Is “Buzz” Feiten a guitar player too?

August 31st, 2008 ·

Howard “Buzz” Feiten ( “feet’n”) is a American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and session musician.[/caption] He is best known as a lead and rhythm electric guitarist, and has been in hot demand for sessions, concert tours, albums and CDs since the late 1960s. Industry veterans and pop musicologists alike consider him to have some [...]

Play The Guitar…Learn To…

August 29th, 2008 ·

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. THOMAS EDISON It makes you wonder how many times we have given up on a project or hobby just before a break through. A lot of people, particularly novice guitar for beginners players give it up [...]

The Perfect Jam Session

August 27th, 2008 ·

About 3 months ago our jam session group had to disband. What a drag. So a good time we had and the interaction with other players was a great learning tool and fun, fun, fun. Last night we started to jam again. We met indirectly through a quirk of fate. I’m not embarrassed to say [...]

A Bluesman’s Lingering Notes; Six Years After His Death, Stevie Ray Vaughan Is Hotter Than Ever

August 25th, 2008 ·

When I came across this story in the archives section of The Washington Post the other day, I knew it need to be shared with all of the Stevie Ray Vaughan Addicts. Yes, I noticed it when I found the print story on “The Last Guitar “ posted last week. It details Stevie Ray and [...]

“The Last Guitar”

August 22nd, 2008 ·

My Mother sent this story to me.  I had an email chat with the author in order to obtain permission to re-print this article. He told me the article belonged to the Washington Post Magazine, and so I acquired permission there.  The article was called Guitar Hero, but the author told me he had titled [...]

Robert Plant turned 60 Yesterday…

August 21st, 2008 ·

Apparently my famous birthday crystal ball was out of order yesterday. I missed Robert plant’s birthday on Sept. 20th. [/caption] Robert Anthony Plant born on August 20, 1948, West Bromwich, England. He is a perhaps one of the most noticeable voices in rock and roll, or for that [...]

Hurricane Fay dampened our mood and blew us away.

August 21st, 2008 ·

[/caption] Update on our hurricane Fay survival. We survived and the damage was not to much. We had record rains and lots of flooding in the area. Our house is on a really high acre lot with lots of woods. The woods shield us [...]

Guitar for Beginners….

August 20th, 2008 ·

To define what “guitar lessons for beginners” means presents a challenge. The term guitar for beginners can be assumed to mean, a way of learning to play the guitar, which is not at all age specific or talent related. This article tries to cover young people and mature people who have little or no [...]

Possible Hurricane Tonight?

August 18th, 2008 ·

[/caption] We live in Florida and simply put, after going through the hurricanes Francais and Jean in 2004, we will never take a hurricane lightly again. Once you have been through a hurricane that leaves your town wrecked, I mean like what you see in the newspapers. Roofs ripped off [...]

Schools Of Air Guitar-ology

August 15th, 2008 ·

Air Guitar has been played by non guitar players for as long as electric guitars have been considered the ultimate instrument of expression for rock music through acting, as in, an actor, and not really being a guitar player. Like the guitar players we love and consider our idols. But what was previously a hobby [...]

Seven Realistic Steps to Being the Best Guitar Player you can be…

August 13th, 2008 ·

[/caption] Here are the seven steps to becoming a highly effective guitar player: 1. Enjoy the guitar you play. Picking an instrument that fits you physically and has a sound you like is an important aspect of becoming a highly effective guitar player. Lets be realistic about this. Regardless of what [...]

Issac Hayes dies at 65 years..

August 11th, 2008 ·

According to the Memphis Sheriff’s Office, Isaac Hayes, the pioneer singer and musician whose “Theme From Shaft” which won a Grammy and Academy awards, died about an hour after he was discovered unresponsive near his home treadmill, after being taken to Baptist East Hospital. In the early ’70’s. Hayes was responsible for assembling the groundwork for [...]

Bluesman Bo Diddley gets posthumous degree..

August 11th, 2008 ·

More than two months after his death, rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Bo Diddley has been awarded a college degree from the University of Florida. Diddley’s daughter, Evelyn Kelly accepted the honor on his behalf at Saturday’s commencement in Gainesville. Diddley, who was a longtime Alachua County resident, was nominated last fall for the honor, but a [...]

A Logical Approach To Rhythm

August 8th, 2008 ·

How do you get rhythm and what is rhythm? You will know you have rhythm when you get it. It’s one of those guitar things we practice hard to get. It is one of the essential “spices’. It’s takes a lot of work to be extremely rhythmical. That being said, rhythm came to me the first [...]

Experience Hendrix’s Chordal Magic-Lesson

August 7th, 2008 ·

Almost inevitably, if I were to ask most guitar players what a C chord looked and sounded like, the answer would be something in tune (pun) with example #1. A standard type of C chord. One we mentioned in the first chart , not the 7ths chart (click the 1st chart to enlarge and copy) [...]