Music stuff
Guitar Grade Trainer
Anybody that knows me will be aware that I always have an innate urge to tinker with things, and to learn whatever I can about whatever takes my interest at the time. You’d also know that I’m involved in IT based stuff, and take guitar grade exams every year for no real reason other than [...]
When I get to the Bottom I go Back to the top of the Slide
Channel 5, in keeping with much of their usual output, are currently showing a ‘feature length documentary’ on Charles Manson, our happy-go-lucky cult leader and murderer-by-proxy extraordinaire. As it always inevitably appears, the mention of The Beatles ‘Helter Skelter’ as the catalyst for his crimes never fails to bemuse me. Apparently, the lyrics to Helter [...]
Annoying People with your Musical Taste – Spotify
I have an admission to make; I’m one of those horrible music snobs, who will peer through you music collection, flicking through the copies of Coldplay, mumbling incoherently and slowly shaking my head in desperation. Of course, everybody thinks that their own music taste is actually perfect, and it’s everybody else who just doesn’t understand [...]
The Great Guitar Wiki Goes Live
I’m fairly certain that at some point, almost everyone has drunkenly posed on the dancefloor with an imaginary guitar clutched in their sweaty hands, mugging as the solo kicks in and hits those screaming high notes and pretending that you’re not making an utter arse of yourself. Eventually, air guitar becomes boring (or becomes competitive), [...]
