Guitar Player Vault is a popular magazine for guitarists. It contains articles, interviews, reviews and lessons of an eclectic collection of artists, genres and products.
Inside you will find a treasure chest of acoustic gold, with loops and samples ranging from emotional, euphoric melodics, high energy strum patterns, head nodding backing grooves to crisp, clean strums of all shapes and sizes, slaps, pops, ambient verbs, tails and experimental build fx. Using a rare “George Lowden” acoustic with its own character sound, the sessions were recorded through dual AKG-451s, entering an Aurora Audio GTQC pre-amp/compressor, through Digidesign 192 converters to an SSL E series 4048. Loops range in length from two to sixteen bars and share the same tempo of 128 bpm, making them usable for all sorts of EDM. Plus, as you would expect, every sound has been pre-mapped in an easy find folder structure, with the root note in of each sound recorded the filename.
Guitar & Bass magazine provides in-depth and essential reading for the serious guitarist, with dozens of guitar tests, playing techniques, an exclusive bass section and in-depth features on guitar heroes past, present and future. Each issue is packed full of reviews of the latest guitars, amps, effects and basses. Guitar & Bass magazine also delivers the informed verdict on home recording equipment and regularly offers tips on buying second hand and vintage gear. When you occasionally put down that guitar, it is also packed full of interviews with the great and good of guitardom!
Electric Strummer Reason Refill is an NN-XT sound library that bridges the gap between keyboards, tube amps, and electric guitar. It uses AW’s patent-pending G-Mapping, which allows the user to literally strum guitar chords on any MIDI keyboard with the included nylon guitar pick so you play killer leads unlike any other guitar sample library! ChromaVibe patches use Chromatic Morphing Harmonics, fueled by over 300 premium, 24-bit samples with up to 21 different alternating samples per note. Each guitar sample starts out as a tube-driven electric guitar note, then using a special guitar technique, pitch-shifts with each alternating note literally evolving into its relative harmonic with real guitar vibrato. You can simultaneously combine chromatic leads in the same patch via Reason’s NN-XT Advanced Sampler.
Jeff’s Lead Guitar edition of the Blues Guitar Survival Guide distills a massive range of blues-centric leads guitar techniques, stylings, harmonic knowledge and creative approaches into a hands-on, accelerated and highly intuitive curriculum. No tedious theory, no boring exercises — you will play your way through the course exploring and learning essential concepts and then immediately applying them in a musical context.
Premier Guitar has the latest in guitar information and equipment along with music interviews, product revies and much more.
The first and second groups have equal opportunity to achieve success as a musician. You don’t need a formal music education to achieve a masterful level of play as long as you have a solid grip on the key principles and techniques that serve as the foundation for whatever style of contemporary guitar you embrace. Robbie Calvo’s Guitar Interactives presents key principles and techniques for rock, pop, blues, R&B and country guitar with an intuitive, hands-on curriculum free of tedious theory and repetitious exercises — you will play your way through the course applying what you learn immediately in an engaging musical context.
