Yearly Archives: 2012

Welcome to the May 16, 2012 Events Horizon, our weekly news update concerning upcoming shows featuring members and friends of the Guitar Noise community.

Hello! And welcome to the May 15, 2012 edition of Guitar Noise News, your free twice-a-month newsletter from Guitar Noise.

If you’re going to take up the ukulele, be sure to get an instrument and not a toy! Here are some tips on finding your first uke.

Learn how to harmonize the major scale and create diatonic chords in the final part of Jim Bowley’s trilogy, “The Only Theory Lesson You’ll Ever Need.”

To make money in the music business, you have to think about music as a business. Tom Hess provides you with insights on how to start making your musical monetary goals come true.

Catch your friends at Guitar Noise when they perform! Here’s the lastest list of gigs for the upcoming two weeks.

After reading part one, we’ve now got the basic terminology of counterpoint behind us. We now move on to writing counterpoint melodies.

Counterpoint is a style of music where you have multiple instruments doing different things at the same time, adding up to something bigger than its parts.

We’re making this newsletter a little briefer this time out but, rest assured, we’ll be back with a lot more to discuss in the May 15 issue.

There’s a little bit of everything in this lesson, from easy arpeggios and strumming to some basic Travis style finger picking patterns. As always, David picks the song apart into small pieces that even many beginners can get with some concerted practice. Have fun learning this Harry Chapin classic!

Whether you are just starting out or you’ve been playing guitar for a while, there are all sorts of things to consider when playing live in front of others.

Voice leading, a vital component of harmony and composing, should be part of every guitarist’s technique. Here’s a great introduction to this musical topic.

Here are some great tips for you to improve on your basic music notation reading skills in order to become better (and quicker!) at sight reading.

Finding Clyde is one of those rising rock voices that is rippling through the sonic landscape.  The hard rocking band has shared the stage with Slash.

He may be known forever as “the Father of Loud,” but James Charles Marshall, creator of the Marshall Amp, had the true gift of a musician – he listened.

Hello and welcome to the last Event’s Horizon for April, 2012, our weekly post where you can get news and pertinent information concerning upcoming shows.

Tom Hess discusses how to improve your 7-string guitar playing by using the unique aspects of the instrument to guide you and to help improve your skills.

The birds are starting in singing earlier every morning, which is a sure sign that every day is going to be filled with music!

Can anyone really play 10, 15, or 20,000 different chords? Yep, you bet. Tom reveals the system for navigating the fretboard that he teaches his students.

“Happy New Year” to those of you in Thailand or Nepal, both of which celebrated the occasion on Friday the 13th.