Newsletter Vol. 2 # 114 – March 06, 2005
Welcome to the latest issue of Guitar Noise News.
In This Issue
- News and Announcements
- New Articles and Lessons
- Hot off the Press (Releases)
- Forum News
- Sunday Songwriter’s Group
- Reviews
- Thoughts and Feedback
News And Announcements
Greetings!
Welcome to Guitar Noise News!
In case you missed last week’s announcement, allow me to once again present the “first part of 2005” slate of Guitar Noise Seminars:
APRIL 16 – LITTLE TOUCHES SEMINAR
On of the easiest ways to improve your guitar playing is to add some little touches to your strumming or picking. This can be anything from a simple hammer-on to adding an appropriate bass line or flourish of notes when changing between chords. We’ll examine and practice a good many of these and also use familiar songs as demonstrations.
MAY 14 – EASY SONGS SEMINAR
As you know from reading my columns and lessons here at Guitar Noise, I’m a big proponent of learning guitar by playing songs. In this seminar we’ll take a dozen or so songs and learn what we can from them. Some of the songs will be ones from our “Easy Songs for Beginners” lessons, but most of them will be old favorites that we’ve not covered from songwriters such as the Beatles, Neil Young, Paul Simon and Van Morrison. There will be both fingerstyle and straight strumming songs. Bring a capo!
JUNE 11 “MAKE YOUR OWN” SEMINAR
Here’s your chance to learn an arrangement for a song that you’ve always wanted to do. We will ask each participant to select one or two songs and then, as a group, we will learn them. Owing to the nature of this seminar, enrollment will have to be limited from six to eight participants. A list of the songs to be covered will be made as soon as humanly possible.
All Guitar Noise Seminars will be held at my home just outside of Great Barrington, Massachusetts. It’s a big tourist area and there’s plenty to do if you want to bring your family and make a weekend out of it. Each seminar is $100 for the day’s lessons and materials and also includes food and (nonalcoholic) drinks. And you can always stay afterwards and jam the evening away!
If you’re interested or have any questions at all, please either IM me via the forum or email me and include “Seminar” in the subject line. I look forward to hearing from you.
And now let’s see what’s new online this week at Guitar Noise:
New Articles And Lessons
The Art Of Practicing – How To See Real Results
by Chris Standring
Chris Standring of playjazzguitar.com makes his Guitar Noise debut with a wonderful piece about how to get more out of your practice. He provides a very detailed, step-by-step process that will help you to see results in your playing.
Hot Off The Press (Release)
This week I received this notice from Milan Kovacev, the Interactive Marketing Manager of Berklee College of Music, located just a few hours from me over on the eastern side of Massachusetts. Boston, to be exact!
Berkleemusic Announces New Online Guitar Programs And Certificate Programs
Berkleemusic is now enrolling four new online guitar courses and five new college credit online certificate programs for their spring semester, beginning on April 4th.
Expand your knowledge of the major, minor, Pentatonic, Dorian, Mixolydian and blues scales in Guitar Scales 101. Gain a foundation in form, control, feel and harmonies in the Blues Workshop, or sharpen your recording skills and add a more personal sound to your playing in Recording and Producing for Guitarists and the Amps, Effects and Getting Your Guitar Sound online courses.
New online college credit certificate programs include Production and Guitar, Songwriting and Guitar, Recording and Production for Guitar, Recording and Production for Guitar with Pro Tools and Guitar Skills.
Taught by Berklee’s world-renowned guitar faculty, these online guitar courses and programs provide essential knowledge to all serious guitarists interested in advancing their recording skills and adding expression, depth, and feeling to their playing. Space is limited and financial aid is available.
For more information Visit: http://online.berklee.edu/
Forum News
A few weeks ago I brought your attention to Electrablue, one of our forum members from Texas, and the project one of her friends is working on, a series of compilation CDs to be sold with the proceeds going toward the long-term help for the relief efforts of people directly affected by last December’s tsunami.
This week, I’d like to bring your attention to Electrablue herself as she and fellow forum member Wes Inman are now the newest members of our moderating team! Having met and played with Wes, I can certainly say that he has the patience and common sense to take on such a task. And both of them have been absolutely unselfish in giving of their time to the Guitar Noise community.
So the next time you’re over on the forums, be sure to give both Electrablue and Wes a hearty congratulations and please don’t make them work any harder than they have too!
Sunday Songwriters Group
Year Three, Week 18
Search Me! – This week’s assignment is courtesy of Nick. This week type your own name into Google (or a search engine of your choice) and write about what comes up. If, like me, nothing comes up, then feel free to try family or friends names. Keep it clean and this side of libel.
Have fun and good writing!
Bob
Reviews
An Evening with International Guitar Night
featuring Pierre Bensusan, Andrew York, and Brian Gore
CD Review by A-J Charron
Four very talented and very different guitarists indulge in playing their own compositions. They favour us with the best they have to offer in both composing and playing. The result is an incredible album with everything blending in together so perfectly.
Thoughts & Feedback
We’re running a very brief newsletter this week as both Paul and I are entangled in a few other things. Next week I’ll try to bring you up to speed on that and also we’ll get some new stories and tips about playing with others.
In the meantime, I hope you all have a grand week. Stay safe.
And, as always,
Peace
David