Building a Jazz Chord Solo: A Guitarist’s Guide to the Art of Chord Melody Playing

January 21, 2011 in Local Music by stagemaster

  • 55 pagesSize: 9″ x 12″Editor: Fred SokolowISBN: 0634088211

Product Description
Whether you’re a beginner or an intermediate guitarist, this book/CD pack will help you to understand and learn the art of jazz chord soloing in four stages. Four jazz standards are presented, each with four arrangements at varying levels of difficulty: a beginner’s arrangement, using mostly first-position chords * an intermediate arrangement, using moveable chords and featuring a more developed chord vocabulary * an advanced arrangement, including ample chord subst… More >>

Building a Jazz Chord Solo: A Guitarist’s Guide to the Art of Chord Melody Playing

Mel Bay Fingerboard Theory for Guitar A Music Theory Text for Guitarists

May 23, 2010 in Local Music by stagemaster

Product Description
This book contains concepts of music theory presented in such a way as to be easily understood by guitarists. All of the concepts are presented sequentially in an easy-to-follow formant using the guitar fingerboard as the visual tool. Contents include: scales, key signatures, intervals, chord construction and voicing, harmonizing melodies, chord embellishment and substitution, modes, cadences, augmented sixth chords, quartal harmony, and more. Using this book, guita… More >>

Mel Bay Fingerboard Theory for Guitar A Music Theory Text for Guitarists

Music Theory for Guitarists: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask

March 9, 2010 in Local Music by stagemaster

  • ISBN13: 9780634066511
  • Condition: NEW
  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Product Description
Guitarists of all levels will find a wealth of practical music knowledge in this special book and CD package. Veteran guitarist and author Tom Kolb dispels the mysteries of music theory using plain and simple terms and diagrams. The accompanying CD provides 94 tracks of music examples, scales, modes, chords, ear training, and much more!… More >>

Music Theory for Guitarists: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask

Left Hand Guitarists and Left Handed Guitars

March 6, 2010 in Local Music by stagemaster

Left Hand guitar players the world over have always had a problem with availability of left handed guitars.

Many left handed people newly learning to play guitar end up learning to play right handed out of frustration. Many experienced left handed guitarists have simply become apathetic and given up looking for that which is abundant for right handed players. Not only is there a limited range of guitars, but the resources for learning are also pretty limited. This situation is the same in every country in the world.

It is not hard to understand. Of the world’s population, left handed people are a minority compared to right handed people. Within this minority there is a further minority of left handed people who play guitar left handed. Despite the small percentage of left handed guitarists, there have been a number of iconic left handed players who have made a huge impact on the music scene. These include Jimi Hendrix, Paul McCartney, Tony Iommi, and Kurt Cobain.

Many of the big guitar manufacturers do not offer left hand versions of some of their popular guitars. to be fair, US guitar manufacturers, have been facing harder and harder times, year after year. We all know that ALL industry (that is trying to do the right thing and being honest) is suffering and this is proportional to the decline of education (kids can’t learn, can’t hold jobs), the rise of drugs (thank you psychiatrists for getting rich by doping a whole generation into a state of useless-ness while brainwashing parents into believing frying kids brains with drugs is good) and increase of social hardship due to the world economic crash that’s going on (thanks Oil companies, banks, and government suppression) So it is tough for all.

Some guitar manufacturers offer left handed versions of their guitars through their Custom Shop. And although this is an attempt at service, the costs and waiting times can be quite painful.

Well, not any more! GASKELL GUITARS is a small Australian guitar manufacturer that makes only left hand guitars. Gaskell guitars are high quality, yet affordable instruments, that can be gigged with as they are or further upgraded or modified and still come in well under the cost of a custom shop order for the same kind of instrument!

Being situated at the “bottom of the world” and to some degree away from the noise of the collapse happening in other continents, we are able to operate intelligently and with focus on producing well-made, high quality left handed guitars that are not available as left hand models by original manufacturers.

Go to : http://www.gaskellguitars.com

You will find left handed guitars that you have not seen before in left hand and probably never thought you would! Some dreams do become reality.

Gaskell Guitars (Australia)