AcousticGuitar.com: Four iPhone Tuners Reviewed
Posted by Drew in Drew's News on 03. Sep, 2010 | 0 Comments
Got an iPhone? Acoustic Guitar Magazine has a review of four different iPhone tuners. Pretty incredible stuff when you think about it: You can use YOUR PHONE to tune your guitar! I am personally sold on Agile Partners’ Guitar Toolkit which, in addition to offering a very accurate chromatic tuner (for the uninitiated, the microphone that [...]
Find a Nearby Jam with JamCalendar.com
Posted by Drew in Drew's News on 03. Sep, 2010 | 0 Comments
Looking for a jam on this holiday weekend? Check out JamCalendar, a service that highlights all of the local open mics, pro jams, hosted jams, and general free-for-all music throwdowns that are going on around town. Right now, it’s pretty much focused on my neck of the woods (Southern California), but they’re always looking for [...]
Now Available: Free Blues MP3 Practice Loops
Posted by Drew in Drew's News on 02. Sep, 2010 | 0 Comments
I’ve posted the first of many free blues MP3 loops for you to use for practice. You can find them by clicking the “Loops” link up at the top-left of the page. The inaugural pair consists of a 16, and 8 bar blues: Better known to most as Little Walter’s “My Babe” and “Key to [...]
Jonny Lang Brings His Own Blues
Posted by Drew in Drew's News on 01. Sep, 2010 | 0 Comments
Guitar Player magazine has a nice feature on guitarist/vocalist/phenom Jonny Lang. In it, Michael Ross covers Lang’s influences and focuses on his recent shift away from the typcial “SRV blues revival” style that has become de rigueur in the last decade, and focuses on his migration towards soul, funk, and rock. While Lang’s material is [...]
The Gibson Classic Interview: Jeff Beck
Posted by Drew in Drew's News on 31. Aug, 2010 | 0 Comments
Gibson has posted an enlightening interview with rock/blues/otherworldly guitar genius Jeff Beck. Beck is the guy who followed Eric Clapton — and preceded Jimmy Page — in that hugely influential blues/pop group The Yardbirds. But then, you knew that already. You also know that Beck is a musician nearly without peer; wildly inventive, defiantly individual, [...]
