18 Jan

Bass Tuning Basics

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Straightforward guide for tuning your bass guitar. Tuning by ear is a skill that everyone should practice.

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18 Dec

Fight’em ’til You Can’t

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I have definitely been a reawakening of Anthrax. Of the Big Four this summer so I have to say that Anthrax most impressive. Despite his age, shows they are a joy that is hard to ignore. Moreover, even though I’m a fan of Anthrax 90′s and John Bush, so I must say I am deeply impressed with Joey Belladonna. He gives perhaps a bit boring impression and is too sweet, but when he sings so fantastically well so it does not matter.

Below, they play a new song that would / should be on the new album Worship Music by has been deferred late singer Dan Nelson was high. But the song is king and this bodes well.

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17 Dec

Beginner Guitar Lessons: Barre Chords

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For tabs: www.freeguitarvideos.com This is an introductory lesson on bar chords.

Bill talks about how to set the lows, the mids and the highs on your amp.

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05 Dec

Tips for promoting bands online

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Here are some tips that might perhaps be useful.

  • If you have any videos to upload of course put these on Youtube. No recorded
    music video? you can always add tracks with various pictures.
  • Youtube is basically a must to be on, one of the most visited sites.
    And who knows, maybe your video becomes popular?
  • Become “friends” with a bunch of people on Myspace, write messages to the public, advertise every time something new happens in the band. etc.. (This applies of course also all other pages you see. Also, write about your band in various forums. But “spamming” is not in any order you will be banned!)
  • Upload your songs everywhere on the proportion of sites you can choose for yourself to get paid or if you want people to download for free. If you want to spread it all for free so I recommend including file sharing sites as Pirate Bay. It’s perfectly legal as long as you do not have a contract with record labels / publishers, etc. who say otherwise.
  • Otherwise there are lots of other sites here where you can spread their music. Here are 35 such sites: Download Squad
  • up is also a need to be on today! Several hundred million people there, and thus a lot of potential fans. (Whether you are personally fans of FB or not) Best, I think Facebook is when doing “events” for live shows because it can easily reach several hundred people.
  • Get a newsletter for the band, you can make one completely free.
  • In addition to the Internet is well otherwise the best way to promote his music through to play as much as possible to live, create a good live reputation and so on. It is often so record companies discover bands.

Finally, good luck!

Ps. Feel free to comment or if you have other tips to share with us!

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08 Oct

Tips for bands on Myspace

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Some items may already be obvious for some bands, but others might find it useful:

Updates appear on your fans and friends of MySpace. Best time of day for
updates (according to Myspace) is between 3-9.

Add a photo now and then, typically it increases the number of requests when bands do that. You can
make slideshows with your photos etc. You can also ask your fans to take pictures
and upload and tag you so you can see more – more visitors.

You can blog regularly on the news and what’s happening in the band, to keep going
interest. You can also write about upcoming gigs, when you release new music and so on.

Spread your videos! Upload videos, fans can in turn add them on their sides so
it spread to all their friends! Do you get people to do that it can of course be a lot of viewers
and visitors. Do not have a music video to post, you can of course, for example, post a
song with pictures instead.

You can do the events of your gigs … I personally think that it works better
on Facebook.

You can post bulletins with the news.

Good luck! Please comment if you have more tips.

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05 Oct

Avenged Sevenfold

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Last year Jimmy “The Rev” Sullivan composed a piece called “Death”. Like a prediction. As if he said goodbye to his family, his band and the rest of the world.

“I hope it’s worth it / Here on the highway, yeah / I know you’ll find your own way-when I’m not with you,” he sings on the demo recording of the song that this has been renamed the “Fiction”.

Just two days later, on December 28, the drummer was found dead in his apartment in Huntington Beach, California. An unfortunate combination of alcohol, painkillers and an enlarged heart had taken his life, just 28 years young.

For obvious reasons, “Nightmare” is therefore, an extremely dark album. Mourning band mate, whose pieces have been recreated blow by blow of Dream Theater’s Mike Portnoy, are drawn into between each riff and harmony, and makes it sometimes really painful to hear. Especially when it has from the beginning was conceived as a concept works around racism, a crazy economy and religion downsides are now in place has turned into an hour-long memory trade show over a lost friend and super talented.

Musically the band’s fifth full length album is also the natural terminus of the innovative process that began with before last album “City of Evil”. It is still possible to trace influences from Metallica (the early ballad thinking has inspired “Buried Alive”), Pantera, Queensryche, and Guns N ‘Roses, but most of all, this is the crowning of a great album trilogy that Avenged Sevenfold could call their own .

And thus it is particularly tragic that “The Rev” never got to experience this triumph.

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03 Oct

Accept – Blood of the Nations

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Blood Of The Nation’s German Accept first studio album in ten years and the first with Mark Tornillo on vocals. Produced by Andy Sneap, among other things produced Megadeth. It is classic heavy metal in the footsteps of Iron Maiden. Perhaps Accept not want to sign it, but what I mean is that the album has several tracks that are more stories, just like Iron Maiden’s great songs.

The German heavy metal band Accept from Solingen was founded in the early 1970s by Udo Dirk Schneider and Michael Wagener. Today is Mark Tornillo singer in the band and the last album Blood of the Nations was released August 20, 2010 in Europe. The Americans will have to wait until mid-September on the album. Accept’ve had a few reunions. 2005 the band did a reunion tour with what can almost be described as its initial set, with Herman Frank as a second guitarist and Stefan Schwarzmann as a drummer.

Track listing

1st Beat the Bastards
2nd Teutonic Terror
3rd The Abyss
4th Blood of the Nations
5th Shades of Death
6th Locked and Loaded
7th Kill the Pain
8th Rollin ‘Thunder
9th Pandemic
10th New World Comin ‘
11th No Shelter
12th Bucketful of Hate

The Abyss is my favorite track, maybe just because it has one of those narrative attitude that Iron Maiden’s best.

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30 Sep

Review: Disturbed – Asylum

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On a few occasions Disturbed abandons its classic form and deliver something that sounds organic rather than rigid machine. It is so that I asked raising an eyebrow and wonder what it really is going on. But the Yankees lured only a little. Basically offers “Asylum” at the very same thing that the group made its trademark and that set the stage for a large fan base around the world.

The Disturbed would surpass previous exploits were of course not many people thought and they make the course not, but “Asylum” is still a qualitative and rather fun album where the first single is called Another Way To Die, but where it is evident that the strongest card is The Animal. There Disturbed combines everything that made them what they are today, and get to a spot on hit. Similarly, the rigid machine riff and feel of the Warrior which I note on the favorites list.

Just like last studio effort, “Indestructible”, which came a few years ago, the “asylum” to deliver a handful of tracks to the live list, but then sidelined behind the first two works that still stands strong. Disturbed, David Draiman of brilliant in the lead, stand for quality and an original sound and there is nothing that has changed in spite of a few seconds of organic sounding.

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28 Sep

Review: Suicidal Tendencies: No Mercy Fool!

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As usual with Suicidal Tendencies, it is messy. This is not really anything new studio album on which the material for the most part consists of remakes of songs from the group “Join the army” album from 1987, and songs by No Mercy, thrash metal band that Mike Clark and Mike Muir had to, and from then mid-1980s.

Consequently, the tip of the “No Mercy Fool! / Suicidal family” in all different directions, it’s sort of a sample of the Los Angeles alternative metal scene and allowed the last 25 years. Thrash metal, hardcore, punk, funk metal, you name it. Suicidal Tendencies stir everything into the pot and it is remarkable that the group still makes it work. Perhaps because the band consists of a collection of brilliant musicians.

Rumor does Moreover, that group has a brand new studio album, with only new songs, at once. But when it is released, yes, there probably know just Clark and Muir.

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28 Sep

Joe Cefalu Free Guitar Lesson

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Free Guitar Lesson from Joe Cefalu of Shred Academy – www.ShredAcademy.com

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