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I was doing a considerable amount of searching around for a music score editor the other day, and I ran across this little gem. Not only does it allow you to build chords but it allows you to name and hear the chords you’ve built. Granted, the sound you hear, is a midi sound but hey, what do you want for free? It also allows for multiple instruments, notes, accidentals, and just about everything else I can imagine I would need. Granted, I’m not a power user of this kind of stuff in that I’m not a songwriter. I was looking for something to help me build chords and learn about how their constructed and understand what scales would be best to play over them. This is just the trick for that.
Since I’ve never really studied music other than the most basic stuff I found it fascinating to be able to builed the chords like above and then be able to instantly hear the differences between them with the built in Midi play. This was pretty cool since I was fully expecting to have to pull out my guitar to mess around with what I had built. This’ll save me some time and hopefully help me to learn more.
So check it out and grab it HERE
I was searching the web for some scale information and I stumbled upon this cool web site – Scalerator. It’s a site that allows you to name the key and the scale you want to generate. The cool thing is that not only does it give you the notes, but it give you graphic of the guitar neck and locates the notes along with the root note for you. Here’s an example of a generated scale. It’s the E Dorian.
You can slide the little window (green box) to show what ever position you’d like to notes generated for. Oh, and for you tab people, it also generates the tab for the scale! How cool is that?
So check this little tool out when you get a chance. I’m sure I’ll be back over and over again.
Ok, I made the plunge. I’ve been hankerin’ to get me a new axe for the last few months. I’ve been going into stores and playing every guitar I saw. I’ve been watching for deals and checking Craig’s List daily to see who might be willing to part with that special guitar. Well, today, I said, “enough is enough” and bought myself a Fender Highway One Telecaster. Awesome tone and an awsome look that’ll only improve as I use it. It has a thin finish that’s designed to wear easily so it should get that broken in look real soon. Here’s the specs…
When I get a few more miles on it I’ll come back to write a more thorough review. At this point I’m still breaking her in.
Check out this loop pedal from Boss. I picked up one of these the other day. Haven’t really had a lot of time yet to play with it yet but my time will come soon and I’ll put up a couple of videos when I get used to it. Until then, check it out…
Last Christmas I was in Guitar Center helping a friend pick out an acoustic guitar for his son and I picked up a Fender Thinline while he was checking out. I was immediately impressed with the playablility of this great looking guitar. The action was amazing as well as it’s sound. When I looked at the price tag, I immediatly scolded myself for even picking it up because at $1100 it was way out of my league. I left the store but decided to keep an eye on it in case it went on sale. Well, it didn’t go on sale at Guitar Center, but the price came down at all of the outlets to $800. I thought Cool! This thing is really a possibility now! Just need to save up a few bucks and this baby is all mine.
Fast forward to last weekend, and I’m in Best Buy picking of a couple of foot pedals, and I see the Thinline hanging on the wall listed at $599. I asked the sales associate if it’s the same one as at Guitar Center for $800, he said ”yep, we need to move it out to make room for some new product” . Well, with that information, I then proceeded to set and play this guitar in the Best Buy music room for the next 30 minutes using the Fender Frontman 212 amp which is the same model I use at home. I have to tell you, I was sooooo close to walking out with this thing. It’s a great looking guitar with a semi hollow alder body that played amazing. Just like the one I checked out at Guitar Center. Here’s why I didn’t buy it – I picked up the Fender Highway One that was sitting next to it. It was priced at $699. I played this thing and found that while I liked the Fender Thinline, I LOVED the Highway one. The neck seemed faster, the look was classic 50′s, and the single coil pickups seemed hotter.
So, now I have a new obsession, saving for the Highway One while watching for sales.
