SLADE Legend Jim Lea Studio day 3 and Slade Legend Jim Lea pops in. We had a good chat for about an hour and half about just about everything from music to local pubs. Jim told me he grew up in Bilbrook. It was great to see him. When he walked in the studio his first words were. I know you don’t I we have met before. Kemper The main object of studio day 3 was to set up my Kemper and re-amp...
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I have a new album underway that hopefully will see a release this year. The songs have been written over a period of a few years in my spare time. Rough demos with myself playing all of the instruments and doing drum programming have been recorded onto Logic Pro at home ready to take into a studio. I also released an album that I recorded at home way back in 2017 and then a single in 2019....
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Returning to Face To Face I am now booking face to face lessons again. I have had many calls and E-Mails regarding lessons in my home studio. For the past 2 years during the pandemic I have only given online lessons and lessons in schools. I now believe it is the time to reopen and go back to face to face lessons. I would like to give a big thank you to all of my students who continued to take...
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Since the start of the pandemic I have used something called Soundslice this has been the best learmig tool I have ever seen for guitar. I send my students a link to what we are working on and then the student can see a video of myself playing the piece, the music and tablature. The student can then slow down the piece of music, loop sections that they may want to practise and also make the...
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Paul McCartney Lyrics Book Let me start by saying that reviewing books is not normally something I would do on my website. The fact that this book contains not one note of music in it, or any chords makes it an even more peculiar. The reason I have decided to review this book is, the fact that it is written by one the most successful song writers of our time. I have read many...
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Christmas Gifts For Guitarists Its that time of year again and you could be looking to buy Christmas gifts for guitarists in your life. So I am her to give you some ideas I will also include links to Amazon so you do not have to go hunting around specialist music shops to find them. Tuner First up is a guitar tuner. They will always sound better after using a guitar tuner. They are a great...
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