It may look a cross-pollination between the ideals of a swiss cheese master craftsman, a Dali soft watch and a carbon fibre pretzel but the XOX handle guitar tries to push guitar manufacturing beyond the scope of the usual materials, componentry and ergonomics. Many companies have tried to free the electric guitar from the vice […]
In the previous post I took a rather circuitous journey from the lute through to the Chapman stick – a lute-like modern fret based instrument that occupies a unique space in between the guitar , the lute and the piano. If you have ever wondered why the mathematical complexities of a 6 string guitar account for the […]
Just in case you`re already finding the 6 strings of your guitar a little limiting – [or maybe that`s just your head? ] – I`d like to look forwards and backwards with regards to where you might like to draw your inspiration from and where you may take it to… Around twenty years ago I […]
Aggregators, connectors , samplers, grooves, licks and threads! What does it all mean? It means that Nile Rodgers guitar playing launched HIP HOP into the New York Underground. Well, here at last its the post we`ve all been waiting for. It`s the behemoth of influential guitar-production groove genius that is Nile Rodgers! I`ve previously mentioned […]
I really don’t want to learn to play the guitar, but I want to get girls. Can your program be tweaked so I skip the guitar part and go directly to getting girls? Getting girls seems like a very important thing to do, but playing the guitar today is just being like a million other […]