Jessica asked:


i’d have to say bass and a Gibson SG E-03 or Fender P bass

I also like SG, Les Paul or any other gibson guitar

Mike Shaw asked:

When you are going to buy electronic keyboards or guitars from the internet the task of buying becomes all the more complicated because there are so many procedures involved. Not only is making payment risky on some sites but there is no guarantee that the site you are buying from will give you a quality product in return for your money. Sometimes you can pay your money and wait for months but still the product doesn’t arrive.

When you call their office no one picks up the call and if you are unlucky you could find that it was a scam. To help you know which sites are real and which are fake, which will give you quality products and service. We have come up with the top two sites on the internet that will help you when you want to buy electronic keyboards.

The best site would be eBay, this site can deliver to your area and the price of products and shipping costs are clearly disclosed. The quality of service provided is very high and so far there have only been a handful of complaints against eBay where products have been damaged during delivery.

Not only will your product reach you safely but eBay will give you a complete guide to help you buy an electronic keyboard online. Also with every product they advertise, they give discounts (highest of all online sites) and will give you a full product description and answer all queries that you may have.

The next site that can help you when you buying guitars and electronic keyboards online is Amazon. At this site when you go to the products page you will get a picture and full blown description of the keyboard you are trying to buy. At Amazon you can get various discounts, there is the discount where you get the shipping charges free along with the discount in prices. Sometimes accessories are also given for free.

Other than that, they deliver to your doorstep and you can also choose different delivery options. So if you ever decide to buy a Yamaha electronic keyboard or a classic Fender electric guitar online then these are my two recommended sites for safe shopping.

Clyde Lee Dennis asked:

Down, very talented Rock group have released their latest CD titled II and Wow! It’s really a good one.

Unfortunately, it’s not everyday that I get a CD for review that I can just pop in and comfortably listen to from beginning to end. There is usually a song or two that I just can’t force myself to get through. Not at all the case with II. Every track is enjoyable and was pretty easy for me to listen to from start to finish.

These days it’s a very rare CD on which every single song is good or better than the one before it. This CD is certainly one of those rare CDs.

Listen to II and I believe you’ll find there’s not much to dis-like about it. The songs are inspired, the production is simply outstanding, and this is clearly the work of a group of musicians in top form. So much so that if you’re even mildly into Rock music you’ll enjoy this CD.

While this entire CD is outstanding the truly standout tunes are track 2 - There’s Something On My Side, track 5 - Ghosts Along The Mississippi, and track 15 - Landing On The Mountains Of Meggido.

My Bonus Pick, and the one that got Sore [...as in "Stuck On REpeat"] is track 1 - Lysergik Funeral Procession. Good stuff!

II Release Notes:

Down originally released II on March 26, 2002 on the Elektra Entertainment label.

CD Track List Follows:

1. Lysergik Funeral Procession 2. There’s Something On My Side 3. Man That Follows Hell, The 4. Stained Glass Cross 5. Ghosts Along The Mississippi 6. Learn From This Mistake 7. Beautifully Depressed 8. Where I’m Going 9. Doobinterlude 10. New Orleans Is A Dying ***** 11. Seed, The 12. Lies, I Don’t Know What They Say But… 13. Flambeaux’s Jamming With St. Aug 14. Dog Tired 15. Landing On The Mountains Of Meggido

Down: Philip Anselmo (vocals); Pepper Keenan (electric guitar, timpani); Kirk Windstein (guitar); Rex Brown (Farfisa organ, keyboards, bass); Jim Bower (drums).

Additional personnel includes: Wayne Lohr (Fender Rhodes piano); Opal Anselmo (background vocals).

Max Cane asked:

Generally, guitar picks are isosceles triangle-shaped ones made up of different materials to play guitars. Guitar picks are made up of various materials including, plastic, nylon, rubber, tortoiseshell, bone, wood, felt, stone, polycarbonate, Lexan and metal. Although different manufacturers use different shapes, the most common shape is isosceles triangle with highly rounded two equal corners and less rounded third corner. You can also go for customized guitar picks of your taste.

Customized Guitar Picks

Most of the guitar picks have a sort of imprint. This may range from imprinting manufacturers’ logos to fully customized guitar picks for artists. In addition, guitar picks come with signatures and logos of popular bands and musicians. For example, Rick Nielson mass-distributed customized guitar picks of “Cheap Trick,” a renowned rock band. Customized guitar picks evolved over time, as the printing technology evolved. Even many guitar enthusiasts started collecting various types of custom guitar picks, as guitar picks have become more colorful with attractive designs and look. You can get custom picks from music concerts, since at times many guitarists throw their used guitar picks on the crowd. You may even notice some celebrity guitarists selling their guitar picks.

Guitar Picks Made of Bone

Bone guitar picks in general and many in particular favor dinosaur bone guitar picks. These guitar picks made of bone come in natural colors and some of them are even transparent. Dinosaur bone guitar picks are hand-made and fully fossilized or agatized. Bone guitar picks are ideal for rock guitarists. However, these picks are relatively costlier than picks made up of other materials.

Types of Picks and Music Styles

Guitarists use different types of picks of different thickness to generate their desired sound. The thickness of the guitar also depends on the kind of strings and playing styles. Electric guitar players who play rock and metal music prefer thicker picks to produce more controllable, delicate and great music. Guitar players who play farthest genres, such as, black metal, death metal or punk rock prefer soft guitar picks. Many Jazz guitar players prefer to use very thick guitar picks, since they like heavy gauge strings. However, there is no written rule on selecting a particular pick. It is purely based on personal choice. Steel guitar picks are believed to be producing much brighter sounds than that of plastic picks. However, steel picks may damage the finish of the acoustic guitars.

Finding the Thickness of the Guitar Picks

Several of the manufacturers, including, Alicem Jim, Dunlop and Teckpick, imprint the thickness of their picks thousands or in mm on the pick itself. Popular guitar manufacturers like Fender, Gibson, Ibanez and Peavey sometimes used cryptic way of denoting the thickness of the picks.

Therefore, if you have the passion for guitar picks and want a celebrity signature, it is better to opt for customized guitar picks. You can claim you are a collector too.

Victor Epand asked:


Acoustic guitars use the hollow resonating chamber of the body of the guitar to amplify and resonate the sound of the strings being plucked, but on an electric guitar, this isn’t the case. The body of an electric guitar is usually entirely solid, and the sound of the strings being struck is picked up by something called a pickup, which basically measures the amount of vibration of a particular string, and transmits this frequency to an amplifier. The amplifier then magnifies this frequency to create a sound which is not only audible, but also usually modified or distorted in some way to create the distinctive sound of an electric guitar. Without a pickup or an amplifier, the sound of an electric guitar is less than impressive, and is by no means merely a quieter version of what you would hear with an amplifier.

The pickups work by detecting the amount of vibration of a string, because the amount of vibration is directly equivalent to the frequency, and it is the frequency of a string’s vibration that generates the note. By holding a string down against one of the frets on the fret board or neck of the guitar, the length of the string is reduced, and as a result, the string’s natural vibration of frequency is changed, and this in turn affects the note. There are different types of pickup that work in slightly different ways, but the most commonly found variety is an electromagnet. The electromagnetic pickups are bundles of copper wire wound very tightly into a small coil, and these are then positioned right underneath the strings. When the string is struck, it moves, and this generates a very small electric field measurable in volts, and this voltage is the signal which is sent to the amplifier.

Effectively such electromagnetic pickups work in the same way as an electric generator. These coils of copper wires are either found as single coils or as doubles, with the advantage being that double coil pickups are less likely to pick up noise from other nearby electric fields. In the 1950s the double coil humbucker was developed, and this used two separate copper coils, with one placed in the opposite polarity of the other, and this effectively cancelled out any problem as far as stray electrical field noise was concerned. These double coil humbuckers do create a different sound and tone to the single coil pickups, generally considered to be a much heavier sound, whereas the single coil pickups are used by those players looking for a much brighter sound, and usually with a much broader range.

Today the style of pickup is generally tailored to suit the type of sound that the player wants to try to achieve, and the general rule of thumb is that the smaller the amount of copper wire used in the coil, the brighter the sound, whereas the more coils used, and the more wire used in the pickup, the heavier the overall sound will be. There are also sometimes options to have the coil wired for extra switching, so that effects can be achieved by altering the way the coil works, and thereby changing the sound of the note dynamically. These effects usually require the guitar to have battery power to achieve the changes.

Although double coil pickups are usually the maximum, there are exceptions, and the Fender Stratocaster is one very well known example. The Fender Stratocaster actually uses three coil pickups, and this is what gives this particular model of guitar such a distinctive tone. In complete contrast, there are also piezoelectric pickups which use crystals positioned under each string, and when the string is struck, its vibrations very slightly alter the shape of the crystal. As the crystal changes shape, a very small voltage of electricity is produced, and by amplifying this, the sound is achieved.

Tiednbound asked:

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Victor Epand asked:

The bass guitar is a bass stringed instrument played with the fingers either by plucking, slapping, popping, or tapping or using a pick. The bass is similar in appearance and construction like an electric guitar, but with a larger body, a longer neck and scale length, and usually four strings tuned, one octave lower in pitch than the four lower strings of a guitar.

Materials used for making a bass guitar

The bodies of these special instruments are typically made of wood although other materials such as graphite have also been used. The most common type of wood used for the body is alder, for the neck is maple, and for the fret board is rosewood, though a wide variety of woods may be used to make the body.

Other regularly used woods include mahogany, maple, ash, and poplar for bodies, mahogany for necks, and ebony for fret boards. The choice of body material and shape of these guitars can have a significant impact on the timbre of the completed instrument as well as on aesthetic considerations. Other design options include finishes, such as lacquer, wax and oil along with flat and carved designs. Bass guitar necks, which are longer than regular electric guitar necks, are generally made of maple.

A brief history

In the 1930s, inventor Paul Tutmarc from Seattle, Washington, developed a guitar style electric bass instrument that was fretted and designed to be held and played horizontally. Unfortunately, Tutmarc inventions never caught the public imagination, and little further development of the instrument took place until the 1950s.

In the 1950s, Leo Fender developed the first mass produced electric bass. In the 1950s and 1960s, the term Fender bass was widely used to describe the bass guitars, because of early popularity of Fender in the market for mass produced bass guitars.

Different components of the bass guitar

Thi skind of guitar uses various components to produce music. Some of these components are strings and its tuning, fret or fretless bass, pickups, amplification and effects.

Frets and fretless bass

Frets are a raised metal strips inserted into the fingerboard that extend across the full width of the neck. On a fretted bass, the frets divide the fingerboard into semitone divisions. The original Fender basses had 20 frets. Fretless basses have a distinct sound, because the absence of frets means that the strings must be pressed down directly onto the wood of the fingerboard.

Strings and tuning

The standard design for the bass guitar has four strings, tuned E, A, D and G, with the original frequency of the E string set at about 41 Hz, making the tuning of all four strings the same as that of the double bass. This tuning is also the same as the standard tuning on the lower four strings on a 6 string guitar, only an octave lower.

Pickups

Most electric basses use magnetic pickups. The vibrations of the instrument metal strings within the magnetic field of the permanent magnets in magnetic pickups produce small variations in the magnetic flux threading the coils of the pickups.

Amplification and effects

The electric bass is always connected to an amplifier for live performances. Electric bass guitarists use either a combo amplifier, which combines an amplifier and a speaker in a single cabinet, or an amplifier and a separate speaker cabinet.

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William McRea asked:

Ibanez electric guitars have received quite a following, but a lot of people do not realize that their acoustic line is also well made and sounds great. The company started in 1900 under a different name by Hoshino Gaki in Japan. Though the company began at the turn of the 20th century, they did not start making guitars until 1935.

In general, the company was relatively unknown in the United States until the 60s. Hoshino Gakki partnered with Harry Rosenbloom, an American music shop owner in Pennsylvania. They decided that the name, the Hoshino Gaki Company, did not have what it took to signify success in the West. So, together, they came up with Ibanez, thus making the guitars more marketable based on the name alone.

Some of their early guitars included styles that were modeled after the popular guitars put out by large companies like Gibson and Fender. They were able to find people to use their instruments by offering nearly exact replicas of these brands for inexpensive prices. This helped them get their name out there, but it was not their permanent solution to success.

They no longer model their guitars after the success of others. They currently have their own line of both acoustic and electric guitars and the Ibanez brand is endorsed by some pretty accomplished players. Some of these players even have their own signature models. For example, Steve Vai is a very accomplished solo player and he has his own line through Ibanez which also includes an acoustic model.

Ibanez has a full line of acoustic guitars. These include the acoustic in the Steve Vai signature series, the AE, the Talman, the masa the GA, and the DT. For more information on the acoustic guitar line, visit the website at ibanez.com.

There are also a lot of musicians who love Ibanez guitars in general, and several actively endorse the brand. These include Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, and Andy Timmons, who are all accomplished solo players. Other guitarists include Terry Balsamo, Adam Blackstone, and Mike DeWolf. For more information on the artists visit the website.

Here is what some people have to say about their Ibanez Acoustic guitars:

About the Ibanez DT 10

Beautiful style and sound!. Great tone quality, nice finish. I started playing the guitar a little over a year ago. I was lucky to get a good deal on my Ibanez, since I did not even know where to begin. I walked into our local music store, stood at the counter, and said, I want to buy a guitar.

About the Ibanez AW100

This is a good guitar with a great sound. It holds up to the Ibanez reputation with a nice feel and an even better sound. It is a very sturdy guitar that can take a lot of abuse even for an acoustic. It has a nice bright sound and a smooth thin neck.

Another for the Ibanzes AW100

Great sound and solid top for this price is exceptional. Great starter guitar. I have played the guitar for about 12 years no so recently I have been in the market, or at least looking and drooling over, a higher end guitar. My recent research has lead me to be quite up to date on several different guitar makers and the individual.

Jessica Deets asked:

There’s a great fun little amp that can help you over those playing plateaus you may have been experiencing. I’ll tell you about it in a moment.

You see… I’ve been playing guitar for a while, and sometimes it just gets to where I play the same songs over and over again. Some of the songs are ones that I was playing 10 years ago, even 20 years ago.

I’ve got an EVH Wolfgang and a VOX Valvetronix AD60vtx and they just go great together, but it felt like sometimes I’d play and have fun… and sometimes things just wouldn’t come together (couldn’t play worth a darn, couldn’t get the right sound, or it just didn’t feel “right”). Have you ever had times like that?

But I found something simple and easy that has renewed my enthusiasm… and expanded the depth of my guitar playing. Don’t laugh… but I’m going to tell you about the Fender G-DEC.

I know it looks more like a kids toy than a serious amp. Afterall, you can’t get much out of 15 watts… or can you?

I found the amp is great for beginners and even for those that have been playing for a while. The box says it’s got the “Drummer and Bassist Included” and all that is need is you. It’s true. My wife got it for me for Christmas (yes… I opened it early) and I can’t stop playing it. In fact, my legs want to give out from the hours of standing and playing this week.

If you’re a beginner… you absolutely need this amp. It will make your playing sound balanced and be a real boost to your confidence. I bought my 8 year old a Fender Mini Strat and I know he’s gonna have a blast with this amp… as it covers over a multitude of sins.

If you’ve got more experience, this truly makes for a fun practice amp. It comes with 50 presets that you can fully customize and has lots of effects. You can change or remove the drums, you can remove the bass, you can change the effects and keep playing… all in real time.

It can really crank out some of those old Fender surf sounds (Dick Dale blast-back time) and it emulates other amps well. It’s got a little AC/DC in there, some Led Zeppelin, Hendrix, Clapton, Van Halen (well… kinda), Country, Jazz and Latin.

I find that I take the amp songs and settings that I don’t like (I used to not like latin, but with this amp I’ve changed my mind) and then play some songs there to add variety in what I play… by doing this, I actually get a different kind of experience in my playing. You can also store another 50 of your own settings and the G-DEC has a MIDI input, so I’ve got a friend that is the absolute MIDI expert, and we’re looking through his thousands of files to see what we want to add to this amp.

The other night I was playing to the “surf” setting and before I knew it, a couple hours had passed. Then we cranked out Clapton the next night. Last night it was Dixie Rock (I couldn’t imagine ever playing this style… now its enjoyable).

There’s no way that this amp can keep up with a real drummer in the room… but when you’re just by yourself, you can get almost “loud” and really enjoy the sound you get. With the door open, your neighbors walking down the street can hear it… and it’s just loud enough to impress your friends.

The Fender G-DEC amp runs about $300, some places have it as low as $270. You can find the description at Fender’s website.

If you didn’t get everything you wanted for Christmas… sneak out and grab one of these little “babies.” It’s money well spent and I believe you’ll have a great time with it.

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