How to be a good guitarist

Actually, no tips and tricks about this. The music industry is just like any other industry that is BUSINESS. There are so many musicians who do not know this would cause them to fail in this hard industry. When someone has the intention of becoming a guitarist, they seemed to leave all the lessons taught in school. Most of them really focus on the skills and forget the outside world and become anti-social. Shut himself in his room and track experimenting for hours was OK but not usually balanced with social networking so that when it comes out of the room and showed the skill, they do not know where to go. 

 

In my opinion, that musicians should be able to sell themselves .... yes, "sell yourself", that is what you needed in this industry so that people notice that you are a talented guitarist who can play very fast. Oh, but what happened? When you are outside the room for hours songs experimenting, you find that so many guitarists like you, even faster than you. What will happen then? You will drown among the many guitarists and not hope that you will be recognized and stand out because you only 1 of the many guitarists who play typical. 

 

So what would you do ???

Perhaps building reference is one of the things that can be done. Open up your mind with a variety of music in this world. Try looking from the side of the music rather than skill. Just enjoy the music, not it's image, because now we have a lot of the music's image is more influential than the music. For example, you do not want to hear country music because you're afraid if someone called you "cheesy" (sorry, this is only an example). Here, you are a victim of the pettiness of your own mind. You "seeing" music...but not "hearing" music.

The next thing you can do is probably self-introspection. Try to look in the mirror while playing the guitar, then ask yourself "actually, how's my style?". You could also write 10 good things and 10 bad things when you're playing the guitar. Here will be seen the truth, what kind of guitarist you are. Do you really great at tapping? Are you good at sweeping? Are you constantly in rhythm?Etc...

 

By looking over yourself, you will realize that you are someone with some advantages and you should begin to explore the advantages ,and don't think too much about your weakness. Even if possible, make your weakness as excess. For example, you were very busy playing rhythm but weak in playing the lead. Take advantage of your weakness to play the beat and tempo also groove, forget to fill the lead guitar because you sucks ... yes, you suck playing lead, so make use of the advantages of your rhythm. 

 

Remember, you are the product. A product must have a USP (Unique Selling Point) to be able to get the attention among the many products. USP was obtained from the research. When you're outgoing, you have to do research. You will further notice if you have some advantages that are not owned by anyone else in the world of this music. So, do as much research as possible and will see where you can fit-in and that's where you'll be known for your uniqueness. You will be different from other guitarists and have your own character.

by: Arswendo

 

LR Baggs Venue for Playing Perfect Accoustic

The quality of sound produced by acoustic guitar in a show must be clean and clear in the ears. To get such results, various ways have been performed acoustic guitar players. But, now, seems no longer need machination by various methods. Simply switch the Venue Full Isolation DI Acoustic Guitar Preamp, one of the special effects for products from LR Baggs acoustic guitar, and sound problems were solved. 

Guitarists believed the LR Baggs  has been helping musicians for over 25 years. And this time, the manufacturer of the LR Baggs DI Venue introduce products that are assembled and tested in the United States as the successor of the type of the IN which combine a variety of attractive features such as the incorporation of direct input (DI) with a powerful EQ. 

When viewed , Venue DI has an attractive design with arch shape at the top and bottom that there are two buttons for a foothold. The combination of bronze and dark brown color is very thick so have the impression retro look, like Baggs Acoustic Reference Amplifier. LR Baggs has a product called "construction like a bomb" with a very solid device. The size is relatively large for an effects pedal, measuring about eight inches square, but this is the size needed by the designers to pack all the features in all units. 

You can press two buttons with your foot. Right button to eliminate the signal output and turn on the colorful tuner voice, making it easier for the musicians to tune his guitar strings. While the left button is the boost that can patch the signal gain to 9 dB. This button that makes sounds that are played acoustic guitar sounds more clean. 

When using this device, Venue DI has successfully provided  clean sounds, clear, calm and can be juxtaposed with the sound system as well as to accommodate whatever length of cable. Adjust the input gain properly and the operation of "clip" feet on the main panel is the key to the result of a clean sound. The resulting tone control is very impressive and provide performance boots and dramatic cuts. In addition, sweepable mid-range control is very useful to get a fine tuning being played.

Tuner built this product is fairly light so easy to read, either in a state (stage) is dark or under bright lights. Pedal mute tune lets you tuning silently. That tuner is extremely accurate and effective, it can even help track the baritone guitar when it tuned down to A without any problem. There's very worth it to spend more money to create the appearance of your accoustic sound cleaner and clearer.

Specifications :

- Multifunction preamp / DI

- Five-band EQ, about 12 dB with two sweepable parametric midrange

Controls :

- Chromatic tuner with footswitch mute. 

- Adjustable 0–9 dB boost footswitch. 

- Anti-fewedback notch filter. 

- Single 1/4-inch input with gain control and clip meter. 

- Unbalanced 1/4-inch output with output volume control. 

- Balanced, full-isolation XLR out. 

- Phase and ground lift switches.

· Effects send/return. 71/2 x 71/2 inches square.

· 1/2 inches tall. 2.2 lb.

· Powered by nine-volt battery or optional power adapter.

· Assembled and tested in the USA.      

YAMAHA Pacifica 212 Review

NEW FACE of PASIFICA

You could say, of the many models of electric guitars in the line of Yamaha, Pacifica models pretty much in demand by the guitar lover . Some types have been derived by displaying excellent qualities, among them the series 112XJ, 1511MS, 112J, and 112V. Now, one of the newest series, namely Pasifica 212 has been launched with two options, namely Pacifica 212VFM (flamed maple) and Pacifica 212VQM (Quilted maple).

The second material model guitar which refers to the Stratocaster is made up of Alder wood for the whole body and maple (flamed and Quilted) to the top. As for the 25.5-inch scale fingerboard, rosewood used the foundation as much as 22 fret. Sednagkan for pickup, 212 Pacifica relies Alnico-V with the addition of technology Coil Tap Function to select a variety of pickup. Overall, this guitar is worth having because the quality of Pacifica models that have no need to doubt his abilities. Mike Stern, one of the top jazz guitarists of the world also rely on this Pasifica, despite choosing Telecaster as a reference model.

by: Arswendo