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Podcast 41: Johnny Winter Style Blues Guitar Lick

Published Dec. 7, 2010 at 11:46 a.m.

In Podcast 41 I want to show you a Johnny Winter Style blues guitar lick played in the key of C. Watch this lick being played over a backing track below. The example below is in the key of B not C like the lesson. Sorry! For more information about learning lead blues guitar please [ ... ] ...

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Guitar Noize top 10 albums of 2010

Published Dec. 6, 2010 at 9:16 p.m.

It’s time for a look back at what rocked 2010 for Guitar Noize and it’s been a belter of a year so I had a hard time choosing my favourite 10 but I got there in the end: ... 1. Slash - Slash ... This album totally surprised me, I hoped it would be good but didn’t expect it to be this good! Brilliant collaborations, great guitar playing and songs, this album made me stop questioning the hype surrounding Slash. Check out my review here ... 2. Paul Gilbert - Fuzz Universe ... This one I did

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Monday Motivation: Not Guitar

Published Dec. 6, 2010 at 4:37 p.m.

“[M]ake time for yourself to learn something useful; stop letting yourself be pulled in all directions.” -Marcus Aurelius (trans. Gregory Hays) You you’re a fan of the CG Blog on Facebook you may have already seen this video. Otherwise, prepare to be amazed. This is not a guitar video, but it is a guitar piece: [ ... ] ...

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Demo: Vintage Icon Series V6HMR & V52MR

Published Dec. 5, 2010 at 10:11 p.m.

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The V6HMR & V52MR are two distressed style guitars from Vintage (one of industry legend Trev Wilkinson’s businesses), these guitars have been around for a long time well before the roadworn look became very popular, the goal was to create a good quality vintage style guitar for someone on a tight budget and they certainly succeeded. The distressed finish will cost you a little extra than the standard finish version of the same guitar but these guitars will only cost you $699 Aussie dollars, to

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Premier Guitar’s Gear Ads of the 1980’s

Published Dec. 5, 2010 at 9:42 p.m.

I remember nearly every one of the 1980’s gear ads Premier Guitar has dug up and they are all absolute classics. Take the first ad for instance for the Aria Pro II, glance at that and you could be forgiven for thinking you were looking at the rear end of Satchel from Steel Panther! The ads with Bob Bradshaw in are pretty funny too, that was some hair cut Bob. I distinctly remember the ADA ad that I have chosen above because I always thought “who the hell is ‘Atomic’ Tommy McClendon”

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Win a Free Guitar Course

Published Dec. 5, 2010 at 2:37 p.m.

Get one of my guitar courses or chord melody arrangements of your choosing for FREE! All you have to do is go to my YouTube channel and submit a video of your playing what I teach in the video. Upload it as a video response to one of my lessons (eg. pinch harmonics, pentuplets, jazz [ ... ] ...

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Musician’s Friend interview Eric Johnson about his new album ‘Up Close’

Published Dec. 3, 2010 at 10:09 p.m.

Musician’s Friend have uploaded a few videos to their YouTube channel of an interview with Eric Johnson about his upcoming album ‘ Up Close ’ ... Above is part 2 of the interview where Eric discusses each track and what gear he used which I thought was the most interesting ... In part 3 Eric demonstrates some of the effects used on the tracks and a few more examples of guitars and amps: ... Check out part 1 here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20rc6B11aC4 ... You can hear streaming

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Ola Englund’s 14 Metal Amp shootout

Published Dec. 3, 2010 at 10:03 p.m.

Check this out, Ola has been recording loads of videos featuring tracks from his bands Feared and Scarpoint for a while on YouTube, now Ola has put together 14 of the best Metal amps back to back so you can see for yourself which are the most badass Metal amps! Which are your favourite? ... Follow Guitar Noize on Twitter (@guitarnoize) ... This rss feed is the property of GuitarNoize.com ...

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Guitar Lessons for Kids

Published Dec. 3, 2010 at 4:29 p.m.

Are looking for an effective program whose contents are specially crafted guitar lessons for kids? Very young guitar students have to be to be addressed in a different manner than older players from 14 years old and up, including guitar lessons for adults, and general guitar lessons for beginners. Generally speaking kids have smaller bodies [ ... ] ...

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