I told you we will not use sheet music. Instead we will use guitar tablature.

Tablature is a form of musical notation, often with numbers and letters, which tells the player where to place their fingers on the guitar fretboard rather than which pitches to play.

I will use my own type of guitar tab notation today to make sure that the guitar tab is correctly displayed on article sites. The more common guitar tab staff notation you will find on my site.

The six strings on your guitar is numbered from the one with the highest pitch. This string is called the first string.

Let's start with the first part of the melody with guitar tab:

01 42 01 42 01 02 32 12 23

Now we will take a look at this guitar tab and how to interpret it. You have probably noticed that the numbers are organized in pairs.

The first number in the pair tells you what fret to press down and the second number what string to play.

01 tells you to play the open first string. This means that you play the string without pressing down a left hand finger.

42 indicates that you press down a left hand finger on the fourth fret of the second string. Well, now it's time for you to play the melody. Did you recognize the melody? Good!

This type of guitar tab doesn't indicate the length of the notes. If you sing the lyrics you will probably feel how to play the notes.

What finger should you use when you play with your right hand? In this guitar lesson we will not concentrate on your right hand. I suggest that you play the notes with your thumb or in another way you choose.

Let's play the next guitar tab:

35 24 23 02 24 13 02 12

What about your left hand? You can play the notes with your index finger but I suggest that you assign the notes on the first fret to your index finger, the notes on the second fret to your middle finger and so on.

It means that the 42 note in the beginning of the melody will be played with your little finger. Is it difficult? Yes, it will be difficult but not for long! You will get used to these fingerings if you are persistent!

In the long run you will probably even find it easier to play melodies this way if you get used to this more sophisticated fingering!

Let's continue! The next guitar tab is identical with the first line:

01 42 01 42 01 02 32 12 23

and the next guitar tab nearly the same as the second line:

35 24 23 02 24 12 02 23

A new melodi is introduced:

02 12 32 01 03 11 01 32

and ends this way:

34 01 32 12 24 32 12 02

By now you know how to play this guitar tab notation so let's play on!

01 42 01 42 01 02 32 12 23

35 24 23 02 24 13 02 12

01 42 01 42 01 02 32 12 23

35 24 23 02 24 12 02 23

Now you can play Fur Elise by Beethoven with guitar tab. Congratulations!

I suggest that you memorize the melody one line at a time so that the reading of this guitar tab will not slow you down when you play the melody in public!

This is a nice melody to know by heart as part of your repertoire for example when somebody asks you to play something! Everyone knows this song, don't they!

Peter Edvinsson is a musician, composer and music teacher. Visit his site Capotasto Music and download your free sheet music and guitar tab at http://www.capotastomusic.com

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Flamenco guitar is an art that it is hard to master. But is it possible to play a flamenco guitar melody that is easy to learn for a beginner. Come and see!

Flamenco is a song, music and dance style which has its roots in Moorish and Jewish musical traditions.

Flamenco culture has become one of the icons of Spanish music and even Spanish culture in general.

The flamenco guitar comes from the lute and is made of Spanish cypress and spruce and is smaller than a classical guitar with a sharper sound.

Malaguena is a flamenco style with its roots in the local fandango of Malaga.

You will not need to read sheet music to play this flamenco guitar piece. We will instead use guitar tablature. You will only use four strings on the guitar.

The string with the highest pitch is called the first string or E-string. Look at the following guitar tab with four strings indicated:

1. -------------------------

2. ---------0-----------0---

3. -----1-----------1-------

4. -2-----------2-----------

This is a tablature staff and the number 2 on the fourth string indicate that you play the fourth string while pressing down the second fret.

The next note is played on the first fret on the third string. The zero indicate that you play the note without pressing down any fret.

Play the melody with your thumb and with your first finger resting on the first string for later use.

Here is the next guitar tablature part:

1. -------------------------

2. -----1---0---------------

3. -2-----------2---0-------

4. ---------------------3---

After the last note on the third fret on the fourth string you just start over again with the first guitar tab staff.

Now it is time to introduce your first finger on your right hand into the melody. After every note you play with your thumb you just have to pluck the first string with your first finger. In guitar tab it looks like this:

1. -----0-------0------

2. -----------------0--

3. ---------1----------

4. -2------------------

And so on for the rest of the melody!

I hope you will find this very simplified flamenco guitar tab melody enjoyable. I guess many people will recognize the melody when they hear you play it.

Flamenco guitar playing is of course an art that is hard to master but this little flamenco piece doesn't sound so bad. Does it!

Peter Edvinsson is a musician, composer and music teacher. Visit his site Capotasto Music and download your free guitar sheet music and guitar tablature at http://www.capotastomusic.com

My Morning Jacket - What A Wonderful Man

Reigniting our popular bootleg feature with a great MMJ set... My Morning Jacket 10-23-2005 Murat Theater Indianapolis, IN Disc 1 01 - Intro 02 - Wordless Chorus 03 - It Beats 4 U 04 - Gideon 05 -… (in post Bootleg Justice - My Morning Jacket Live @ Murat Theater in Indianapolis, IN (10.23.2005) from Musical Justice. Download this at Amazon iTunes More by this artist at eMusic)

So, you got your new guitar, and you are ready to start learning to play it. Of course, you are very excited. And, perhaps, a little troubled, too. Now, let us meet your new guitar, to start a long and rich friendship.

Always remember to treat your guitar the same way you treat a person you are fond of. Pick it slowly and with caution. Caress it. Handle it with care. Learn to have a feeling of fondly care, not a feeling of fear.

Now, let us go through the following steps, so you will get acquainted with your new guitar:

• Get your new guitar tuned, or tune it yourself, at least roughly (that will be the topic of a new article coming soon).

  Sit properly, with your left leg standing on something five to six inches high. Feel your body, legs and arms relaxed.

• Place your guitar on your raised left leg. The tuning machine should be at the same level as your head. Place your right arm on the guitar body. About your left hand, as you will not fret any string by now, it does not matter where you place it, as long as it does not interfere with the sound. Try to feel most comfortable.
• As in the next steps we will be talking about strings, you should learn, first, that guitar strings are named, from bottom to top: first (the thinnest), second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth (the thickest) strings.
• Well, let us now get into the action! Make a downward stroke (strumming), playing all six strings with the nail of your right hand middle finger. Make it neither very slow nor quite fast. Make it tenderly. Wow! That was your first sound out of your guitar! Did you like it? Sure you did. Can you do it better? You bet!
• Try again. And again. And again. Not less than twenty or thirty times. Every time you play it, try to find out what you did not like, and focus on doing it better the next time.
• Do the same downward strumming, but now using the fleshy part (not the nail) of your right hand thumb fingertip. Again, make it neither very slow nor quite fast. And make it tenderly. Not less than twenty to thirty times. Focusing on doing it better the every time.
• Now play the sixth, fifth and fourth strings with a downward plucking motion of your right hand thumb finger. It does not matter, by now, whether you pluck them with the nail or with the fleshy fingertip. Then, without interruption, and with an upward plucking motion, play the third string with your index finger, the second string with your middle finger, and the first string with your ring finger. Again, it does not matter, by now, whether you pluck them with the nail or with the fleshy fingertip. Play all strings slowly; you are not strumming.
• Do that not less than twenty to thirty times, focusing, more than ever, on doing it better every time.

Do all exercises several times, taking a break every time you feel tired, or feel a sore back, shoulder, arm or hand. All that is usual at the beginning.

From now on, you will bear in mind that every time you play your guitar your most important second goal (we will discuss the first in a new article coming soon) will be sound quality: a clean musical sound. Do not ever forget it even for a single second: sound quality!

Well, now you surely are much more familiar with your new guitar.

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Kitty Hawk - move me

I wrote this after seeing the Federal Reserve, a collective of established, and like-minded alternative/folk musicians, perform on June 2nd at Iota in Arlington, VA. They played acoustic sets, and used basic folk instruments (including the chair (in post The Federal Reserve from Indie Muse. More by this artist at eMusic Amazont iTunes)

In this ukulele lesson you will learn to play some variations to two chords in the key of C. With small means the chords will sound more exciting. We will start with the A-minor chord:

A-minor is an easy chord to play if your ukulele is tuned in C. C-tuning means that your first string is tuned to an A. The first string is the bottom string when you play.

Here is the A-minor chord written with ukulele tabs:

----0-----

----0-----

----0-----

----2-----

The four lines represent the four strings on your ukulele. The top string indicates the first string with the highest pitch. As before mentioned it is the A-string if you play in C-tuning. The numbers tells you which frets to press down to play the chord.

If you lift up your finger from the fourth string you will get a A-minor seventh chord. Here are the two chords together:

Am Am7

----0---0---

----0---0---

----0---0---

----2---0---

You it is time for you to learn an easy strumming pattern. It consists of eight notes strummed evenly of course in the following manner:

(3)Am (1)Am7 (2)Am (2)Am7

This means, strum three times on Am, once on Am7 and twice on Am and Am7. When you have strummed these eight down strokes you have completed one bar. Play two bars with this pattern and then it is time for the next chord and variation. It will be the F chord and the G11 chord. They look like this:

F G11

----0---0---

----1---1---

----0---0---

----2---0---

Use the same strumming pattern with these two chords and play two bars and you will have a strumming lick that will sound nice.

You can use this pattern in a chord sequence like this for example:

Am / / / Am / / / F / / / F / / /

A principle you can use is to see if you can modify the chords you use in order to make the chords and the strumming patterns more exiting.

Peter Edvinsson invites you to download your free ukulele songs, ukulele chords, ukulele tab melodies and ukulele lessons at http://www.capotastomusic.com

Songwriting - Collaboration Or Aberration - Part 1

Suddenly, you've just invented a device that will change the world as we know it! That's right. You've gone and done it now. Further, only you know what it is to be called, what it looks like, and what it feels like. You are absolutely sure that your invention is worth millions and millions of dollars. In reality, it might actually be worth millions.

Think for a moment. If you really did invent something like this, would you immediately call your friends and worse yet, other inventors, and invite them over to show off your world changing invention? Of course you wouldn't. However, it is surprising that many songwriters break this golden rule due to their raw excitement, the need for immediate gratification, and peer recognition.

Confidentiality (The Golden Rule) is one of the most important elements one needs to understand and employ when engaged in the songwriting process (from beginning to end). The eventual delivery of your song to the public must present a powerful impact to the listener. Impact is everything! It's difficult to maintain strict confidentiality because eventually, assuming that you really did invent the wheel, there will be professional producers, engineers, musicians, copyists, manufacturers and many other types of personnel surrounding you and listening to your song(s). Sooner or later we must rely on the ethics of others. This is the business of music.

Does Perfect exist? No! We all know that. However, one can certainly associate with the most ethical professionals available. Surround yourself with honest people. After all, songwriting is a very serious business. Accept nothing less than ethical and professional conduct from every individual involved with your songwriting projects. Hold everyone to the highest degree and standard of care when it comes to songwriting and collaboration. As you will discover in future articles, collaborating with an inexperienced songwriter is not recommended.

A lack of knowledge, regarding this aspect of the music business, could have tragic financial and creative ownership results. Confidentiality must be maintained when delivering a product to the public. Case-in-point; the recent IPHONE.

Most of us didn't know the IPHONE existed until the inventors held a news conference. Everyone, from the board room to engineering and development maintained the highest degree of confidentiality. Why? Because everyone involved with the product knew that they had, per se, invented the wheel. The top professionals were at the controls here. From invention all the way to advertising and ultimately, release, these individuals employed the highest degree of personal ethics. This is just an educated guess for all to ponder. I'm betting that even most family members of the inventors didn't know about this revolutionary device until release. Now, that's professionalism.

Songwriting demands the same high degree of professionalism, ethics, and confidentiality. When involved in issues such as intellectual property, the stakes become very, very high. Especially if one collaborates with another, or others, throughout the songwriting process.

Some might actually think that they don't need to know much about the music business, or the laws surrounding songwriting, because their song is so good that a big major record company will take care of them. Good luck to all who truly believe in that philosophy. For some, experience will always be the best teacher.

Confidentiality is the Golden Rule pertaining to the business of songwriting. Protect your product. Treat every composition as a potential hit song. Learn the business and legal aspects of songwriting. The truth be known, just one hit song can retire everyone involved. The revenue earned from royalties, sales, and distribution alone is astronomical. What a great incentive for all to learn the business of songwriting.

Throughout the next few articles of this series, many issues regarding songwriting and the business of songwriting will be examined and discussed. Until then, as always, practice, practice, practice.

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[NEWSFLASH] HAROLD HUNTER x ZOO YORK

On May 17th the 2nd Annual Harold Hunter Day brought together NYC’s skateboarding community for a positive day of shredding in honor of the late, great Harold Hunter.  More than five-hundred skaters and spectators swarmed the Manhattan Bridge Skatepark for a heated six-hour session with beats provided by New York’s finest, Pete Rock.  Afterward, the masses flocked to KCDC Skateshop where, in true Harold form, the party bumped late into the night.

In celebration of this noteworthy occasion and to keep Harold’s spirit strong, the non-profit Harold Hunter Foundation has teamed up with The Zoo York Institute to release a limited edition HH Day II commemorative deck and t-shirt featuring Harold pics by long-time friend and acclaimed photographer, Giovanni Reda. 

Both items are now available only at select New York shops including Rival, Autumn, Everything Must Go, Richmond Hood Company, Blades, DQM, and Homage.  Additionally, a special bundled kit including a deck, t-shirt and signed copy of Reda’s “Harold Hunter: The Book” is available exclusively at KCDC.  Proceeds from the sale of all HH Day II commemorative gear will be donated to the Harold Hunter Foundation which will use the funds to send six underprivileged NYC kids to Camp Woodward this summer.

A complete event wrap-up is available at hhday.blogspot.com, and a Harold Hunter Day II podcast shot and produced by RB Umali will release in late June.

To get an idea of where online music is headed it is important to understand the history. Let's think back to the time when music downloads first became popular. For me it was spurred in the early Napster days. Everyone was out there going crazy grabbing any and all music they could find without consequence. Then the RIAA came along and said "wait guys that's our copyrighted content you're downloading." Since that time the RIAA has been fighting an uphill battle to end copyright infringement.

After the early days of Napster and peer to peer file sharing a new crop of sites popped up offering legal music downloads. Even Napster went legit signing deals with major labels to offer unlimited access to their offerings. In order to make this a reality the record industry had to come up with a way to protect their investment.

Along came digital rights management (DRM). New DRM technologies have been used to limit access to media. In essence as long as you are subscribed to Rhapsody for example you can download and listen to as many songs as you like. You can even play them on your mp3 player (excluding iPod and Zune). The DRM kicks in by restricting the number of devices you have access from and cutting access completely when you end the subscription.

In addition, companies chose to run their own brand of DRM. This means that if you own an iPod or Zune player your options are very restricted. Apple and Microsoft do their best to force you into using iTunes and Zune Marketplace.

Over the last couple years things have changed quite a bit. Online retailers including Amazon and Wal-Mart signed deals with the major labels to sell DRM free song downloads. They key here is that you are paying a fee for each MP3 song you download but get the music without DRM restrictions. Even iTunes has started offering DRM free downloads.

Another challenge that faces online media companies is the ISP's battle to reduce network traffic and thus reduce congestion during peak times. The lack of network infrastructure, particularly in the US, is a big concern. Throttling traffic or charging customers for metered access as Comcast and Time Warner are currently testing could drive away customers. We no longer live in a world of text email and static web pages. Sites now offer rich content including streaming audio and video, social integration and an interactive setting for people to gather just as you would at your local watering hole. Hopefully customers will voice their concerns and ISP's will in turn expand their network infrastructures to allow for our ever growing bandwidth needs.

So where does this leave us? I recall mentioning excitement about the future of online downloads prior to my rants. Online music sites are looking ahead to the future. With the ability to download songs to PC, mobile phone or other web-enabled devices you will have access to the latest songs from anywhere at anytime. Sites like eMusic, Amazon MP3 and Wal-Mart Music have shown that the DRM free music is the way of the future. The next step will be to figure a way for sites like Rhapsody and Napster to offer unlimited access to DRM free music for a monthly subscription fee. I'll be the first to admit that this is no easy task but one that could prove very profitable to the music industry in this ever growing digital age.

The excitement extends beyond music as companies like Netflix offer a large selection of movie downloads free to subscribers. We're not talking about just watching on your PC either. With a set top box you can download films to watch directly on your TV. Industry experts predict that within a few years you won't run to your local video store to rent the latest DVD movies. Instead you'll simply watch them anytime on demand via download. Alright so I can hear some of you saying yeah but how long do the movies take to download? I can tell you that with Netflix I can start watching about 30 seconds after the download begins. The rest of the movie downloads while I'm enjoying the film.

In conclusion the future of online media is shining bright. Customer's spending habits can help record labels and ISP's accept that the future of music and movies is online rather than in record and video stores. The instant gratification of having access to millions of songs or thinking of a movie and watching it a minute later is enough to make me want to quit typing. So sit back, relax and enjoy what the future has in store.

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Methods of Programming a Synthesizer

When programming synthesizers and software instruments during the writing process, people generally tend to reach for the presets on the available plug-ins and keyboards.

Although this is a perfectly acceptable way of creating music, but sometimes it may limit the creativity and ultimately hampering the smooth flow to a truly original sound. This may be happen due to various reasons. It may happen because of the lack of know how of the synthesizer or it may also happen due to an instant eagerness for immediate gratification. Some producers may even use some tweaking methods to make it fit for their music.

Well, there are some quick methods of programming a synthesizer that will make it possible to move beyond these techniques and move towards creating your original sounds absolutely from the scratch.

Easy steps to follow while programming a synthesizer

The things which should always be remembered are that programming is less confusing if we do things in this order.

Filter

First we need to carve away the unwanted part of the music. The filters used in the digital synthesizers cuts the sound quickly and effectively.

Envelopes

While programming the envelopes one should not forget to control the filter envelope and then the amp envelope. If there is a slight pitch variation then the pitch envelope should be programmed to set a fast attack and decay with sustain at zero, or where it is in tune after the little pitch burst settles down.

Velocity

Velocity is required to change to a different waveform to adjust a change in timbre of the sound.

LFOs or Low frequency oscillators

It is a modulator. It enables to rhythmically alter the patch in any time sequence from very slow to very fast. To get a 3 dimensional sound, slow LFOs should be used to modulate panning and volume.

Effects

Different effects and overtones are added to the music at the end of the programming. It gives an extra edge to the music which has been created. While building an effect patch, there is no hard and fast rule about what type of oscillators or envelopes to use.

This may enable to reach for any basic subtractive synthesizer, hardware or software, and mold some compelling basic sound types. We create a patch in order to use it in a composition. While making patches and use them in a test sequence, one should always keep the sequencer on.

The main form of modulation that brings the synthesizer sound effect to life is a delayed sine wave LFO routed to the filter cutoff. The delay is timed in such a way that it starts to kick in as the filter envelope drops.

Most of the time, the main oscillator needs to be turned off, although if the synthesizer supplies a noise source, some noises are sometimes useful because it is non-musical in tone.

Conclusion

While programming a synthesizer, it is just a matter of knowing which parameters are required to be changed to achieve the desired results, and once those causes and effects are learnt, we only have to patch them together.

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Musicians - Building a Fan Base

Building a fan base is an important step for any band interested in elevating their recording and performing career. With attention and planning, even a modest following can become a powerful tool to support an artist's work and expand their popularity.

People are attracted to bands on musical, cultural, social, sensory and spiritual levels. While fitting in to current trends may result in a rush of flavor-of-the-month fans, the artists who pursue and stay true to their own musical vision appear to have a greater chance at creating a broad, dedicated fan base. Rolling Stone contributed Kentucky-based band My Morning Jacket's broad success to their unique musical vision, noting "The band's ecstatic, spacey records and improv-heavy live shows are as popular with Bonnaroo hippies as they are with New York hipsters." Frontman Jim James told the magazine, "We love that...Looking in the audience and seeing frat boys, indie rockers and maybe some sixty-year-old women."

In the digital age, artists shouldn't be afraid to give music away in order to reach more people. Andrew Dubber of NewMusicStrategies.com wrote an article titled "The 20 Things You MUST Know About Music Online" which counsels musicians to "forget product--sell relationship." In a recent interview, Dubber told HomeTracked.com: "I recommend (musicians) recognize that their recordings are not the totality of their economic value. Recordings are idealized performances that show musicians in their best light. These are the best promotional tools available...And if records are the way you want to make your money, just think of it this way: it used to be that youd press 1000 copies, give away 200 promos, and hope to sell the other 800. Now you can press 1000 copies, give away a million copies and sell the thousand."

Once a band has earned a few fans by playing shows and giving away music, it's important to retain their interest and encourage networking by keeping them up to date with current songs, concerts and a steady flow of appealing merchandise. The digital age presents a number of ways to accomplish this, with maintaining a web site, posting profiles on social music sites like Echoboost.com, email, internet radio, podcasts and social video sites. Performing Songwriter suggests networking through cell phones using fan club text messaging services like Broadtexter, which "enables North America-based musicians to create free Mobile Fan Clubs which easily allow them to use regionalized text messaging to stay connected with fans."

At the end of the day, it's vital for bands to take their relationships with fans as seriously as their music. The acts who consistently provide people with appealing music, quality live performances and a steady stream of positive interaction will undoubtedly increase their chances of long-term loyalty.

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Legal Music Sharing Sites

So here is a quick guide comparing legal music sites with p2p file sharing sites. So now, sharing free MP3 music and downloading them from legal websites is completely legit. Amount of Music Downloads Available to: The p2p file sharing networks heavily out number the legal music sites when it comes to the amount of files available for download.

If you download music over file-sharing networks and are caught, what will be your legal defense? Since it's impossible to determine which free music downloads may be legitimate, the only sure way to stay legal is to avoid these type file sharing programs altogether. Research in Austria suggests that consumers fear legal action against file sharing (illegal music downloads).

Furthermore, when searching online for music download sites, it can be very hard to tell the difference between legal music sites and file sharing sites. The ease of downloading all types of music, and particularly wedding music via the Internet and through both illegal and legal file sharing programs has gone up exponentially as the availability of such programs has increased. In answer to this first question, there is nothing such as free music downloading from the Internet, unless you have some file sharing software installed on your computer, some of which are legal and others are not.

Although there have been some questions raised on the legal issues involved with online peer-to-peer file sharing, continued patronage of free MP3 music downloads has never quite died down.

Get Your Music Files from Legal Sources

If you've been downloading music using P2P (peer-to-peer) file sharing programs like KaZaa, you will very likely get music files which have strange names like HeyjAck. John Kennedy, IFPI (International Federation of Phonogram and Videogram Producers) Chairman and CEO, had this to say, "We are now seeing real evidence that people are increasingly put off by illegal file-sharing and turning to legal ways of enjoying music online. The message is simple: if you're hungry for music but don't want to break the law, there are numerous legal alternatives to file sharing.

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Acoustic Guitar

Is it the fact that the acoustic guitar is harder to play? Or is it, that it has a more natural sound? Personally I just love what comes out of them (most of the time anyway)! Too me there is not too many things as cool as an acoustic guitar tuned to and open chord. I love the fact that when I do this all the notes are in different places and I come up with new things that I would have in standard tuning.

Maybe it's the fact that there is no distortion or reverb or anything else coming out of an amp. It's just the guitar. Simple as that.

As a kid I hated the acoustic guitar because it was so hard to play. I remember trying to play chords and how bad they sounded. But overtime as I got better at it and practiced it more and more I began to fall in love with the sound. Even the feel. I now love the fact that it is a little harder to play. It's comfortable at this point.

I also love the fact that I can take an acoustic guitar with me and go walk into some field where t
What is it about the acoustic guitar that everybody loves? I know so many players of all types of music. Some of them love every kind of music; some of them only like their kind of music. All of them however love any kind of music we play on acoustic guitar. We can play folk tunes together or blues or fiddle tunes, it doesn't matter we just jam.
here is no one around and just play. If you have never sat on a rock by a stream with the sun reflecting off the water and just had a jam I highly recommend it. No one around, no distractions, just you the guitar and nature. It's pretty amazing.

I think maybe there are a many reasons to love acoustics, as there are players. It's just a beautiful invention and I am glad I got involved with acoustic guitars.

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Guitar Effects

I'm sure you have seen some fancy wah pedals at your local music shop by now. There are a ton of different effect pedals that you can use to change your tone very quickly. Not only are there tones of different brands and products but there are a tone of different effects that each manufacturer can make.

Distortion

Distortion pedals give your guitar that mean and nasty sound you hear with heavy metal and rock music. It takes the wave signal made by your guitar and instead of making it a nice curved line it chops off the tops and makes them flat. You can also make this sound if you have a gain control on your amp. If you bump up the gain and turn down the amp you will overdrive the signal making it distorted.

Reverb and Delay

Reverb and Delay pedals are similar in effect but not sound. They both take your guitars sound and reproduce it a few times over and over. This makes an echo sound out of your amplifier. The difference is that Reverb makes it sound like you are playing in a very large room. The delay effect simply makes the guitar sound like is echoing. Both effects can be manipulated so that they sound different, like making the echo last longer or making the room sound bigger or whatnot.

Wah Pedals

Wah pedals are a very popular pedal that is used in all types of music. The wah pedal is closely related to a filter. It picks out certain tones and doesn't let them through. The thing that makes the wah pedal so great is that you can adjust what frequencies it cancels out just by rocking it back or forth. It works great in funk metal and blues and is one of the most widely used effects.

Flanger and Phaser

A flanger pedal takes the guitar's signal, doubles it, and mixes the two signals slightly out of time with each other. A phaser takes the signal and splits it into two parts like the flanger, but instead, one path keeps the volume and amplitude characteristics and the other path makes the phase out of synch. In short, a phaser effect still has the original sound mixed with the phased effect, whereas a flanger mixes up the signal completely.

Effects in General

Effects have become popular in all types of music, some effects are more prominent in some styles than others but overall you can usually find effects mixed in somewhere. The tricky part about using effects is that you can't over use them in a song or it will take away the fealing from the music completely. The best effects are the ones that are there but you can't notice them unless you really listen for them.