The Rhodes Piano
Chick Corea, Stevie Wonder, Billy Preston, The Doors’ Ray Manzarek and Herbie Hancock have all taken the Rhodes piano to their hearts
The Rhythm Section: Keeping the beat to your feet
The Rhythm Section: The beat to your feet and bass in its place
DIY music: A fine musical tradition of doing it yourself
Three Chords and the truth: The desire to make music is in some irrepressible. They will suffer poverty, humiliation, and outright rejection just to continue to play, to be able to express.
Session Musicians #1: Crikey, that Hassan can pick a band
Take a look at any pop-stars live performance video and you’ll see on stage other musicians. You won’t necessarily know their name or their face but they look cool and certainly not out-of-place in their situation.
All The Gear – Part Two: The equipment that made Rock ‘n’ Roll
All the gear: The equipment that made Rock’n’Roll – In the previous article we covered, electric guitar and bass amplification, electric guitars and the electric bass. Here we look at keyboards, drums and vocal microphones
All The Gear – Part One: The equipment that made Rock ‘n’ Roll
All the gear: The equipment that made Rock ‘n’ Roll A two-part review of the ‘gear’ that is the sound of Rock ‘n’ Roll Take a look at a photo of the Rolling Stones, the Ramones, The Bob Marley and the Wailers in performance or Oasis, Arctic Monkeys and the Foo Fighters or any big name act and on stage from the 1960s to the modern day and you’ll see a remarkable similarity in the equipment that fills that stage. Behind the suave strutting confidence, just out of the limelight, these instruments, amplifiers, speaker cabinets and all kinds of ‘tricks …
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The Guitar: A potted history of the worlds’ most accessible instrument
In any given town of a fair size pretty much anywhere in the world you’ll find a store either dedicated to or at least proudly displaying guitars. Acoustic, Electric, and Classical guitars. guitars with a pedigree, guitars without. Guitars with digital interfaces, guitars of five hundred-year-old technology. Six strings, a neck and a body in a vast array of manifestations.