Tip: The Subdominant Chord
You don’t need to know a bazillion chords in order to make music. In fact, there are only three you need to know: the tonic, dominant and subdominant.
You don’t need to know a bazillion chords in order to make music. In fact, there are only three you need to know: the tonic, dominant and subdominant.
To celebrate the release of Photograph: The Very Best of Ringo Starr, we are giving two lucky winners an album litho and a copy of the album. To enter this contest you need to give us a word that rhymes with “Ringo.” The contest is open until October 13, 2007 at midnight. Winners will be […]
The “Big Picture” of making music helps you understand how music works. Without that, then scales, chords and maybe even songs will make no sense.
In celebration of the 25th Anniversary Release of George Thorogood’s legendary “Bad to the Bone” album we are giving away a custom made (by George himself) signed guitar slide along with a copy of “Bad to the Bone: The 25th Anniversary Edition”. These are the exact same slides that George uses on stage. In addition […]
It really just happened by chance that the fiftieth issue of our current newsletter also falls on another anniversary. It was five years ago this week, that I handed over the reins of Guitar Noise News to David. At the time I was probably complaining that I had too much work to do. It was […]
None of us practice as much as we’d like to, let alone as much as we think we should. There’s work, school, family, friends, and no end of the little things that happen in life. And when a moment of free time comes along, well, who wouldn’t like to sit and just enjoy it by […]
Let me be the first to welcome you to the official Guitar Noise blog. Now you can stay up to date with all the latest site info posted by the Guitar Noise crew. We want to open the lines of communication and interaction a little further, and from now on you’ll learn about changes to […]
When people learn an instrument, it’s easy to get caught up in copying the riffs and styles of one’s idols. Fortunately, Al Caldwell took some advice from Anthony Jackson to heart and learned to be himself, finding his own voice as both bass player and musician.