Roo Interview (by Colin Moriarty) (Comments Off on Roo Interview (by Colin Moriarty))
10/11/15 •
How did your band come to the decision that it was time for a vocalist?
It went gradually. First thought was having some tracks with vocals on RooBand´s instrumental album. Soon I realized that the musical direction of the tracks with vocals was too different from the rest. Splitting the instrumental tracks from those with vocals meant writing a separate album and ultimately forming a new band with a permanent vocalist. RooBand´s Ep Plectrum Spectrum and Reign Over Obscurity´s Time Distortion were recorded simultaneously.. in the same studios.
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Time Distortion – Reign over Obscurity (Comments Off on Time Distortion – Reign over Obscurity)
7/05/15 •
Unfortunately Shredaholic no longer carry out album reviews, however we’ve received one already written from an old friend and Shredaholic, Colin Moriarty:
How to set up a simple home-based recording studio (Comments Off on How to set up a simple home-based recording studio)
4/19/15 •
In this day and age, setting up your very own home based digital recording studio is extremely affordable, as well as easy to do. Not only that, but its a lot of fun! In this article I’m going to be talking about how to get started with a home recording studio that will cost around a $1000 – that’s right, one thousand dollars. Don’t worry – our little studio is going to rock!
Why It’s So Difficult To Get Guitar Students In The Summer (Comments Off on Why It’s So Difficult To Get Guitar Students In The Summer)
7/28/14 •
You probably already know that much less people seek guitar lessons during the summer than in any other time of the year. For the majority of guitar teachers, this translates to a huge challenge to making money from guitar lessons. That said, although there are less people seeking lessons in the summer, there can still […]
How To Increase Your Maximum Guitar Speed – Part 5: Why Common Speed Building Advice Fails (Comments Off on How To Increase Your Maximum Guitar Speed – Part 5: Why Common Speed Building Advice Fails)
7/28/14 •
Many guitarists will never be able to build real speed and become highly technical players because they make one of these mistakes: Mistake 1:They spend all of their guitar practice time on ‘slow’ practice (often because they were told to practice this way by their guitar teacher). They believe that playing perfectly at slow speeds […]
The Only Proven Way To Become A Highly Successful Guitar Teacher (Comments Off on The Only Proven Way To Become A Highly Successful Guitar Teacher)
7/28/14 •
How are climbing to the top of the highest mountain in the world and becoming an incredibly successful guitar teacher alike? Here are 3 critical similarities: 1. Only a very small group of people have achieved either one of these goals 2. The ONLY people who ever successfully made it to the summit of Mt. […]
How To Practice Guitar: Eliminating Mistakes (Comments Off on How To Practice Guitar: Eliminating Mistakes)
6/30/14 •
Regardless of how good of a guitarist you are, you share the same common objective with all other players while practicing: ‘To get it right’. When you are practicing guitar correctly, you will eventually gain the ability to play things exactly as you want. This will make you feel a rush of excitement – which […]
The Top 4 ‘Worst’ Questions To Ask About The Music Industry (Comments Off on The Top 4 ‘Worst’ Questions To Ask About The Music Industry)
6/26/14 •
Until you’ve either been a highly successful pro musician or worked together with a mentor, your understanding of the music industry will likely be based off of assumptions and false ideas. I get tons of e-mails from musicians each week who ask me how to make it in the music industry. Most of the questions […]
4 Things That Guitar Players Fear Most (Comments Off on 4 Things That Guitar Players Fear Most)
6/24/14 •
What do you think is the biggest thing that prevents most guitar players from becoming great? Not having natural ability? No. Having too little practice time? Wrong again. It’s their FEAR (in multiple forms). Endless amounts of guitar players fail to reach their musical goals for years at a time due to the fear in […]
How To Play Guitar Solos Better Than Ever, Part One: Using Vibrato More Creatively (Comments Off on How To Play Guitar Solos Better Than Ever, Part One: Using Vibrato More Creatively)
6/24/14 •
I hear stories all the time from guitar players about how their solos don’t sound as good/expressive as they want. Fact is, there are A LOT of reasons why this can happen, but fortunately there are very specific ways to fix and overcome each of those causes. The following are some of the most common […]
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