Copyright made Simple

If you haven’t heard of “copyright” before, what planet have you been living on?! It seems to be everywhere nowadays- when you upload a video to YouTube, when you buy and Mp3 (anyone remember Napster?), or when you record your own version of a song. Copyright is everywhere… …but, unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to be [...]

May 4, 2012 at 2:00 pm | Uncategorized | No comments

Merry Christmas 2011!

Is the year almost over already?! I’m just posting this to say “Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!” to you all! This time I’m going to leave you all with the great Joe Satriani’s version of “Silent Night” (WARNING: there is a huge guitar soloy bit in the middle of this!). If you want [...]

December 22, 2011 at 10:00 pm | Uncategorized | 2 comments

Guitar Lessons and Exercises

Image by imuttoo If you follow my blog, you may have noticed that I don’t post an article every day. That’s because I’ve been trying to get back to focus on why I created this website in the first place- why I do what I do, and why it can help you. Guitar Tuition So, [...]

March 30, 2010 at 11:00 pm | Uncategorized | 5 comments

Mozart Piano Sonata No.16

Here is my arrangement of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Sonata Facile” for guitars. I decided not to make this one so heavy and instead I’ve used a clean guitar for the rhythm (with just a bit of flange). The lead guitar is distorted with lots of delay and reverb, but I still didn’t want it too [...]

March 8, 2010 at 11:00 pm | Uncategorized | No comments

Staff Benda Bilili (Look Beyond Appearances)

Now I know I’ve said this many times, but talent doesn’t exist- it doesn’t exist, and it never has existed! The key thing for success as a musician is determination and hard work. I’m determined to prove this to everyone! This is why you might be interested in the story of Staff Benda Bilili, an [...]

November 20, 2009 at 12:00 pm | Uncategorized | No comments

Learning to play Guitar: Books, DVDs, or Lessons?

For the beginner guitarist, it is pretty simple to walk into a guitar shop and buy a cheap electric guitar, say, a Squier “Fender Strat”, but another thing to decide where to go next. I’m talking, of course about learning to play the instrument. Reading Guitar Books; watching instructional DVDs by shred guitarists such as [...]

November 13, 2009 at 1:03 pm | Music News and Opinions, Uncategorized | No comments

School Rock!

Here are some pictures and videos of the band I’ve been running at Newlands Primary School. I’m currently taking a break from running it, but I thought I would share some of the pictures taken of last years year 6 band. The Video is of their own cover version of “Smoke on the Water” by [...]

November 7, 2009 at 12:00 pm | Uncategorized | No comments