Newsletter Vol. 2 # 99 – November 14, 2004

Welcome to the latest issue of Guitar Noise News.

In This Issue

• News and Announcements
• New Articles and Lessons
• Worth a Look
• Forum News
• Sunday Songwriter’s Group
• Reviews
• Thoughts and Feedback

News And Announcements

Greetings!

Welcome to Guitar Noise News!

Since, for me, it’s four in morning on Saturday, let’s get right into things, shall we? Here’s a look at what’s new at Guitar Noise since our last newsletter:

New Articles And Lessons

Legato Playing: Step By Step Technique Vol. III
by Hans Fahling

In the third and final section of Hans’ tutorial on legato playing, he focuses on specific riffs and the “horizontal” playing of them. If you’ve been keeping up with this three-part series, and by that I mean practicing as well as reading, then you will undoubtedly be getting proficient at this technique.

Worth A Look

And if you’ve just joined us and find that you wish to take a look at Hans’ earlier articles, you can find them here:

• Legato Playing: Step By Step Technique Vol. I
• Legato Playing: Step By Step Technique Vol. II

And be certain to check out all of Hans’ terrific pieces on our Jazz page!

Forum News

Trust good old Nick Torres (not to be confused with Jolly Old Saint Nick), Musenfreund, Greybeard, Alan Green and our other intrepid moderators to come up some good ideas. I’m please to announce the launch of two new forum pages. The first, and I love the title of the page, is to provide a place for people to link to lessons not on the Guitar Noise site. Why? Well, believe it or not, there are some great articles on other web pages and we’d like to give you the chance to go directly to any that might be of interest to you.

“Outta Site” – Lesson links

Do you have a lesson on your site that you’d like to promote? Link to it here.

The second new page is fairly self-descriptive. We get a lot of folks who’d like to know how to inform the Guitar Noise community of their products and this is one way to do so without disrupting the other forum pages.

Unabashed site or product promotion

Do you have a guitar related site you’d like the readers of the Guitar Noise forums to check out? Post it here. Please do not spam it across multiple forums.

And definitely take heed of the last sentence. Our moderators don’t take too kindly to spammers. If you’ve any question as to which page to use, write to one of them or to myself and we’ll gladly assist you.

Sunday Songwriters Group

Year Three, Week 2

As mentioned last time, in the first weeks of SSG III we’re going to look at inspiration. We’ll try to find it in the strangest places. Places you’d never think of looking.

“Picture This:” This week we’re continuing our theme on inspiration by considering a picture (or photograph) and writing a song that can tell us either the story behind it or what it reveals.

This site may get you started if you haven’t got a picture handy.

Good Writing

Bob

Reviews

PlaneTalk by Kirk Lorange
You may have heard about Kirk’s secret to opening up the fretboard. You may have seen posts asking what it is and the keepers of the secret denying your request for knowledge. Well let me tell you, it is a secret that is beautiful in it’s simplicity.

Threshold: Subsurface
Subsurface is filled with what makes Threshold sound unique. This is hard-edged music with strong melodies and lyrics. This is my fifth review of a Threshold album and I hope I’ve managed to convince you to find out more about them. You have everything to gain.

Thoughts & Feedback

A little over five years ago, on November 12, 1999 to be precise (and not the eleventh, as erroneously reported by myself last week) (getting old is not always pretty!), the visitors signing on to Guitar Noise were greeted with something new – an article called Breaking Out of The Box, written by someone they’d never heard of, namely me. And the intriguing thing about this wasn’t that it was a piece of phenomenal insight or inspiration, but rather that the columnist seemed to both enjoy writing about music and had a light, easy-going style. More interesting perhaps was that he had another column (about the use of capos, if you can believe it!) up online the following week. In fact, with the exception of the Christmas / New Year holiday, he wrote almost an article every week up through the following October. The new guy seemed intent to stick around!

In November of 2000, I wrote a short piece called Thanks (Giving and Getting), which still pretty much sums up the way I feel about Guitar Noise and the friends I have made in my life through this incredible site.

These past two years in particular have been a little frustrating for me. There are a lot of projects in the works but the dictates of my professional and private life have, by necessity, been the priority. But the readers of Guitar Noise have been patient and supportive as always. And again, I cannot give you enough thanks and appreciation for it.

So I’m very much looking forward to starting my sixth year working here and hope that we can bring back a bit of the “glory days” of Guitar Noise, if you will. I think that we have an incredible array of talent and commitment among the volunteer staff and I will do my best to bring out and bring you the best that we’ve to offer.

We’ve another milestone of sorts to celebrate in our next newsletter. In the meanwhile, I wish you all a wonderful week. Stay safe.

And, as always,

Peace

David