What’s in a pick? A pick by any other material will sound as percussive, right? In some ways that’s right. A pick (also called a plectrum), by definition, is “a small thin piece of metal, plastic, bone, or similar material, used to pluck the strings of certain instruments, such as the guitar or lute” (from [...]
ca·po NOUN:Inflected forms: pl. ca·posA small movable bar placed across the fingerboard of a guitar or similar instrument so as to raise the pitch of all the strings uniformly. ETYMOLOGY:Italian capo (di tastiera), head (of the fingerboard), from Latin caput. If you’ve read Mario Puzo’s “The Godfather” you’d be familiar with the word “capo,” or [...]
I’ve been doing it for two decades now, but playing guitar on a church worship team can still be challenging. At All Nations Christian Fellowship, of which my family and I have been part since 2000, I like to think that the team has gotten the entire thing down to a system, but sometimes the [...]
Our Manila trip was altogether too busy, with the family going out almost daily to various places for some R&R. I managed to visit a music store – Perfect Pitch at MegaMall – only once, and I used the time to test Line 6’s Variax guitar. I already own one of Line 6’s products, the [...]
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