Modellivesmusic Part Backing Tracks

Modellivesmusic Part Backing Tracks
Why Every Guitarist Should Use Guitar Backing Tracks
By: E Walker
Guitar backing tracks are essential armory that every lead guitarist should have. Without it, it would be difficult to play solos or lead guitar.If you have moved from the basic stage into the advanced stage then it doesn't mean that you are ready to play the solo or lead live on stage. There are many more aspects to playing a guitar solo and one of them is learning to play with guitar backing tracks.

The good thing is that you can purchase some of best professionally recorded guitar backing tracks from companies such as Planet of Rock. It will come for a cost depending on the track and the band. These guitar backing tracks are a must for all those who are dreaming of playing their own solo someday in the near future.

What it really does is that it replaces the need for a band playing the background. For example: if you want to practice your solo with a Eddie Van Halen or a Jimi Hendrix number, you don't really need a bassist, drummer and rhythm guitarist. All you need is the guitar backing track for that specific number and you will be good to go. These tracks are perfect for a nice jam session when you are practicing without a band.

The reason why every guitarist should use guitar backing tracks is because they are options you can have for practicing advanced lead guitar techniques. This is a type of tool that will help you especially when you want to work on new licks or practice different type of scales like the blues scale, the pentatonic scales etc. You can even use guitar backing tracks for rhythm guitar.

One of the important aspects of guitar backing tracks is that it will help you to improve your timing immensely. You will never go out of tune or end up playing the wrong scale. The reason why most guitarists in their advanced learning stage use guitar backing tracks is because it helps them to prepare for live gigs.

Playing at a live gig is very different from playing in a studio. You will not have any room for mistakes as you will be playing right in front of an live and responsive audience. So you will need to hone your skills and the most effective way of doing that is by playing with guitar backing tracks. Guitar backing tracks are available for some of the top numbers in rock, metal, blues and alternative.

Modellivesmusic Part Play Guitar Quickly

Modellivesmusic Part Play Guitar Quickly
Learning How To Play Guitar Quickly
The guitar lessons of expert instructor Ben Edwards, even if they were nothing else, would still represent a breakthrough in technological innovation for learning the guitar. Many people who once upon a time would have been put off from learning the guitar or advancing to a higher level on the instrument can now use the power of 21st century technology and the magic of the Internet to have better odds of making new musical discoveries.

Such guitar lessons give whole new dimensions to the universe of mastering the guitar, regardless of what genres you want to play or do play. Whether you are a rocker, a country girl, a blues man, or fueled by classical gas, or anything else, there is something here that is likely to help you improve your playing.

A long time instructor, he became absolutely fed up with two things about all the traditional forms of guitar lessons: they were boring and none of them were comprehensive enough. Chord books did not teach you anything about lead playing. Books about playing lead left you in the dark about chord progressions, chord building, and playing rhythm.

Guitar player magazines would include lessons in everything, but these lessons were isolated and left the student needing to only hope he had played the lessons the right way; and if he had not, he ultimately harmed his guitar playing. Laying out a lot of cash over time for private guitar lessons could be frightening and discouraging, and once a lesson came and went the student never knew for sure if he remembered it correctly as he practiced alone.

Edwards decided to add dynamics never before seen in guitar lessons; not even in past attempts at DVD or VHS guitar playing videos (for these, too, lacked comprehensiveness unless one put out a ton of money to build a large library of them). Leveraging the Internet and the most modern digitization and videography technologies, he created a special all-in-one set of guitar lessons as well as some guitar tools, like an electronic guitar tuner, that could simply be downloaded and easily played over and over again anytime at ones convenience.

You will most likely not become a guitar virtuoso in one week (although maybe you will feel like it), and some people have tried this type of guitar lessons having very unrealistic expectations. But, such revolutionized guitar lessons will help you along much faster with more in-depth material and cheaper cost than any guitar lessons ever known before.

Perhaps that is why its best quality is simply that it makes you really want to practice the guitar, and not perceive guitar practice as a burden or chore. There are certainly more reasons now than ever before to begin learning guitar. It is truly getting easier for everyone, regardless of their age, education or experience.

Modellivesmusic Part III

Modellivesmusic Part III
The Difference Between Electric Guitar Bodies And Acoustic Bodies
By: Victor Epand
Because electric guitars are quite different in the way that they produce the sound, the body of an electric guitar is built quite differently to that of an acoustic or classical one. On a classical guitar, the strings, when plucked or struck, resonate, vibrating the air inside the body cavity. This hollow body cavity vibrates with the sound of the strings, and amplifies the notes. On an electric guitar however, the sound is amplified only by an external, electronic amplifier, and so the body of an electric guitar is usually solid, since no air vibration or cavity is needed. Indeed, without the external amplifier the sound of an electric guitar on its own is fairly pitiful. The body of an electric guitar is usually made of wood, although the pick guard is normally plastic.

Prior to the 1970s guitars were often made from a solid piece of hardwood, but in the last thirty or forty years, the worldwide stock of hardwood has been so depleted that finding a piece large enough and suitable for a guitar body is not only difficult, but exceedingly expensive. Therefore, today, most electric guitar bodies are made from at least two pieces of hardwood, with a seam that connects them together running down the centre of the body. The hardwoods most often used for constructing the body of an electric guitar include maple, ash, poplar, basswood and mahogany, all of which provide a solid, firm body that is unlikely to warp or bend as a result of either humidity, or the constant pressure of the steel strings. When you look at a guitar, it is not always obvious what type of wood is used, and this is because the normal hardwoods, by the very nature of being hardwood, are less patterned.

To create a visually striking and attractive appearance, designers and manufacturers of electric guitars usually apply a very thin piece of a more attractive wood to the outside of the body, to create an attractive wood finish, whilst still retaining the solid hardwood body. Typically these veneer coverings of wood, which are usually glued to the main body, are made from such woods as maple, which usually produces a very striking flame effect, and guitars that use this flame appearance through the use of maple are called flame top guitars or simply 'flame tops'. Because a number of other pieces of the guitar need to be attached very firmly to the body of an electric guitar, the hardwood is usually gouged or routed to accept these other elements being slotted in. For an acoustic or classical guitar, the inside can be accessed to attach braces to increase the firmness of these extra components, such as the bridge and neck, but as an electric guitar's body is entirely solid, this is not possible.

Today, there are some electric guitars being made which do not use wood in the construction at all, and instead are using modern alternatives, usually synthetically produced. These alternatives to wood include carbon composites and even plastic based materials such as polycarbonate. In some instances electric guitars have been made with aluminium based alloys, which whilst very strong, is also extremely light. Electric guitars, more than most other types of guitar, are usually decorated and designed as much for appearance as sound quality, and so the body of an electric guitar is often lacquered and polished to a high sheen, to either bring out the wooden effect, or to simply produce an even more vibrant appearance. Often electric guitar bodies are decorated with extravagant designer labels or motifs to create a strikingly visual instrument, as well as one strong enough to withstand heavy use.

Modellivesmusic Part Guide To Cubase4

Your Guide To Steinberg Cubase Studio 4
By: Ben Needles
If you have spent any time in a recording studio, you have undoubtedly heard of Cubase, and of the different versions available to take your recording to the next level. Choosing the right equipment and software is crucial to studio success, which is why this article will highlight some of the features of this recording software.

Based on Steinbergs Cubase 4 Advanced Music Production System, Steinberg Cubase Studio 4 picks up where the older versions of Cubase left off, and features Steinbergs Play Order track, which allows for easy creating and arranging of patterns, as well as the AudioWarp feature for real time pitch shifting and stretching of audio.
Another new feature of this version is a more flexible Control Room section which allows for up to four independent studio mixes.

Cubase 4 comes with a brand-new VST3 plug-in set and four new integrated software instruments with more than 1000 sounds. The Soundframe feature is a powerful combination of Track Presets, Instrument Tracks, and MediaBay database, to help organize all your sounds from every instrument - both software VSTi and hardware.

The interface for this software contains many unique features and offers many ways for a user to change the way it appears while a song is being recorded. Cubase SE also offers many of audio and MIDI recording features with comprehensive editing and effects.

Designed from the ground up for professional music production, Cubase 4 sets a new standard for integrated music production software by combining powerful audio and MIDI recording, synthesis, editing, mixing and effects.

Control Room eliminates the need for an external mixer and gives you virtual control room functionality right inside your DAW by combining audio and MIDI recording, synthesis, editing, mixing and effects.

This Cubase 4 Studio package contains 46 plug-ins to give you the capability to create, record, and mix. Designed with meticulous attention to detail, Cubase Studio 4 features an extensively redesigned and enhanced user interface.

The overall visibility of active items versus inactive items has been drastically enhanced. And with Steinberg Cubase SE you are using a system that you can upgrade whenever you choose to the higher Cubase SX/SL versions that are used by professional audio and music professionals worldwide.

Whether you are an established studio presence, or just beginning, you will appreciate the ease, flexibility, and features of this new version.

Modellivesmusic Part Les Paul Guitars

Modellivesmusic Part III
Les Paul Guitars - What Makes Them Special?
By: Ricky Sharples
The Gibson Les Paul guitar was conceived at the very beginning of electric guitar history and has held its place at the forefront of guitar technology ever since. The two key elements that make the Les Paul guitars special are the vision of Les Paul himself, an eminent guitarist and enthusiastic inventor and the fact that the Gibson guitar company has always held extremely high standards of excellence for its instruments.

Les Paul is often credited with inventing the solid body electric guitar, and his involvement with the Gibson models was more or less just a happy accident. When he was a teenage performer he tried amplifying an ordinary acoustic guitar so that he could be heard by the audience. The feedback that resulted was finally eliminated by attaching the neck of an Epiphone guitar onto a block of wood. This was so strange looking that Les' musical talents were not taken seriously so he attached wings to the side of the wood so that it resembled a conventional guitar shape.

The moving force behind the financial and artistic success of the Les Paul guitar was the desire of the Gibson Guitar Corporation to market a solid body model electric guitar under the name of an established guitarist. By this time, the early 1950's, Les Paul was the most popular electric guitar player of the time. It would be a great triumph for Gibson to snare the endorsement of this guitarist who had conceived and made his own electric guitar which had become the basis for a solid electric guitar sold by his friend, Leo Fender. Eventually, after recommending some changes to the appearance of the new Gibson guitar, Les Paul allowed it to be released under his name.

There are a couple of design elements that stand out in the Les Paul range of guitars. The strings on a Les Paul guitar are mounted "hollow body style" on top of the guitar instead of passing through the body as is common with other brands of solid body guitars. This is merely a stylistic distinction, not affecting the sound of the guitar. The characteristic warm tone of the Les Paul guitars is due to the types of wood chosen by Gibson for these models. As we should expect from a guitar endorsed by the man whose own guitar design was nicknamed "the log", Les Paul guitars are also heavier and thicker than other solid body guitars. Both Les Paul and the Gibson corporation were fans of starting with substance and piling on heaps of style, so most Les Paul model guitars feature flashy inlays on the neck and headstock.

The Gibson Guitar Corporation has made many models under the Les Paul brand. Featuring names like Classic, Supreme, Standard, Studio Baritone, Studio, Goddess, Menace, New Century, Vixen, Special, Doublecuts and Melody Maker, each one has its own individual sound. Between 1969 and 1979 Gibson even marketed a range of Les Paul bass guitars. The Gibson Les Paul guitars have also been imitated by other companies such as Ibanez and Tokai. The legal wrangles surrounding these attempts at copying Les Paul guitars have only added to their collectibility.