The whammy bar has many names: the tremolo bar, tremolo arm, vibrato bar, and twang bar. But in this article I will refer to it as the “whammy bar”. The whammy bar is a tool guitar players use to make a vibrato sort of sound on their guitar. The whammy bar has many uses, you ...
Improvising on any instrument requires knowledge of several things. It also takes a lot of practice to become good, and to develop a listenable voice. The main ingredient: melody. While some instruments, such as wind instruments, lend themselves mainly to melody, others like stringed instruments can be more rhythmic in nature. If you’ve been playing ...
A few years ago I decided I need a new guitar since mine was getting a little old, and was a little out of style. Christmas Day was coming up so I decided to ask my parents for a new guitar to help enhance my musical ability. I didn’t want a guitar worth thousands upon ...
Movie Review – Crossroads (1986) The movie Crossroads, not to be confused with that Britney Spears pop flop released in 2002, is a movie about music first and foremost. The story starts in New York City at Julliard but moves to Mississippi for some blues laden guitar and intertwines with a boy who is seeking ...
For a generation of baby boomers, that infamous graffiti painted on the decaying walls of a London building was the astute capitulation of the musical aspirations of radical youth in a radical time. “Clapton is god”, it said, and rightly so. The sixties was a revolutionary period of ambitious, idealistic change, and Clapton’s wailing guitar ...
Marvin Lee Aday, aka Meat Loaf, is set to release a third installment in his mega-hit series, Bat Out of Hell. Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Out will be unleashed by Virgin in North America and Universal worldwide on October 31st. VH1 will premiere the first video from the album on August ...
It’s hard to believe that one of rock’s original masterpieces was released in 1977. The master of the microphone was an overweight talented musician/actor from Texas with a very unlikely name: Meat Loaf. The groundbreaking album was titled, “Bat Out Of Hell.” The release composed by master wordsmith Jim Steinman contained the staple jukebox favorite, ...