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Welcome to Volume 3, Issue #121 of Guitar Noise News!
In This Issue:

Greetings, News and Announcements
Guitar Noise Featured Artist
Topic of the Month
New Articles, Lessons, Reviews and Stuff
Exploring Guitar with Darrin Koltow
Event Horizon
This Date in Guitar Noise History
Random Thoughts

Greetings, News and Announcements
Hello and welcome to the September 1, 2010 edition of Guitar Noise News, the twice-a-month newsletter from [...]

Since our featured artist of the month is John Fogerty I thought it would be fun to write about the best CCR songs for guitar. This isn’t a scientific poll made up by experts. It’s simply a bunch of songs that sound cool, are relatively easy to play, and are likely to sound recognizable when [...]

There are all sorts of reasons to like the blues and all kinds of lessons that guitarists especially can learn from them. Playing the blues is a great way to develop a solid sense of timing and you can also use blues music as an excellent starting place for soloing and phrasing.
What’s sometimes overlooked is [...]

In January of 1970 The Beatles recorded their last song together. Around the same time radio stations were getting very serious about their new favorite band, a group of guys from the San Francisco area called Creedence Clearwater Revival who had just released their third album, “Willie and the Poor Boys” in November 1969 . [...]

At the risk of sounding circular and unhelpful, swing eighths are eighth notes played in a swing rhythm style. What is “swing” and how do swing eighths differ from regular eighth notes (or “straight eighths” as they are called when one is differentiating the two types of rhythms)? Glad you asked!
Eighth notes, as you hopefully [...]

Greetings,
Welcome to Volume 3, Issue #120 of Guitar Noise News!
In This Issue:

Greetings, News and Announcements
Guitar Noise Featured Artist
Topic of the Month
New Articles, Lessons and Reviews
Exploring Guitar with Darrin Koltow
Event Horizon
Random Thoughts

Greetings, News and Announcements
Hello and welcome to the August 15, 2010 issue of Guitar Noise News, the twice-a-month newsletter from Guitar Noise (www.guitarnoise.com).
I’m Charles T. Cat [...]

Beginning guitars have a lot to deal with. You’ve got chords to learn, strings to strum, frets on which to place some of your fingers at certain times and open strings that you may or may not play depending on what chord you want. Many times a beginning guitarist – whose head is first looking [...]

Using Modes to Specifically Outline Single Chords
Any of the modes can be played over their corresponding chord in the diatonic progression for the key for the song you’re playing, or it’s common extensions. And the modes are often used this way to outline an individual chord when soloing. For example:
Mode — Basic Triad  -  7th  [...]

“…when you perform, the music and the audience are what count. Whether you’re cruising effortlessly or working through every phrase isn’t relevant to the music’s impact of the audience’s experience. An analogous example would be the athlete who scores a winning goal. The team is victorious and no one cares whether the scorer was in [...]

Book Review by David Hodge
“…when you perform, the music and the audience are what count. Whether you’re cruising effortlessly or working through every phrase isn’t relevant to the music’s impact of the audience’s experience. An analogous example would be the athlete who scores a winning goal. The team is victorious and no one cares whether [...]