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What is tone? Tone for us guitar guys is basically, the way a guitar signal sounds. A good tone can vary between music genres and be down to personal and individual taste. The tone journey Tone starts from your fingers or pick, and then travels thought the vibration of the strings over the guitar neck and body through the pickups. From the pickups it travels through the guitar electronics, down the guitar lead, into whatever... read more.

Music notation is a language and there are various reasons why people learn it. There are on the other hand also reasons guys don’t bother with it at all, but it certainly can’t hurt to look at the pro’s and cons of learn notation before making a decision which camp your to be in. Do we actually need to learn the stave and its language to be valid guitarists and musicians? The answer is, I... read more.

Michael began doing studio work in his home town of Plymouth in the southwest of England as a hired gun for local studios. After a short time he started getting jobs writing jingles for websites and YouTube channels which lead on to product demonstration videos, song writting and even producing. Michael has had a very colourful career in the session world recording all sorts of music from Blues, Soul, Rock and even Iranian pop music!... read more.

WHAT IS REVERB? Reverb or reverberation is a natural effect of sound, reflecting off surfaces, before reaching your ears. The size, space, material and furnishings of a room affect the sound and time of reverberation. You’ll notice bathrooms tend to reverb very well, empty houses reverb better than full ones as the sound travels more. SPRING IS HERE As guitarists we probably first encounter reverb as a built in effect on an amplifier.  Unless it’s... read more.