I Have It Somewhere
This has to be the most common comment I hear from students whether during a one-on-one lesson,...
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Category: Richard Gilewitz
“Sounds Like” I May Have a Problem…
No, not that kind of a problem – an actual sound problem. As in sound system. October 2015 was...
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Four- Scream Halloween
In honor of the season, I dug up an old article I wrote for Mel Bay Publications’ Guitar...
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Fingerstyle Fingers
Recently during my flight across the pond from Florida to the UK for the London Guitar Show, I...
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My Electronic Classroom
Some years ago when I was asked that infamous question during an interview, “Where do you see...
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Tuner and the Ear
Well, friends, we have entered a new era. I’ve been keeping an eye and an ear on what’s going on...
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A Capo Conversation
Never in a million years could I have guessed that the day would come when I would be in a...
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And, My Guitar’s Name Is…
The thought about naming one of my guitars has honestly never crossed my mind. Don’t get me wrong;...
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Testing My Musicianship
Once again it was the annual check-up time for my actual level of musicianship as I made yet...
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Coolest Booth on Earth
How many times have you been drawn to a booth at a convention anywhere on the planet? For me, I’d...
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Music Around the World: Salt Lake City & Rock Springs
From Germany to New Zealand to the USA. How’s that for picking up some air miles and extra...
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- Emulating musical modelsOnline tutorials these days have a simple format. Just follow and of course you will need to slow it down, freeze frame it and work it up bit by bit in emulation of the model. This is what students do in coming to GCSE study in one Cambridgeshire secondary school and no doubt more widely. […]
- Review: PreSonus Air SeriesThe PreSonus AIR loudspeaker series offers great sound and enhanced portability at an acceptable price. Over the summer, I’ve been putting a pair of 15″ two-way tops with 15″ subs through some rather excruciating trials. The most recent event was a concert by the Australian duo Severed Heads. You can read the review at FOHonline. […]
- Bruce Springsteen Talks Politics, Marriage and Why He Won’t Write an ‘Anti-Trump Diatribe’Check out the second part of Variety’s interview with The Boss. The post Bruce Springsteen Talks Politics, Marriage and Why He Won’t Write an ‘Anti-Trump Diatribe’ appeared first on Level11Media.
- Snapshot Review: Audio-Technica’s ATM350aCardioid Condenser Instrument Microphone with UniMount components We all know that to get the best, most accurate, sound from any instrument, with the least possibility of feedback, we need the mic to be as close to the source of the sound as possible. This can be a challenge, especially when working with an ever changing […]
- “The Guys That Are In Control Are Not Honoring the Arts” (LA Times)While walking from his sculpture and painting studios to his recording studio on a typically Pacific-breezy afternoon, trumpeter, A&M Records co-founder and philanthropist Herb Alpert paused to describe his first brush with a horn. It was at a music appreciation class when he was a kid, Alpert, 82, said during a tour of his oceanfront Malibu […]