Monthly Archives: December 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.