“Only they who believeth in their guitar quest shall be granted passage”

  • how many times i met Roland Jazz Chorus JC-120 ?

    how many times i met Roland Jazz Chorus JC-120 ?

    Roland Jazz Chorus JC-120 is my favorite. i met few combos on stages and this combo amp impressed me. in a week, i play on at least minimum 2 stages those use Roland Jazz Chorus JC-120 and i see no reason to explain why. almost all know that Roland JC-120 Jazz Chorus has a great tone enhancements. some metal users might not like it because it is not big enough or any other reasons, but for me Roland Jazz Chorus JC-120 helps me a lot on my playing and sound options.

    Roland Jazz Chorus JC-120
    Roland Jazz Chorus JC-120
    Roland Jazz Chorus JC-120

    here i shared some pics about Roland Jazz Chorus JC-120.
    Roland Jazz Chorus JC-120 has a great way to modify guitar tone. it has overdrive and reverb effect, vibe and chorus switch-knob effects. try them, those effects will changes our guitar tone significantly.


    some might think i never met other one 🙂 but i made some comparisons while playing combos on stage, some might like PEAVEY bandit 112 on my previous post about combo amp, but we should explore stuff and being open-minded about these things right? i love learning and finding new things, especially anything about my love, guitar.

  • making slideshow of major chords for guitar

    Yes, I’m trying to take benefit on all the facilities i have, and i made a slide show for my earlier post; The Guitar Learner: Fun in basic, Major Chords:

    and here it is on youtube:

    it was fun after all. i was enjoying the latest self-blogging technologies well-suited into my music interests. using Picasa 3 and the help of DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) software, i made a slideshow of major chords for guitar, along with tuned-up audio guitar sounds and speech synthesizer. it is great! to make this slideshow, i only used my mouse, and pc keyboard (to type words only!).

    yea yea yea, i know, for some of professionals and a lot of people out there, this is an obsolete information. almost everyone using hi-tech stuff in producing their music these days and they are good at it. my aim here is, that the fact “Learning one thing is a door that leads to another Learning”. when i learn to blog my interest, both blogging and guitar are improving, while other things those support them, is evolving and developing, too. there’s nothing to loose in learning something that is good for you.

    so why don’t we start something sooner? and my favorite life soundtrack is “make yourself”- incubus

    FYI:
    all stuff like VST plugins, DAW, synth are things those supports music nowadays. they are necessary for some reason. see, you can get  speech synthesizer like on my video/slideshow above in an instance by having Image Line FL Studio Fruity Edition V10 on your machines. it’s one of great tool in music production and i recommend you to take a look at it (or, get it) and made a review about it. it’s a fun stuff.

  • Fun in basic, Major Chords

    Actually,  first guitar playing is my friend’s, singing accompanied by guitar rhythm and chords. Earlier, what i saw on TV was Kurt Cobain playing “About a Girl” song on MTV unplugged, left-handed guitar playing with drunk-whatever-style. That was my first love on guitar. It wasn’t anything like long-haired Joe Satriani “always with me, always with you” video-clip. As everyone see, i see a guitar as a companion, a friend.What I’m trying to say is, the chords had met me earlier than scales or modes, those chords inspire every kids to learn and love guitar, from ancient until now and for the next future. what a amazing thing… now i guess it’s time to continue the tradition, sharing things which can keep us stay in rhythmic life. THE CHORDS !this post brings the major chords, as they are easy to listen and to learn. Major chords consist of the root, the third and the fifth notes. what we have on C major chord are C (root note), E(third note) and G (fifth note).. here i share some chords those come in handy to learn for the first time.

    guitar chord
    C (root note), E(third note) and G (fifth note)

    since this is basic, there will be no complicated stuff here. all we have to do is memorizing the notes those build the Major chords : do(1st) – mi(3rd) – sol(5th)

    on D major chord, it will be : D(1st) – F#(3rd) – A(5th)

    guitar chord
    D(1st) – F#(3rd) – A(5th)
    guitar chord
    E(1st) – F#(3rd) – G#(5th)

    next;

    guitar chord
    F(1st) – A(3rd) – Bb(5th)
    guitar chord
    G(1st) – B(3rd) – D(5th)
    guitar chord
    A(1st) – C#(3rd) – E(5th)
    guitar chord
    B(1st) – D#(3rd) – F#(5th)

    hope everyone likes my coloring 🙂

  • (Part 2) May the 4th be with you, The Circle of Fourths

    on Part 1, we already had C, F, Bb, Eb, Ab, Db as the major key. Circle of fourths diagram, the last note will be F# or Gb. here I prefer using Gb, since our topic is circle of fourths which is related with flat-notes. Yes, the Circle Of fourths is about Flat-notes.here is the notes:

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    Gb – Abm – Bbm – Cb/B – Db – Ebm – Fm7b5 – Gb

    at the picture, you see Cb is red, while Cb is B note. so why bother?

    • first: it is to avoid the two same note written on one line. you can see there is B flat(Bb), and if i wrote Cb as B, there will be two same notes (Bb and B).
    • second. it is a useful chord writing in understanding scales and modes. it is in the different section of learning. we keep notes like Cb and B#, E# and Fb stay written as is, in order to understand the note degrees and analyze the intervals.
    • third is, well, that’s all i know for this. i will add this sections as soon as i find out more about this.

     

    Circle of Fourths and Fifths twitter.com/theguitarlearn…
    — The Guitar Learner (@theguitarlearn) May 10, 2013

    i put the diagram in various places so anybody can access them, while i may need more to add in this section, so responses and critics are my most welcome.

    i had promised there are three circles in this topic and the next one will be the GooglePlus circles. I made this blog with a huge vision of learning and sharing, and i try to make decent connections between all the guitar learnerd around the world. so i made this blog :

    the continuation of this post would be The Circle of fifths, but I’m still thinking about it, since it has the same ideas in learning the circle of fourth and i have to present it in different approaching method. but for now, all i can say about the circle of fifths is, following the red guy on the diagram will get you the circle of fifths notes. the one with sharp-notes, counter clock-wise direction, using the fifth notes as the point.

    respond please.it is highly appreciated. thanks