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For Sale - the Stringery
Published on 06/26/2010 by Elwood | 101 views.Hello all,
I am about to move out to the East coast. I've built this site up to levels where it can pay for itself and maybe buy you a burrito every few months. In other words, I've never really been in this for the money.
Regardless, I'm in need of money now - for the move and am hoping a guitarist with some computer skills would be willing to make an offer. I want someone who'll be in this for the fun of it and be willing to expand the site in new and awesome ways.
I'm not expecting this to sell for much; given that it doesn't make much. (about $1/day). If I don't get any offers I'll just continue to maintain the site as I always have and who knows maybe it'll get even better in the future.
Let me know if your interested. Please use the contact form to get in touch. Thanks
Elwood
Behind the Nut Playing
Published on 05/30/2010 by Dewayne | 447 views.
This is where you'll want to place your finger.
While watching the "Where the Light Is" John Mayer concert, I noticed something interesting that he was doing with his guitar. Mixed in among his usual playing was, he was playing above the nut on the guitar. This is actually a fairly easy trick and I’m rating this as ‘beginner’ level.
So, let’s do this. Of course, you can’t do this trick if you have a locking nut like on a Jackson, but if you have a Strat or another open-nut electric guitar - then you can do this, and it makes the entire string vibrate (while played open).
Continue reading Behind the Nut Playingr/Guitar Survey Results
Published on 05/08/2010 by Elwood | 691 views.A week ago I gave out a survey at r/Guitar. I asked the following questions:
Continue reading r/Guitar Survey ResultsRelative Tuning Techniques
Published on 05/01/2010 by Elwood | 68 views.Did you know you can still tune your guitar if you don't have a tuner? You can use a method called relative tuning, which will make your strings sound harmonious together, although you should only do this if your playing by yourself. There are two popular ways of tuning relatively.
Continue reading Relative Tuning TechniquesChordmate, a chord lookup tool
Published on 04/24/2010 by Elwood | 91 views.
Chordmate is a simple program available for Mac or Windows for looking up and playing chords. It also allows you to assemble chord progressions and play them.
Capo, a program that helps you learn songs
Published on 04/17/2010 by Elwood | 94 views.
Capo for mac is a simple program that makes it easier to tab or learn songs by ear. You simply drag a song into the program and it will offer a multitude of options that make tabbing a song out or playing along real easy.
For example, the program allows you to change the speed of a song. So you can slow it down, making it easier to hear every note. Additionally, there is a looping option that enables the player repeat a section of the song. This can be useful for tabbing a song out or building speed on a particular section.
Selling my guitar
Published on 04/11/2010 by Elwood | 35 views.
G&L S-500
Just a note that I am selling my electric guitar to anyone who is interested. It's a G&L S500 from around 2005. I never played it much, and I need to shed a lot of my belongings for a move out to Boston. Its pretty much brand new. Comes with gig bag and i'll throw in a pair of strings.
It's for sale on Amazon here.
Take a look and if interested, contact me here. I'm willing to let it go for cheaper than what you see on amazon (not including shipping charges) if your seeing it here first. $475 with shipping.
Tablature Search Engine
Published on by Elwood | 49 views.I'm not sure if there is a market for a tablature search engine, but I've been experimenting with googles custom search engine service and thought I'd put a simple search engine geared towards finding tablatures a try. The custom search engine lets you select the sites that will be indexed.
Doing this has allowed me to add my favorite tablature sites, while ignoring the lyric sites that you tend to get when searching for tabs and some of the crappier spammier sites. Hopefully this will make looking for tabs easier - and only provide users with the higher quality tabs.
Anyways, here is is. Give it a try and tell me what you think.
Guitar Tablature Search Engine
Poker Face
Published on 01/15/2010 by Elwood | 159 views.TC-01 Hammer Ons and Pull Offs (Legato Playing)
Published on 01/01/2010 by Elwood | 1,900 views.An Absolute Beginners Guitar Course
Published on 12/31/2009 by Elwood | 221 views.For a long while I have wanted to integrate a solid track of lessons for beginners to be able to use to learn guitar. Today I began importing in the youtube videos by Justin Sandercoe into an 'absolute beginners' course.
I have added supplementary material to some of the videos, which appears below and allows the user to learn a little extra or practice without having to rewind the youtube video. Oftentimes youtube seems to freeze up when you jump around a lot.
In the future I intend to create courses on more advanced topics - mixing videos from a variety of sources and including some entirely written articles.
If you have any sets of guitar lessons you would like me to add to the site or know of any cool ideas for a series or course please get in touch with me using the contact form.
Absolute Beginner's Course »Fretboard Builder
Published on 12/29/2009 by Elwood | 0 views.
The fretboard Builder lets you view the notes up and down the fretboard by choosing the notes for each string or selecting pre-defined tunings.
- Custom-Tuning Option, which allows you to choose the number of strings (4, 5, 6, or 7) and which notes.
- Choose the number of frets.
- Open, Dropped, and Standard Tunings.