News items related to the guitar and those that play them.
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Source: Harmony Central
- Core Twelve Productions partners with today's biggest artists for its FRET12 line of instructional products. These "total picture presentations" of the artist's stories, compositions and routines, create the most informative and relevant learning experiences possible.
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Source: Harmony Central
- Finland-based Flaxwood is taking its models to a higher level by migrating all of its guitars to
Elixir® Strings. After six years of using an alternative brand of strings, the company will outfit its line of revolutionary molded wood electric guitars with light gauge Elixir® Strings with NANOWEB® coating as of January 2009.
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Source: Harmony Central
- Messin' Wid Da Bull, the second book and play-along CD combo pack in Hudson Music's Turn It Up & Lay It Down series, provides drummers with a new twist on the age old question "What do you get when you mess with the bull?" by offering the musical answer: "You get the horns!" The fun and challenging new play-along package features 13 original compositions and professionally recorded tracks—minus drums—that pay homage to the great horn bands of the '70s, like Tower of Power, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Chicago, Earth, Wind & Fire, Average White Band and others.
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Source: Harmony Central
- Guitar players—your wish is finally answered: Way Huge is back! Effects guru Jeorge Tripps—creator of the coveted Aqua-Puss Analog Delay, Green Rhino Overdrive II, and Swollen Pickle Jumbo Fuzz-is working with premier accessory manufacturer Dunlop, maker of the legendary Crybaby and MXR pedals, to bring you a new series of Way Huge pedals.
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Source: Harmony Central
- Alfred Publishing and IMV LLC released today a groundbreaking new series of interactive music videos called "IMV: Behind the Player." The innovative DVD series—which features personal music lessons from members of some of the world's most influential bands like KoRn, Slipknot, Ozzy Osbourne, Alice in Chains, Atreyu, Marilyn Manson and Velvet Revolver—provides musicians with an exciting new method for learning to play their favorite songs: right from the artists that recorded them.
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Source: Harmony Central
- J.C. Harper Luthier is pleased to announce the addition of a Buck Dharma Signature electric guitar kit for those wishing to save a few "bucks" and assemble one for themselves.
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Source: Harmony Central
- Woodello Industries, LLC has announced the Mastery Bridge, a completely new bridge design specifically made to replace the problematic OEM Fender® Jazzmaster®, Jaguar®, Mustang®, Bass VI®, Jag-Stang® and Bigsby®-equipped Telecaster® bridges.
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Source: Sonic State
- Dammit Distortion aims to recreate the guitar sound on Metallica's Black album
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Source: Harmony Central
- Singer and guitarist Scott "SVH" Von Heldt (who has worked with members of White Zombie, Cirque du Soliel, Bad Company and many others), and LuLu Publishing recently announced the release of Scott's highly anticipated book Mind Over Metal - A Musician's Guide To Mental Mastery. Mind Over Metal is a philosophical and spiritual approach to musical mastery for the aspiring musician. As the first book in The Mystic Art of Self-Discovery series, Mind Over Metal offers deep insights for anyone who wants to unleash their primal essence and achieve mastery in the complex art of music. Derived from the metaphysical beliefs and traditions of Eastern Philosophies, Spiritualism, Shamanism, and the Healing Arts, Mind Over Metal has been crafted in a fashion that will awaken the mind of the reader to a deeper understanding of sound and vibrations and how they can be harnessed to transform musical expression. Whether you are a novice, a pro or even just someone who is passionate about music, Mind Over Metal offers you timeless wisdom that is sure to open your mind and expand your creative vision! Mind Over Metal is available from the publisher at the link below and will by available from Amazon, Barnes & Nobles and many other fine book retailers by Thanksgiving.
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Source: Harmony Central
- Reverend now offers the Jetstream HB guitar with flame maple top. Part of their Set-Neck Series, the Jetstream HB features two Reverend humbucker pickups, Reverend Pin-Lock tuners, Bass Contour control, block inlays and neck binding.
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Source: Harmony Central
- Back in the 70's when I played Les Pauls, the first thing I would do when I got one home would be to remove that ugly pickguard so I could look like Peter Frampton! Why do those stock pickguards have to be so ugly? Well, they don't!
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Source: Harmony Central
- The Highland Guitar Company announces the release of the Titan Guitar, the new flagship model in Highland's Electric Jazz Guitar series. The Titan is crafted in a dazzling high gloss vintage fireburst finish over a quilted maple top, back and sides. Distinctive features include a custom wooden pickguard, rosewood volume and tone control knobs, and a rosewood floating tailpiece cover. Wooden pick up covers, multi body flame maple and abalone binding, deco style gold tuners, and a rosewood fingerboard provide complement to theTitan's striking appearance. A gold Bixby tailpiece is optional.
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Source: Harmony Central
- Zero Crossing, Makers Of The N-Tune Onboard Chromatic Tuner, Announce OEM Partnership With Dot On Shaft Guitars New Dot On Shaft Carparelli S3 Models Now Feature N-Tune Chromatic Tuners Onboard
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Source: Harmony Central
- Rock House announced the release of two instructional DVDs featuring Rusty Cooley, one of the most popular and technically proficient guitar players of this generation. The new products titled Fretboard Autopsy Level 1 & level 2 has Rusty teaching his unique approach to fretboard visualization through shapes, patterns and years of model knowledge. In Level 1 Rusty shows students how the modes are covered across the neck, 5 and 6 string root modal patterns, extended and split patterns, single and double string techniques and more, In Level 2 Rusty unlocks the road map that gives guitar players the freedom to improvise over the entire fretboard without being locked into positions. Learn 4, 5 & 6 string root modes, extended patterns spanning the neck, 3 octave modes, reverse linear patterns and modal sequences. Rusty shows you how to create modal chord progressions for each of the 7 modes and more.
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Source: Harmony Central
- Alfred announces the release of guitar virtuoso Paul Gilbert's Silence Followed by a Deafening Roar, a new instructional guitar DVD featuring one of the world's most accomplished masters of the instrument.
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Source: Harmony Central
- Alfred proudly announces the release of guitar virtuoso Paul Gilbert's Silence Followed by a Deafening Roar, a new instructional guitar DVD featuring one of the world's most accomplished masters of the instrument.
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Source: Harmony Central
- Soloway Guitars is proud to present "The Jazz Wing", our first guitar optimized specifically for playing jazz. A light weight, chambered body, figured California Redwood top, rounded Venetian cutaway and rich piano-like tones make the Jazz Wing an ideal alternative to the hassles of a large archtop. The Jazz Wing is feedback free, remarkably comfortable, and it produces an absolutely convincing jazz tone.
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Source: Sonic State
- Twenty-three Korg Pitchblack guitar/bass tuners, each autographed by a different artist, to be auctioned off for charity
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Source: Harmony Central
- The Eastwood Gemini is the new model in our line of "Radical Vintage Remakes". This wild looking guitar is a tribute to the short-lived and very collectible 1966 Wurlitzer Gemini. As with all Eastwood replica models, the Gemini has that retro vibe and features high quality modern electronics for incredible playability and great sound.
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Source: Harmony Central
- The new Stetsbar Pro II, is a unique professional vibrato with a new locking mechanism that can maintain tuning if a string is broken, while still allowing normal up and down action within the vibrato.
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