Yearly Archives: 2006

Here’s a wonderful simple and sparse arrangement of this traditional song from the Outer Hebrides. It’s a beautiful song and, like Doug, you’ll be thrilled to add it to your holiday repertoire.

Guitar Noise welcomes writer / bassist Helena Bouchez to our pages with the first of a series of discussions with prominent bass players. Here, renowned bassist Victor Bailey (Weather Report) muses on how to go about making good music.

Guitar Noise Newsletter for December 15, 2006 with all the latest site news and updates. Written by David Hodge.

If you’re someone who feels you learn better with visual aids, there’s a lot here to help. You get good views of both the left and right hands play cool features like interactive chord charts (not to mention a two hundred and fifty chord dictionary) and animated fretboards.

Guitar Noise Newsletter for December 01, 2006 with all the latest site news and updates. Written by David Hodge.

Doug brings us another beautiful Christmas carol, arranged in standard tuning. This one is quite catchy and Doug also gives us a fascinating bit of history concerning the history of Christmas carols in Britain.

Paul Andrews makes a long awaited return to Guitar Noise with the sequel to his February lesson on power chords. Here you’ll find the lowdown on augmented and diminished power chords, plus examples from everyone from Bush to Hendrix to Metallica to Eminem.

Guitar Noise Newsletter for November 15, 2006 with all the latest site news and updates. Written by David Hodge.

Everyone wants to get their playing tight and solid, rhythm-wise. Rob Gravelle returns to the pages of Guitar Noise with some great tips for working with your metronome instead of having a frustrating time with it.

Guitar Noise Newsletter for November 01, 2006 with all the latest site news and updates. Written by David Hodge.

Here is a beautiful Christmas hymn, wonderfully arranged in DADGAD tuning for us by Doug Sparling. What a great way to kick off the holiday season!

Live @ The Fat Cat, the latest CD from the impossibly talented trio of Sheryl Bailey (guitar), Gary Versace (Hammond B3 organ) and Ian Froman (drums), was recorded last November in one of New York City’s top jazz clubs and displays the Sheryl Bailey 3 at its finest.

A virtual workshop on great guitar playing across many styles and genres, Eric Mantel’s The Unstruck Melody is sure to strike a chord with some part of your musical psyche.

Guitar Noise Newsletter for October 15, 2006 with all the latest site news and updates. Written by David Hodge.

Guitar Noise Newsletter for October 01, 2006 with all the latest site news and updates. Written by David Hodge.

DC Slater is a former student of Berklee College of Music and participates in the SoundAid project to fight hunger. His latest mixes Grunge with a bit of Satch and Eddie Van Halen.

Guitar Noise Newsletter for September 15, 2006 with all the latest site news and updates. Written by David Hodge.

Guitar Noise Forum member Mitch (Slejhamer) Schlesinger gives us his review of David’s first tutorial book. I was glad to see that this book has a different presentation style than the typical bass method book. It is much more discussion oriented, which gives it a unique teaching value that I found very helpful for self-study.

Guitar Noise Newsletter for September 01, 2006 with all the latest site news and updates. Written by David Hodge.

There is a first time for everything. In 2003 Tommy Chong, one half of the comedy duo Cheech & Chong, was sent to jail because his son’s company Chong Glass shipped glass water-pipes, also known as bongs, across state lines. To publicly tout the success of their Operation Pipe Dreams sting, government prosecutors sought to [...]