"How to be an Econorocker" is here!
The book is finished and you can check it out right now, see my books page. So what's in the book? Well, it's not just a rehashing of the stuff I've written on this blog before. I've seen a lot of...
View Article"Roller" now available for free MP3 download
New song that I released today. You can download the MP3 right here.
View ArticleIf you want to make money as a musician, you'd better learn to downsize
If you hadn't noticed, the music industry has been in a tailspin since 1999. I'm not kidding. 56% drop in sales from 1999 to 2009. And 2009 was 4 years ago, so the sales drop might be as much as 65%....
View ArticleSquier II Stratocaster returns
After fixing the trem and tuners, the II is back in action. :-)
View Article"Distance" song plus notes about Dunlop guitar strings
I decided to give Dunlop guitar strings a try (specifically, model DEN0942); they certainly have a different "character" about them, which is difficult to describe in words... ...so I wrote a quick...
View ArticleHow to add MP3 album art, and notes on easy band promo
If you're a regular reader of my blog, you've noticed I've started adding free MP3s to my mp3 page (I'll eventually have every song there as a free download.) Before I started doing this, I wanted to...
View ArticleEverything you ever wanted to know about electric guitar strings
Above is a quick hard rock demo I put together just to see how well the Dunlop strings I bought recently would do with that style of music. Said honestly, they did really well. Does choice of string...
View Article38
I turned 38 this week, and I had to give some thought about what I wanted to say about that. Here's something I find interesting. The audience that follows me on the internet is on two extreme ends of...
View Articleminor update
My EconoRocker book is now available on Scribd. The link is on the books page.
View ArticleThe joke's on us (The metal scene)
Today is 1 April, which in America and several other parts of the world is April Fools' Day. It is guaranteed that you will find several if not many fake stories running around the internet today in...
View ArticleWhat happens when your cheap guitar feels better than "the real thing?"
It's my belief that every guitar player at some point has to make the mistake of buying an expensive electric guitar before he learns not to waste his money. It doesn't matter how many times I tell...
View Articlesaving the streetpilot i3 and other stuff about obsolete technology
The first GPS nav device I ever bought was a Garmin StreetPilot i3. I paid $400 for the thing back in 2005. Yes, really. I also still own it and recently "rebuilt" the thing. For my birthday this year...
View ArticleIs there such as thing as "The Squier Sound?"
A really interesting phenomenon happens with guys and girls who buy Squier guitars. It's most likely true your first Stratocaster or Telecaster was in fact a Squier brand guitar. Later on as you got a...
View Articlenew design and stuff about old computer crap
For my regular readers, you'll notice that the site now looks a bit different. Not too much different, but I added in a sidebar to the left mainly because I wanted to move my Twitter updates there and...
View ArticleGetting a metal sound out of a Stratocaster the easy way
I've posted videos about this before, but it was time to get a written version down of how to do this. There have been many who have wondered how I get a Strat single-coil pickup to "sound metal" when...
View Article1984
Just finished reading Nineteen Eighty-Four and watching all three movies of the same name. No, I didn't do all four things (as in read the book and watched all 3 movies) all at once. The order in which...
View ArticleHow to avoid getting bored when practicing guitar
Boredom is something that happens to every guitar player at some point. You've played everything you can possibly think of, become disinterested, put the guitar down and go do something else. This is...
View Articleinternet stuff i used to do in the late 2000s, plus a video
I got a comment recently about the stuff I used to do back in the late 2000s when I was exclusively doing tech videos and live-streaming, and thought I'd write a few words about that. The late 2000s is...
View ArticleThe difference between 250K and 500K pots in electric guitars
I got a request to write this one. With volume and tone controls on your guitar, the two most-used potentiometer types are 250K and 500K. While there are 1,000K pots out there, the vast majority of...
View ArticleDunlop DEN0942 strings demo [video]
A quick video I did after installing some new Dunlop DEN0942 strings on my Squier Strat.
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