Having been inspired by Guitar Man to get serious about my guitar playing again (Next Level Guitar) I was looking around for ear training videos on YouTube to help me to memorize the melodic intervals when I found this: It seems to really be helping. I’ve also ordered the EarMaster Pro software as I’ve read [...]

Last week I wrote a post mentioning how I had been reading Guitar Man by Will Hodgkinson (and how it inspired me to start learning guitar again with Next Level Guitar.) I actually finished the book not long after making that post (this is probably the quickest I’ve read a book in a long time) [...]

I used to play a bit of guitar but I never got very good at it. Recently I’ve been inspired by a book I’ve been reading (Guitar Man) to pick it up again and after coming across a few of their YouTube videos while looking for guitar lessons I’ve decided to buy the 12 DVD [...]

I recently purchased Celemony Melodyne Editor for my home recording studio after having been blown away by what I read it could do. It can do things that not long ago I would have told you were impossible. The really groundbreaking feature is that it’s the first product with what Celemony is calling “DNA” (Direct [...]

I’ve decided to get into this “best of the decade” game myself. These are my top 10 albums of the 2000s in chronological order with one special rule: No more than one album by any band/artist. This is to keep half of my list from being filled with Radiohead albums. Primal Scream – XTRMNTR (2000) [...]

The soundtrack for the new Twilight movie is at #1 this week in it’s first full week of release (it was #2 last week despite being released on a Friday instead of the usual Tuesday.) I must admit that I bought this soundtrack even though I rarely buy movie soundtracks and even though I think [...]

Continuing on with my RateYourMusic.com theme (I do love that website) I’m going to use their rankings as the basis for this ranking of the top 10 albums of ’09 thus far. I am going to add in some filters to get rid of some of the junk that tends gets in the way on [...]

As a follow-up to my post on a comparison of the top 10 albums of all time as rated by people in the US & UK, this is a list of just the top 10 albums released by US artists in the 2000s as ranked by US & UK audiences. As an extra filter I [...]

I find it interesting to see how music fans from the US and from the UK differ in their opinions and the “custom chart” tool at RateYourMusic.com makes it easy to make these kind of comparisons. What I did was sort the top 10 albums of all time first only using the ratings of people [...]

Your Sister’s Canary is a band from Bergen, New Jersey and they play Blues/Pop/Jazz music, at least that’s what it says on their MySpace page. So how come I’m reviewing this band? Unlike some of the really horrid MySpace bands we’ve reviewed on this site before (Hollywood Undead) this one wasn’t found at the top [...]