I geek out about custom, well crafted made things. Objects where you can feel the quality, know it’s one of a kind, and that’ll last you a lifetime. The other thing that is of the utmost importance to me, is that the company I’m dealing with has great customer service.
StrapGraphics is a guitar strap manufacturer that’s been making straps in the U.S. since 2008. They’re based out of Portland, and offer a range of straps that are incredibly customizable. When I’m talking about great customer service, I’m talking about Nate from SG, who helped me along with the process, and was a breeze to deal with.
String skipping can turn run of the mill riffs into really exciting ones. The technique also helps you break out of the box of playing scales up and down the fretboard. Practicing string skipping in your warm up can help you be more accurate as your practice session goes on. Today I want to show you how to improve your string skipping by using a familiar set of patterns that you may already know.
Getting lost on the fretboard is one of the most discouraging things while playing. Today we're going to learn a bunch of different examples to help you never get lost on the fretboard again! All the examples use the octave method to find your way around the fretboard, whether that be high up on the guitar neck or down low.
Every post I write, every email I send out, every link I post on social media, I do it knowing that at the end of the day, I want to make Chasing Sound a site that I'd enjoy as a guitar player.
From years of teaching experience, and research on teaching itself, it's been known that people learn differently.
Today through Monday I'm going to be running a poll to see which way you enjoy learning guitar the most.
I've received lots of great feedback lately about the types of posts you're looking to read. I want to take that information coupled with this poll and make some of the most helpful guitar posts on the internet.
Please let me know if you like learning with audio examples or by ear, by using notation or tab, or by watching video. You can also let me know if you use a combination of all three!
I woke up to the terrible news that one of rock's all time icons had passed away. Chris was the lead singer of Soundgarden and Audioslave, and also had many great solo albums.
CNN first broke the news of Cornell's death:
A family friend called 911 around midnight Thursday after he went to check on Cornell and found the musician "unresponsive" on the bathroom floor at the MGM Grand hotel, spokesman Michael Woody said. Emergency medical personnel arrived, and Cornell was pronounced dead at the scene, he said.
"We are moving in the direction of a possible suicide but we are waiting on the Medical Examiner's Office to provide their report," Woody said. Cornell was in Detroit performing with Soundgarden on a US tour that kicked off last month. His passing was "sudden and unexpected," his representative, Brian Bumbery, said in a statement to CNN.
"His wife Vicky and family were shocked to learn of his sudden and unexpected passing, and they will be working closely with the medical examiner to determine the cause," the statement read. "They would like to thank his fans for their continuous love and loyalty and ask that their privacy be respected at this time."
I'll never forget listening to Soundgarden as a teenager, when one of my friends handed me a copy of Down On The Upside. I've said over the past couple of decades that Chris was one of my top 3 singers of all time, but honestly...I never knew who the other 2 were. Chris was always a constant.
May he Rest In Peace.
There are many guitarists who have made the Digitech Whammy their own - Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, the late Dimebag Darrell from Pantera, Kirk Hammett from Metallica, the Edge of U2, and of course Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave. Today we're going to be talking about a couple of players who you may or may have not heard of. Their Whammy work has been inspiring.
Yngwie Malmsteen is a man out of time. I feel like he would be friends with the great composers back in the ages of Bach and Mozart. Having listened to Malmsteen’s albums for nearly 20 years, it was eye opening to see him perform live. I was able to get some good insight as to what still makes him one of the best guitarists of our time. Here’s what I learned
