Posts Tagged ‘Video’
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
Ahhh, the double-neck guitar. Is there anything more rock-n-roll than the double-neck guitar? Sometimes one guitar isn’t enough and you can’t be bothered with a roadie handing you another guitar in mid-song, so you strap on the two-headed monster of rock. It doesn’t matter what kind of music you play, if you’re any good at guitar or if you’re a two-handed virtuoso, when you have a double-neck guitar held in a vertical fashion, you rock (see right).
Here are 10 awesome double-neck guitar videos! Got others? Put them in the comments and help create one of the most rockin’est posts evar!
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Tags: double neck guitars, Video
Posted in Guitars, Video | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
Ok this one is a trip…
This guy uses just his voice and a microphone to create a lead guitar sound. I’d say his vocal chords sound like a Stratocaster with humbuckers through a Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier and a TS808 screamer. He trades a few licks back and forth with a real guitar players. We’re not sure what his name but if you do please let us know in the comments. Special hat tip to GuitarKadia for this one. Check it out…
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Tags: mouth guitar, Video
Posted in Bedroom Rockstars, Video | 4 Comments »
Monday, May 11th, 2009
A couple of weeks back Metallica was featured on the super-slow motion TV show Time Warp. Time Warp is on the Discovery Channel and features MIT scientist and teacher Jeff Lieberman — along with digital-imaging expert Matt Kearney — using super slow motion cameras to “bring truly never-before-seen wonders into a form that your body can actually process”.
In the Metallica episode they featured each of the band members doing what they do best but slowed down into super slow motion. Check out some of the clips…
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Tags: Metallica, slow motion, time warp, Video
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
While most people who think of Prince like to think of his singing and dancing, the guy plays a pretty mean electric guitar. But as he gets older (he’s 51), Prince is shifting from his less conventional guitars like this one to something more standard. Prince was on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last week to promote the two CD’s of his music that he’s releasing through Target this week - LOtUSFLOW3R and MPLSoUND (don’t try to even say their names - much less say them five times fast). Instead of playing one of his regular purple concoctions, this time Prince showed up playing a light blue Fender Stratocaster - still a little out there but definitely more conventional. Click on to see the video.
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Tags: Electric, Fender, Prince, Video
Posted in Guitars, Video | 7 Comments »
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
When playing fingerstyle, the goal is to position your hand so that your fingers can get the G-B-E strings with a stroke that is perpendicular to the floor. Your thumb should be elongated as it hits the bass strings. Some people do this naturally and for others (like this author), this really takes some work. My teacher recently recommended a video of one of the great bossa nova fingerstylists - Joao Gilberto - to show me how it’s really done. The song is awfully good too. See Video.
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Tags: fingerstyle, Gilberto, Video
Posted in Instruction, Video | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
Last week we posted on how guitar amps are made and it turned out to be a pretty popular story on Fretbase (thanks Josh!). So we thought we’d bring you another one of these cool “How It’s Made” videos but this time we have a video on how guitar strings are made.
Discovery’s “How It’s Made” made a trip to the D’Addario string factory to film the mini-documentary on string manufacturing. See the video…
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Tags: D'Addario, D'Addario Strings, how it's made, Strings, Video
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