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Friday, June 17, 2011

How To Make Tunes Of Your Own

By Jack Wogan


At times words don't do enough, no matter if the ones who love you are the ones whom you are speaking to, and no matter if you are right. Well, with the right guitar and the right guitar effects pedal you can make this world a better place, first for you and your close friends and for several hours a week, but you will never need more than your garage to start working wonders.

Some started out with manufacturing their own instrument. This is the Red Magic recipe: an 18-th century fireplace supplied the wood parts while a dismantled old motorbike provided most of the others. A knitting needle and some minor parts from a bike were also added and the result was carefully lacquered... when the electric musical instruments were still somewhat unusual, and valuable items were hard to find, a British youngster aged 16 who used to trade his classical piano training for playing a banjolele (the combination between a ukulele and a banjo with an individual sound) wanted a guitar to suit his own idea of what it needed to sound like, and persuaded his father to help him build it. Seldom playing anything else at the peak of his career, musician Brian May modestly called the result Fireplace or The Old Lady, but it is widely known as the Red Special now.

Others have started out guided mainly by a personal vision, stronger than the other ones. This kind of voodoo has proven to be strong. In a still segregated America, the mother of a 15 years old poor black boy has died leaving him very upset, and from petty 5$ received from an acquaintance the boy buys a cheap acoustic guitar. A scholarship and several schools are the next step, and the amazement of his instructors at young Jimi Hendrix's totally unorthodox perception regarding composition, which was soon to turn him into the world's greatest electric guitar player.

You may know one model name or another as being Santana's favorite guitar, and there's affair chance for you being right, because this iconic performer has moved constantly from one model and manufacturer to the next. His admirers followed his example. Custom made models, those ones as well as many others are largely affordable now. The market is extended and well-balanced. As manufacturers constantly strive to comply with the highly individual needs of accomplished performers, new experimental instruments are being launched meanwhile, with all the electric gear surrounding a contemporary guitar player to increase his possibilities for modulating his sound evolving at the same fast pace.

In conclusion, if you want to make your own music and you favor electric sounds, low-end instruments made in Germany, or Canada are on hand. Bass guitars from well-known manufacturers also come at affordable prices. More sophisticated second hand instruments are also low-priced and thus in reach of beginners. All it takes next is confidence, determination and an excellent guitar effects pedal.




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