Archive for: August 2007

Here is a short excerpt from an essay on learning guitar from books from Guitar Books
“If you want to learn about the history of the guitar, a book will give it to you. Books can show you where to put your fingers in order to execute a clawhammer picking pattern or play a pentatonic scale. But a book won’t encourage you to practice. I promise.
Guitar books contain information on learning the guitar. This information will never fall out of the book or be wiped out by a power surge. As long as you have your guitar book you will be able to refresh your knowledge of musical theory, find technical exercises, or learn the chords and lyrics to a song.”
The rest of the article is here at Guitar Books

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The lovely and talented Lana Garcia has a new Hub Page called Free Guitar Music. Here’s a choice selection:
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Free Guitar Music: A substantial collection of downloadable guitar music for beginners and professionals. (PDF files, GIFs, tablature and MIDI files). http://hochweber.ch/guitar.htm

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As a guitar player, The Edge is recognised as having a trademark sound typified by understatement, a chiming, shimmering sound that’s achieved with extensive use of digital delay effects, reverb, and a focus on texture and melody. 1987’s The Joshua Tree is probably the best example of the ’U2 sound’, with songs like “With or Without You” and “Where the Streets Have No Name” being among the band’s most critically acclaimed and best loved works. The album was recorded at the height of the 1980s “shred-metal” era, but The Edge’s guitar playing on it couldn’t be further from the emphasis of the time on technique and speed (for example, Edge has suggested that “With or Without You” could easily have gone off into a huge guitar solo, a la “November Rain”, but instead resolves after a brief drum interlude to a relaxed and “chilled out” strummed guitar part, which he cites as his favorite from the album). The album showcases The Edge’s approach to the guitar: rather than trying to push his guitar to the front of the mix and make his contributions obvious, The Edge focuses on the song and the mood, often contributing just a few simple lead lines given depth and richness by an ever-present digital delay. The intro riff to “Where the Streets Have No Name” is simply a repeated six-note arpeggio, broadened by a modulated delay effect. The Edge has said that he views musical notes as “expensive”, in that he prefers to play as few notes as possible.

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