Newsletter Vol. 1 # 49 – April 19, 2002

Hello Guitar Players,

Welcome to the April 19, 2002 issue of Guitar Noise News. I don’t want to get into the habit of doing this every week, but I’m going to do it again this week anyway. I want to share another email with you that I received recently.

I have been playing poor guitar for about 33 years and your site has given me more pleasure than all of the thousands of dollars of music books I’ve bought over the years put together. In the few months that I have known about the site I’ve put a half a dozen songs in my repertoire. I feel a little guilty because you never ask me to buy anything. My admiration and thanks go to all of you.

All thank you letters should be addressed to everyone at the site. We all put a lot into it. It is true what you put in, is what you get out. The same applies for your guitar studies. Next time you learn something valuable here and you want to fire off a thank you, choose anyone’s address from our Contact Page. It is not necessary to start at the top of the list either. I think the order of names is based on how long we’ve worked here.

In this newsletter:

News
New Guitar Lessons
Acoustic Guitar Tip
Recommended Reading
CD Reviews
New Links
Email of the Week

Why not help a fellow musician? You can do them a favor by forwarding them this newsletter.

News and Announcements

Lesa McCabe wins awards!

This announcement is copied directly from the Guitar Forums:

Congrats to GuitarNoise contributor Lesa McCabe and Payday Daddy! They brought home a lot of hardware from their regional “Best of Music” awards.
Payday Daddy…..first place, BEST ROCK BAND!
Richard Arriola….first place,BEST LEAD GUITARIST!
Lesa McCabe…3rd place, BEST BASS PLAYER!( the first woman to be nominated)….
Lesa McCabe…3rd place, BEST FEMALE VOCALIST!
Mike Craig….2nd Place, BEST DRUMMER!
Richard Arriola…3rd place, BEST MALE VOCALIST!
Kent & Lesa McCabe….3rd place, BEST SONG WRITTERS
Album of the year…2nd Place, GUMBY GOT DRUNK!

Guitar and Bass Lessons

Pattern-playing in Bebop Scales – not just for Jazz
by Hans Fahling (19 Apr 2002)
Picking up where we left off in the first column, “Chromaticism”, and with the foundation acquired through it, it becomes very easy now to get into some great lines that weave in and out of those inside chord tones. I want to illustrate this on two examples, which, when developed patiently over several days of practice, will give you incredible speed and metric control in your playing.

Interview With Kelly Richey
by Laura Lasley (19 Apr 2002)
Kelly Richey is a blues-rock guitarist who has been compared to Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan, for her amazing guitar leads. Her new album, Sending Me Angels is a must check out. For Kelly’s viewpoint on learning the guitar, teaching music, electric vs. acoustic, and practicing music read on!

Acoustic Guitar Tips

This week our tip comes to us courtesy of Guitar Man Acoustic Guitar Tips.

Practice Neck

Hi Gman…
You have helped many people with your experience and I thank you for advice you have given me. I have a suggestion/tip that may help other beginners.

My Suggestion: No excuses for not practicing chords when away from the guitar-

I didn’t want to invest money in a bottom-end guitar and then have to carry it around to take advantage of any free time that opens up to sit down for a little while and run through my learning routine.

I made a substitute top portion of a guitar neck out of a small piece of wood, drew some fret lines, tapped in 6 finishing nails on each end half-way and tied monofiliment fishing line to each pair to simulate the 6 strings. PRESTO!… my spare guitar to practice learning my chords and getting my fingers used to being in those positions and I can take it anywhere!

As a true beginner I can see already that learning to read the tabs (again from the G-man site) and memorizing the chords is one thing but making it happen without thinking about it as a reflex is another and this will take time. Practicing with every spare moment is the answer.

The sooner we can remember chords and get our fingers to execute them naturally, the sooner we can start having some real fun!

I hope this helps other folks as it is helping me.

Thanks Gman. – Joe Morgani

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For more tips visit Guitar Man Acoustic Guitar Tips.

CD Reviews

Default – The Fallout
The band Default is more alternative than their hard rock label. Many of their songs hang around the key of D and seem more like descending or ascending progressions. Every other song seems to start out with some simple feedback to get it all going, which I rather feel to be a nuisance since it adds to the lack of variety throughout the album.

Elton Dean and Mark Hewins – Bar Torque
Now this is a very interesting album. Saxophonist Elton Dean and guitarist Mark Hewins have put their skills together to improvise an album.These guys started doing this to open gigs and were soon told by people in the audience that they had something here. And so they decided to put it to the test.

New Sites

Big Road Blues – All things blues — with slide guitar lessons, harp lessons, a very lively (and friendly) forum and more!
Blues Shuffle In E – This is a fun little lesson that will have you playing the blues in just a few short minutes. Please take the time to check it out now, because I think you’ll really enjoy it.

Email of the Week

Each week we take one of the more interesting letters we have received and post it and our response here.

Bass Guitar Notes
I just know how to play bass by tabs, but i what to learn how to read music notes…without going to a school…I just want to know what note corresponds to each number of a tab…Can you help me?? bye..

David’s Response
Thanks for writing. Here are the bass notes (from the bass clef) and their TAB conterparts.

I hope this helps!

Peace

David Hodge

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Paul Hackett
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