Agile Partners Guitar Toolkit for iPhone

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 tunerĀ (for the uninitiated, the microphone that [...]

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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 [...]

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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; image gleaned from GuitarPlayer.com

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 [...]

Jeff Beck; photo gleaned from Gibson.com

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, [...]

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