March 2nd, 2008
Mashable! has a great post up today with 11 excellent resources available on the web for learning to play the guitar:
You can learn to do just about anything on the web, and guitar playing is no different. Yeah, I know you’ve mastered the toughest songs on Guitar Hero III, but can you actually play a guitar? We’ve got 11 tools to help you start living out your dreams of being a rock legend… you know, when you’re not coding a new Twitter application.
You can read the article here:
There are some great resources listed there, including lessons, tabs and other goodies. Enjoy!
December 24th, 2007
Top of the season to you all from us here at aquaeffector. It has been a pretty nutty year, could have blogged a bit more, but heaps of stuff keeping us busy. Anyway wishing you all the very best for 2008 - year of the mouse!
I found this blog - Guitar Made Easy - which I thought might be useful to some of you out there. I liked this post -
That has always been a challenge! And I really respect people who can drink and / or smoke whilst nailing it… Superhuman:)
And there is a really useful article from David Bryne (ex Talking Heads) up at wired.com talking about different ways to approach music distribution. Well worth a read if you don’t want to get ripped off by some suit wearing music company RIAA git.
Rock on!
March 26th, 2007
If you make music, particularly music on your computer, or using samples, then you may be interested in the SampleSwap website. SampleSwap offers free professional audio samples without advertsing. The samples are available in the .aiff format which is easily convertable into .wav format for those still using windows.
At the time of writing SampleSwap’s collection is currently 4.6 GB (9,823 sounds) including 1,860 techno, hiphop, trance, and drum ‘n’ bass loops / breakbeats, 2700 drum hits, 2040 sound FX, 570 instrument samples, 810 vocal samples, 748 melodic loops, and more.
The site has a forum which includes useful tips for music production, music contests and other cool stuff.
UPDATE: They now have an iphones site for your enjoyment: “You can now listen to music by SampleSwap artists on your iPhone at iphone.sampleswap.org
Very nice!
