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- NEW ALBUM: Joe Bonamassa “Driving Towards The Daylight”
- Slow Jam The News with Barack Obama & The Roots: Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
- Guitarist Magazine Launches Deluxe Edition iPad App
- Bert Weedon, Play In A Day Author, Dies Aged 91 RIP – 1920-2012
- Tom Petty’s Guitars Stolen From Tour Rehearsal
- Axl Rose Publicly Declines His Induction Into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame In Open Letter To All
- RIP Jim Marshall OBE ~ 1923-2012
- MonkeyFest 2012 Cancelled
- Rockschool Launches Version 4 Guitar Syllabus on May 1st!
- Introducing: Phoenix Pro – The Guitar Plugin That Turns Hacks into Shredders
- SONISPHERE CANCELLED!
- 2012 G3 European Tour feat. Steve Vai, Joe Satriani & Steve Morse
- Slash performs the Allman Brothers classic ‘Jessica’ on BBC’s Top Gear show
- John Mayer forced to take “indefinite hiatus” and cancel US tour
- Eric Johnson announces first ever UK tour!
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- Just been working from the @Rockschool grade 5 book with @iisBigD for his exam later this year. Alka Sezter, All Funked Up and Bust Up. 8 hours ago
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- @NOWBath - I'll be teaching guitar to little rockers at @KESBath Pre-Prep today. Rock N' Roll! \m/. .\m/ 16 hours ago
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NEW Rockschool Exam Syllabus 2012-2018 ~ Coming Soon!
Coming soon for 2012 – the NEW Rockschool Guitar, Bass and Drum syllabus. All tracks were recorded at The Farm Studios in Surrey, home of Genesis and resident producer Nick Davis (Genesis, XTC, Phil Collins, Deep Purple, Bjork), over the course … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012-2018, Artful Dodger, Bass, Bjork, BMFV, Charlie Griffiths, Corrine Bailey Rae, Deep Purple, Drums, Fightstar, Genesis, Grade Syllabus, Guitar, Guitar Techniques, Guitarist, Jason Bowld, Killing Joke, Nick Davis, Noam Lederman, Paul Weller, Phil Collins, Pitchshirter, Rockschool, Stuart Ryan, Surrey, The Farm Studios, Total Guitar, XTC
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JamTrackCentral release new Denny Ilett ‘Jazzin’ The Blues’ jam package
JamTrackCental have this week released their latest jam track package by the fabulous Denny Ilett called ‘Jazzin’ The Blues’. Check it out here. Denny’s debut jam package ‘Jazzin’ The Blues’ is now available to download at Jam Track Central and includes … Continue reading
Posted in Music, News, Video, Website
Tagged Alex Hutchings, Blues, bluesjamtracks, bone, central, Denny Ilett, Guitar, Guthrie Govan, jam, jamming, JamTrackCentral, Jan Cyrka, Jazz, Jazzin The Blues, Jess Lewis, jonas tamas, Rock, swing, track, walker
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CofBC tutor play through #2
As part of the students learning at City of Bath College the instrumental tutors perform to the class presenting them with a close look at the structures, techniques and musical approaches that different genres of music demand. This term we are … Continue reading
Posted in City of Bath College, Lesson, Music, Video
Tagged Bath Guitar School, City of Bath College, Clive Stocker, Duncan Kingston, Free Guitar Lessons, Guitar, Guitar Lesson, Guitar Tuition, Lee Risdale, Motown, Performance, Richard Perkins, Stevie Wonder, Superstition, Tom Gardiner
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RIP Gary Moore ~ 1952-2011
This is one blog post that I really didn’t expect to be writing any time soon and it pains me to write about a guitarist who has influenced me and so many others so greatly. Late yesterday afternoon the guitar … Continue reading
Posted in News, RIP, Video, Website
Tagged Albert King, Bad For You Baby, BB King, BBM, Blood Sweat & Tears, Blues, Collosseum II, David Gilmour, Gary Moore, George Harrison, Ginger Baker, Guitar, I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know, Jack Bruce, Lemmy, Mark King, Mark Knopfler, Parisienne Walkways, Phil Lynott, Rest in Peace, RIP, Rock, Rowland Rivron, Skid Row, The Easy Guitar Book Sketch, Thin Lizzy
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The E A D G C F Tuning For Guitar | An Introductory Guide
The guys over at Jam Track Central recently interviewed Alex Hutchings, a long time collaborator with JTC and a great jazz/rock/fusion guitarist from the UK, who is local to the South West and I have seen him play in Bath … Continue reading
Nile Rodgers – Fighting Cancer
Nile Rodgers, a personal guitar hero of mine and legendary songwriter, was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer in late October 2010. Nile kept his condition a secret from his adoring fans until earlier this week (w/c 17th January … Continue reading
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Tagged Blog, Cancer, Cancer Research, Chic, David Bowie, Eric Benet, Guitar, Lets Dance, Macmillan, Nile Rodgers, Sister Sledge, Slash, Walking On Planet C, We Are Family
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CofBC Pop 1 graded play-through #1
My Pop 1 guitar students at the City of Bath College were set a task to learn a song to performance standard for a play-through to a classroom of their peers on their return to college this term. The class … Continue reading
Design your dream pedalboard with www.pedalboardplanner.com
I found this great free website where you can build your dream pedalboard: http://pedalboardplanner.com. Here you can design and build your dream pedalboard via your web browser and download a cool image of the pedalboard to share with your friends. Firstly: … Continue reading
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Tagged Boutique Pedals, Design, Dream, Effects Pedals, Fun, FX Pedals, Guitar, Guitar Pedals, Pedalboard, Pedalboard Planner, Pedals
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CAGED System: Arpeggios
This post is for my students at the City of Bath College. This is the third installment of the CAGED system and like the CAGED chord and scale shapes in my previous blog posts this CAGED arpeggio system creates five … Continue reading
