“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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Category: Richard Gilewitz
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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Pickin’, Grinnin’, Breathin’, and Clenchin’
No matter how long I’ve played my instruments, worked with my teachers (past and present), or...
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- Practical knowledge and music educationIn last week’s blog I wondered about the idea of a skills-based music curriculum at a time when there is an intensified discourse surrounding the idea of a knowledge-based curriculum extended to a knowledge-rich curriculum. [1] In my blog I differentiated between ‘knowing how’ and ‘skill’. Practical knowledge and music education thumbnail courtesy of wordpress.com […]
- ‘A guitarist’s guitarist’ picks his way to Surrey for free clinic/concertReaders of Guitar Player magazine once voted him Best Acoustic Guitarist, and Acoustic Guitar’s People’s Choice Awards earned D’Agostino a bronze medal for Best Acoustic Album of All Time, for “Every Step of The Way. “Peppino gives guitar workshops, master classes and seminars worldwide. Top leading publishers such as Truefire, Alfred Publishing, Hal Leonard and […]
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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. […]