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The standard Guitar tuning, EADGBE tuning

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The standard Guitar tunings assign the string pitches as E, A, D, G, B, and high E to the open strings of guitars. By convention, the notes are ordered from lowest to highest. These particular pitches are used by the majority of guitarists. why? Standard Guitar tuning made our left hand moves easily to play scales and chords with simple fingering logic. is there the best way of tuning your guitar in standard tuning? yes, and probably there are several ways in tuning your guitar. basically EADGBE tuning notes are from low-to-high note order, WHILE the guitar strings order starts from the thinnest string as first string, so we can see them like this: - 1st String is high E note(e), which its Scientific pitch notation is E4 and its frequency is 329.63 Hz - 2nd String  is  B note (B), which its Scientific pitch notation is B3 and its frequency is 246.94 Hz - 3rd String  is G note (G), which its Scientific pitch notation is G3 and its frequency is 196.00 Hz - 4th Stri...

Have You Ever Been Through The Never?

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Yes, Metallica will take you there. It's 2013 and it is the time for everyone to experience Through the Never with +Metallica  . this super heavy-metal band had made a real existence to its fans throughout the world with this movie. What we will see is actually a thriller concert film, which is new for me. the movie title itself is from the song with the same title  "Through the Never" from Metallica's black album in 1991. the movie's early reviews have been positive. it has Rotten Tomatoes 82% fresh rating, the consensus states: "Imaginatively shot and edited, Metallica Through the Never is an electrifying, immersive concert film, though its fictional sequences are slightly less assured." while Peter Travers of Rolling Stone has his opinion "a full-throttle expression of rock & roll anarchy", and encouraged readers not to understand the plot, but to "live" it. Chris Tilly of IGN and Peter Rugg of The Village Voice stated a ...

Still Halloween and even scarier, the Frankenstrat

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while famous frankentele is Steve Morse 's, the Frankenstrat is Eddie Van Halen's creation. The name itself comes from the combination of Frankenstein name and Stratocaster, a famous Fender guitar model. for your information it is a american national treasure, "Frankenstrat" copy can be found at Washington D.C.'s American History Museum. The Frankenstrat is Van Halen's effort in combining the Fender appearance with classic Gibson guitar tonality. It was Gibson PAF humbucking bridge pickup, Floyd Rose tremolo and chrome hardware installed on ash Stratocaster body, maple neck and fretboard. Eddie painted it several times, and the now famous color combination is red body with white and black stripes. the Frankenstrat what he did is a heavy-modification. The Frankenstrat neck was continually being changed over times. and The first bridge was '58 Fender tremolo then he changed it to Floyd Rose bridges. The placement of the 1971 quarter was a spo...

it's Halloween, and it is Frankentele

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you know what time it is and there's nothing more interesting than a Frankentele. as you knew that telecaster gained incredible fans all over the world because its sound and its simplicity. there are lots of people want to have their own telecaster based on their personal ideas. simply taking telecasters into new genre without disrespecting its history. it's an amazing story, seeing what telecasters had been through. and i really want to start with the famous one, Steve Morse's  Frankenstein telecaster. we know who Frankenstein is as well as we know what a telecaster is. from what i got from musicradar's article about frankentele (you can read the details by following the link), it is really a constant revision and improvement guitar. Stratocaster neck attached into a Fender Telecaster body, installed Gibson Tune-o-matic bridge, a set of Gibson frets and a 12-string tailpiece, also a group of pickups were Steve Morse's ideas on how to build a frankentele. you...