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    Recording guitar is rarely ever as easy as sloppily plopping down whatever mic 's handy at the moment in front of the speaker grille and hitting record. Majority would even argue that mic choice and placement only play bit parts in a larger production that involves pre-amps, guitar amps, cable length, A/D D/A converters, tracking through a console clean vis-a-vis applying processing going in, and of course, the choice of guitar itself! Instead of writing a fully comprehensive work (and a very, very

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    On Saturday, April 29, 2017, I attended the Music of the Andes event at the Queens Library in Corona, the group was founded in 2010 with the name Inkarayku, a Quechua word that means “because of the Incas.” The group was led by its founder Andres Jimenez and he informed the audience, prior to the performance, that he created the group to link the past, present and future of Andean arts, through the performance of indigenous music. The group Inkarayku blends the organic power of Quechua folk songs

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    industry was getting started. This was also the start of the Big Band Era (guitaristsource.com). Guitar makers started experimenting to develop a new, louder, guitar. Electrical amplification was developed by the radio industry in the 1920s (howstuffworks.com). In 1931, George Beauchamp and Adolf Rickenbacker would go on to develop an electromagnetic pickup they would later use to create the electric guitar. This first model would go on to be called the “Frying Pan”, because of its resemblance to the

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    around it name. A good school that has a good curriculum in a program should have made a name for itself over the years. keening to the fact, that the name of a school would likely be the first criteria to judging a school and would be the reason why we pick a school from a list of choices. From a humanly point of view we tend to go for a good name first before we ever think of the services we get in return. I would personally choose a school that has made name for itself because, having a good reputation

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    in popularity of guitar bands and the phenomenal success of the Guitar Hero video game franchise has lead to more and more people picking up the guitar recently. Sales of guitars in the UK has hit an all time high in the past three years and as more and more people are starting to play, the guitar has surpassed the piano as the most widely learned instrument in schools. With all these people learning I thought I 'd pass on some tips from my 10 years of experience playing guitar and help point people

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    Fender Brafield History

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    prototypes for guitar he was trying to build. Each prototype had a various specs added or taken from the guitar. In October of the same year, the Fender Stratocaster went into full production and still is in production to this day. The Fender Stratocaster has become an iconic guitar used by famous people like Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Buddy Holly, and Ritchie Valens ("Artist"). The Stratocaster is used in many genres of music such as blues, jazz, rock, and country. Other guitar companies noticed

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    Physics of Electric Guitars Essay

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    Introduction More than any other instrument, the electric guitar has shaped and redefined music in the last century. Although popular culture did not pay much attention to it when it was first introduced in the 1930s, it has since become equated with the very essence of rock and roll music. On an international level, the electric guitar is by far "the most famous instrument to come out of the United States" (howstuffworks.com). Background Inventors have been playing with the idea

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    Mariachi is a lot more than just a band playing; it's a tradition that has been in Mexico for almost two centuries and is enriched with a huge history and deep meaning to for the Mexican culture. Mariachi music started in the nineteen century as a way for the common people of Mexico to find a way to express their ideas and feelings in which their ideas later become lyrics and their feelings become music. Mariachi music as we know it today results from the confluence of several different influences

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    Gibson Guitar Case Study

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    GIBSON GUITARS CASE STUDY CONTENTS 1.Summary 2 2.Plan the Negotiation 2 2.1.Music Store Overview and the existing Relation with Gibson 2 2.2.The Lead Negotiator 3 2.3.Identify and Prioritize objectives 3 3.Defining the negotiation strategy 5 3.1.The ocean approach 7 4. Conclusion 8 5.Bibliography 8   1.SUMMARY The present report intends to briefly describe a negotiation strategy in order to successfully build a global partnership between the world famous guitar manufacture –

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    exploration is around progressive music. I truly adore the guitar playing of Andy James, John Brown of Monuments, Mike Dawes etc. Choosing to play guitar became sensible in my case as the whole vibe of the instrument is so appealing. Social media have been a growing platform and I used it to communicate to as many musicians, people all over the world, now that I am in touch with many great artists. Initially, I started playing the guitar by myself with a little research and later took lessons from

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