| Contents: |
| - Welcome |
| - What's New |
| - Recommended Guitar and Musician Sites |
| - Guitar Tips |
| - Site of the Month |
| - Songs added in this update |
| Welcome! Welcome to the June/July newsletter for 2010. There are 10 more great songs for you to learn, two great guitar lessons, and a whole bunch more! I hope you will find it useful.Ten songs added - hopefully enough of a mix that you will want to try out at least of few of 'em! I'm still trying to keep pace with the changing landscape of popular music as we near the end of the first decade of the new millennium. Up to recently, there has always been a well of new guitar music to draw from, but of late this hasn't been the case, so I'm straying into the unfamiliar territories of 'techno-pop', rockabilly, old and new-Americana, one song with (gulp) a hip-hop interlude(!) - and a few others - all good stuff, and surprisingly well-suited to playing on guitar, tho' you do have to adapt to the absence of electronics and find a way to make these songs your own. Of course I've 'rolled back the years' for a couple of the songs too! The songs I've worked out and added this time 'round are from Ben Kweller, Bruce Springsteen, Plan B, Cathey Davey, Lady Antebellum, Florence and the Machine, Imelda May, Soft Cell/Marily Manson, The Doors, and Scouting for Girls. There are now chords and lyrics to 1,890 songs, by more than 260 artists, on the site. There are 1,187 on the specific artist pages, and 703 between the miscellaneous Rock Songs, Pop Songs, Folk Songs, Soul/R&B, Christmas and Oldstuff pages. Dont forget to check out these pages if you cant find a specific page for the artist you're looking for. Recommended Sites - Guitar Learning Resource Sites Amazing Guitar Secrets, easily the most complete and comprehensive of the online guitar courses I have found, is a program I would most strongly recommend for anyone serious about becoming a guitar player. The course is really well constructed, with a great balance of practical lessons, using video, audio and tablature, and a thorough tutorial on guitar and music theory, presented in an exciting way which is never boring, and makes you WANT to learn! Click Guitar Secrets to read more Dan has also some targetted specialist courses - Blues Guitar Secrets and Acoustic Guitar Secrets and he has recently launched his latest resource "Ultimate Guide to Chords" - Click on "Ultimate Chord Guide" to learn more. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Chris Elmore has now consolidated all of his great learning resources under the ElmoreMusic banner GuitarTips is a must visit resource, with over 70 guitar lessons and tips for the learning guitarist ( and, let's face it, that's all of us! ) Check out what's on offer at: http://www.guitartips.com/ or at the parent site, ElmoreMusic.com Thousands of guitarists have already registered for another of Chris' new guitarist resources Guitar Songs , which takes you through the whole songwriting process, and gives you all of the information and technique to begin writing your own songs. Click Guitar Songs to read more The latest recruit to the Elmore Music family of guitar resources is 'Rock Guitar Methods', which features practical lessons and theory specifically tailored to the needs of aspiring rock guitar players.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Recommended Site - Keyboard Resources There is a really excellent site which teaches you to play piano, learning by ear as well as music theory. HearAndPlay is a MultiMedia keyboard lessons site with a unique teaching style which gets you actually playing songs straight away! Click Keyboard lessons to read more Recommended Site - Guitar PC Software SongSurgeon is a great new software tool which will hugely benefit all musicians ( not just guitarists). The main concept, like that of all great ideas, is really simple. You can control the speed of any song, or part of a song - whether it is on a CD or in one of the many formats (MP3, WAV, WMA etc. ) on your PC. Click Song Manager to read more ~~~~~ Regular visitors to my site will know that I don't litter my pages with crappy ads, and only endorse sites that I have personally checked out, and when I'm sure that they offer value resources to my visitors. I've been promoting Amazing Guitar Secrets, GuitarTips, and HearAndPlay for some time, because I know that musicians who click thru will find sites with real and obvious quality and value. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Recommended Sites - Site of the Month Site of the month for July 2010 is Guntheranderson.com - Gunther has a selection of chords and lyrics to songs, most of which you will never find on my site! This may sound like a criticism - absolutely not! From day one I decided my own site would feature an eclectic mix of songs by artists I like, or where I just like the song.Just looking at the "A" section of Gunther's songs arranged by artist name, you'll find Abba, Hoyt Axton, Paul Anka, AC/DC, Aerosmith, and a bunch more which I won't be including on my site. While there is some overlap, this is a chords and lyrics site which pretty much complements mine. If you're looking for a song, and can't find it on my site, I would advise visiting this great resource before exposing yourself to the hardship of trying to find an accurate version on any of the "warehouse" sites ( the ones boasting 200,000+ songs, where there are 20 versions of the song you want, and few, if any, accurate transcriptions ). Nice one, Gunther! Previous 'SOM' Sites:
If you need help reading tab, there is a "Tabs Guide" link at the end of the artist list on the left side of my home page, which will explain the theory of guitar tabs, and show you how to read and play them. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Once again, the Guitar tips/mini-lessons this month come from Guitar Teaching Guru Dan Denley Dan has been a generous contributor to the Guitar Tips section of this newsletter for a number of years now. His many courses ( detailed above ), covering all aspects of guitar playing, are the best I have seen anywhere, and because of the prominence of my website, I have been asked to review pretty much every online or DVD-based guitar course there is. In the first lesson ( about 3 mins ), putting musical terms aside for a moment, Dan shows you how to accentuate your guitar solos ( or chord progressions ) by a simple but effective technique known as 'Palm Muting'. This creates those 'stop' moments in your playing which create tension and add an exciting flair to your song or lead solo. The second lesson ( about 8 mins ) shows you the differences between the major scale and the minor scale. Dan shows you the technique and theory to make the required changes, initially for the Natural Minor Scale, and from there to the Harmonic Minor Scale. This is part 1 of a two part lesson, I will be featuring the second part in the next newsletter. Both lessons are excerpts from Dan's flagship guitar course "Amazing Guitar Secrets" - or "The guitar players Bible", as I often refer to it! Check out these lessons at the links below: Techniques for improving your guitar sound - Palm Muting Learning the Natural Minor Scale and Harmonic Minor Scale (Part 1)
For my own previous articles for learning guitarists, check out: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List of songs added June-July 2010 (10 songs) Click here to visit the site, click here for the New Songs page ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Doors Break on Through ( To the other side ) Bruce Springsteen: Old Dan Tucker Soft Cell / Marilyn Manson: Tainted Love Lady Antebellum American Honey Ben Kweller: Wasted and Ready Cathey Davey: Little Red Imelda May: Big Bad Handsome Man Scouting for Girls: This Ain't a Love Song Florence and the Machine: You've Got the Love Plan B: She Said
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Enjoy your music! P.J. Murphy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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