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Welcome to Volume 3, Issue #100 of Guitar Noise News! This week we have a very special announcement about another guitar book by David Hodge. FODfest 2009 is also underway and we have more information on this year’s performances.

Welcome to Volume 3, Issue #99 of Guitar Noise News! We have a new lesson on guitar technique from Tom Hess, plus a new topic for the month and a profile of guitar legend Eric Clapton.

Welcome to Volume 3, Issue #98 of Guitar Noise News! We have three new lessons to share, plus an update from Alan Green about his new teaching gig.

Tom “Noteboat” Serb is celebrating the first year of his music school, the Midwest Music Academy. One year ago today we ran a short interview with Tom and this would certainly be a great time to post it once again.

Welcome to Volume 3, Issue #97 of Guitar Noise News! Our topic of the month for September is all about teaching. This month we also put a spotlight on the Beatles, as well as on all the various Beatles song lessons available here at Guitar Noise.

All of us at Guitar Noise want to congratulate Alan as he starts off teaching guitar and music pretty close to full time! Get to know one of our Guitar Noise Moderators a little better – you might see him on television one day!

The Beatles are probably the most talked about and listened to rock band of all time. It’s very easy to forget that we’re talking thirteen albums, more than half of which were recording in the span of four years. This month we put the spotlight on the Beatles, as well as on all the various Beatles song lessons available here at Guitar Noise.

We’ve gotten a lot of questions about how to turn a song into a single guitar arrangement and the first part of the answer is that you have to learn the song! In this lesson we break down this White Stripes’ song into its component parts – bass, rhythm and lead (learning them on the electric guitar) – so that we can later create a single acoustic guitar arrangement of this song.

This time out, Jamie guides you through the bridge section of While My Guitar Gently Weeps, providing detailed step-by-step instruction on how to move effortlessly from one fingering position to the next.

Back in August 2003, I was still in Chicago but I got my first look at where I would end up moving to the coming New Year’s Day. Looking back now, I’m tempted to say that some of the unsettledness had a subliminal effect in my choosing Cat’s Steven’s “Wild World” as a new Easy Songs for Beginners lesson.

Welcome to the August 15 issue of Guitar Noise News. Our big news this time out is the announcement of the 2009 FODfest tour. We also mark the passing of Les Paul, who passed away earlier this week at the age of 94.

There are few people who have contributed so much to rock music, to music in general, and to the recording industry, as Les Paul. Join us in honoring this true musical legend who passed away this week at the age of 94.

Setting the “Wayback Machine” for 2006 led me to Josh Urban’s first piece for Guitar Noise and since ear training and listening is a huge part of learning to solo, it seemed to make sense to use it as a feature. Plus, any lesson from Doug Sparling, be it new or old, is certainly worth a read!

Welcome to August and what is hopefully the August 1 issue of Guitar Noise News. We have some exciting book news, a bio on Bob Marley and a new topic of the month. Also in the newsletter is a new essay from Nick Torres from our Playing Well With Others series.

I had to do a little checking, but this week is another Guitar Noise anniversary – somewhere around July 15, 2003, we posted our first (and only!) video lesson! If you’ve ever wanted to see what Nick Torres’ fingers looked like, here’s your chance! Plus we also had a great article on replacing pickups, courtesy [...]

Welcome to Guitar Noise News Vol. 3 # 94. There’s a lot going on but not so much in the way of news. Charley wants you do know that “Cats Do Control Humans.”

You might have read about the Next Big Nashville, the huge city-wide music festival that takes place in the fall and includes hundreds of regional bands and musicians in our recent article on America’s great “Music City”
We’ve just gotten the news that the call is out for musician’s interested in submitting their band for consideration [...]

Welcome to Volume 3, Issue #93 of Guitar Noise News! Things are going fast and furious with the writing of “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Playing Rock Guitar.”

Here is the second part of Jamie Andreas’ wonderful video lessons on the Guitar Noise arrangement of George Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.” In this video, Jamie walks through the verse section of the song, providing detailed step-by-step instruction on how to move effortlessly from one fingering position to the next. By applying many [...]

Even if you managed to somehow get through your life and not hear the album, Thriller, you have certainly listened to music (not to mention musicians and songwriters) influenced by this best selling album of all time.