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It's exactly ten years ago today I opened my music school. Tens of thousands of lessons later it's still a lot of fun. The best part of this past week? One of the students who was with us on day one was a nine year old girl who wanted to learn to play piano. On Thursday she came in for her lesson - ...

Minute/second isn't much use to a musician, because we don't think of time that way. We think of time in beats or in measures . Either one of those will tell you when the chord changes; minutes/seconds won't, unless you're looking at the clock - and if you are, you're not really thinking about the m...

Take the top of the guitar. If you're going to do it right, you need to be able to clamp the joint you're gluing. You're gluing two pieces together: the neck that's snapped off, and the neck block - which is inside the body. So... how are you going to clamp it? The distance from the sound hole to th...

I haven't seen that specific construction before - it was doweled to the neck block (a wood support inside the body). Most guitars with a separate neck block use a dovetail joint with a lot more gluing surface and supporting wood. It's probably fixable, but not easy. And the effort probably isn't wo...

It's a broken wire (or insulation) somewhere. As you play, sometimes it's in a position to carry current to the amp, and sometimes it's not - either through a gap if it's a broken wire, or a short if it's insulation. First thing to try: use a different patch cord. Because they move around so much, t...

When you changed gauges, you changed the string tension. The pitch of a vibrating string depends on three things: it's length, it's tension, and it's mass. The length part didn't change - your scale length is still 25.5 inches - but you've changed the string mass considerably. If your strings are th...

Yeah, it's going to be 10 years on August 18th since we opened our doors. We've had quite a few ups and downs, the worst one being the reconstruction of the road we're on right after we moved to larger quarters, which took over 3 years to finish. That was pretty rough on us. But now that it's done w...

The choris ends in with a d chord back in black lyrics Yes, it does. And it doesn't feel like the song is over at that point, because the D leaves you hanging. You get that feeling because D is not the tonic (which means it isn't the "key"). The song ends on the album by fading out, but if you end ...

Actually this piece is in the key of d Maj relative b minor. It appears that the opening power chord of e is a minor chord. Iv-v-i progression. What angus has done here has switched the iv chprd gmaj for its relative e minor.A brilliant mive on his part . It moves from E5 to D5 to A5. If it were in...

A picture would help, because I have too many questions to imagine the damage.... is it an acoustic or semi-hollow body? Where is the knob mounted? etc.

But yeah, from your brief description it's probably repairable. The question is really whether it's cheaper to repair than replace.

I've been a guitar teacher for a long time (next month it will be 40 years!). In that time I've taught thousands of people, many of whom became gigging guitarists, and at least three are currently making a living as guitar teachers themselves. I disagree with the statement, because it confuses the "...

Megadethhead wrote: ↑

March 21st, 2018, 12:42 pm

If you can play like Yngwie you can play anything

I strongly disagree.

Yngwie plays single note lines and nothing else. That's not being able to "play anything".

He does what he does very well, but that's all he does.

Glad you found it useful. I do a lot more flute/sax/clarinet work than anything else (probably because those instruments need regular routine stuff like pad and cork replacement, and our students know I do all the work in-house). A lot of what I've figured out about guitar repairs actually comes fro...

You won't hear any difference between them. Any meter with 7 beats per measure can be represented with any note as the beat. The identical rhythm can be written as 7/8, 7/4, 7/16, 7/32, 7/2, or even 7/1. The advantage of any one over another depends on how the beats are combined, divided, and subdiv...

It can be repaired. But if you pay someone to do it, the cost will be prohibitive, because you're looking at a ton of hours of labor. The back will have to come off, and be refitted together. That's no simple task on an arched back. The back binding will have to be replaced (part of it is missing). ...