My good friend George Sich has a brand new website where he will be showcasing some of his original music. While he is probably more well known as a member of Sydney based band Cut The Cake, this new site will highlight a different side of George, his original stuff. Fans of George’s fingerpicking style [...]
Do you really know the name of the notes on your guitar fretboard? You can learn the notes well and in a short time if you put a little energy into the project! It will really help you as a guitarist if you know the names of the notes on your guitar. Let’s see some [...]
Those songs we hear on the mainstream airwaves – simple, aren’t they? They also follow a very similar formula. This formula is seen by many as the basis of “western music”, and popular music especially makes use of organic “rules”, just as the physical universe has its own mysterious laws. If you’ve been playing guitar [...]
I first met Peter Northcote around about 1982 when I was taking drum lessons at the old “Rock Music” shop in Bankstown. Peter was in the next room teaching guitar. He was always really friendly and stuck in my mind as a great player and a great guy. I recently ran across him at a [...]
1. The very first thing you need to know is that learning to tune your guitar takes time. Some things on guitar can be learned in minutes, some in days, and others in weeks, but tuning will sometimes take even longer, because you have to train your ears. If results come slowly or don’t seem [...]
Sounds like a daunting task already. Firstly, lets get to the bottom of the term ‘professional’. The Macquarie Dictionary gives the definition ‘following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain’. Many out there seem to think of it as how many records you have sold, or how big the concerts are that [...]
Welcome to another Improve Your Music Podcast. In this interview I’m talking with Aussie guitar legend, Kevin Borich. We met up at the Coogee Bay Hotel on a Thursday afternoon for what was more of a “free discussion” than a detailed structured interview. Kevin will be celebrating his 60th birthday soon but shows no signs [...]
I went to a simply awesome gig last night at The Basement in Sydney, featuring some living legends of Australian guitar playing. Organised by the keyboardist from The Bluezone, Parris Macleod, the show featured a wonderful array of Aussie guitar talent, all very ably backed by The Bluezone themselves.The lineup was Izzy Osmanovich, Peter Northcote, [...]
Greetings one and all. In this article I wanted to have a look at a particular guitar solo. Namely the little gem performed by Danny Cedrone for Bill Haley and the comets on the classic, “Rock around the clock”. I had just finished knocking this one up in my studio to use as a backing [...]
Mark Johnson and I were looking through some old vinyl albums last week when I came across one by the band Avion. They were one of my favourite bands from the early 80′s. I saw them quite often and even had the enormous honour of working on the same bill with them one night at [...]