Mike Overly's 12 Tone Music News
The Latest Guitar, Bass and Ukulele News
from around the World Wide Web ~ March 17, 2022
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If you search for David Bowie on Spotify, a familiar icon pops up: the man himself, eyes closed, made up with a deathly-looking pallor and a red-and-blue lighting bolt across his face. This is the photo on the front of Bowie’s sixth album, 1973’s Aladdin Sane. Perhaps more iconic than the music inside, it stands as the Mona Lisa of album covers. It was also, at the time of production, the most costly album cover of all time.
GUITAR NEWS

The Player Plus Meteora HH sports an alder body with a Modern C-shaped maple neck adorned with a 12" radius maple or pau ferro fingerboard with rolled edges and 22 medium jumbo frets. It's powered by the aforementioned Fireball pickups to provide all the thick, punchy power you're looking for from a pair of humbuckers. Aside from the usual control set of a master volume knob, two tone knobs and a three-way pickup switch – the Meteora HH also features a handy S-1 switch on the volume knob to activate coil-splitting, and give players some more sparkly single-coil Fender tones.
IN THE BASSMENT
 
This bass has a 4-coil pickup custom built by Humless Pickups. Using two stereo Y cables, it can run separate, individual string signals through any desired effects chains or use a standard mono cable that turns the bass signal back to a traditional, operational setting. The wiring was quite a challenge as well, we wanted to go as simple as possible with a passive setup and just one switch to change the operational mode using a common quad volume pot and tone pot, this functionality gives pure satisfaction!
UKULELE UNIVERSE

Fact: Your soprano ukulele will require frequent tuning. That really goes for any kind of ukulele you have, mind you. So, learning to tune your instrument is foundational to all other activities. Whether you’re just starting to figure out how to tune your uke or looking for different processes and methods you can use, you’re in the right place at the right time. So, let’s get these basics covered. Here’s how to tune a soprano ukulele!
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Guitar Fretboard Facts, written by Grammy-Nominated Music Educator Mike Overly, is a powerful collection of 38 essential lessons designed to connect and continue with the thoughts and ideas presented in Guitar EncycloMedia.

"With Mike's powerful point of view and unique insights you will learn to play with clarity and avoid confusion. I highly recommend this book so that you do not miss out on many important topics. - Chris Bereznay, Music Gear Review.

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Bass Fretboard Facts, written by Grammy-Nominated Music Educator Mike Overly, is a powerful collection of 38 essential lessons designed to connect and continue with the thoughts and ideas presented in Bass EncycloMedia.

"It is written with cool analysis and prophetic vision and has given me a most profound revelation! I am certain that Mike's teachings will have a significant impact on any player who studies them. It is an important contribution to those who think and play bass." - Marshall "Rock" Jones, The Ohio Players

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WATCH THIS

Guitar Sonata No. 3 by Cuban composer Leo Brouwer. Sonata No.3 is dedicated to the Greek guitarist Costas Cotsiolis, and first published in 2012. Brilliant performance by Krivokapić with intense virtuosity in terms of rapid flourishes with control over the sound and motifs. Many beautiful moments of spaciousness, meditative pacing, and playful puzzle-work
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As creative musicians, we’re always on the hunt for fresh and unique sounds. One way to introduce new musical ideas and reinvigorate our playing is to look at incorporating less familiar sounds. To help us expand our playing, let's focus on 10 different scale sounds, with a range of five, seven and eight-note options coming from all over the world. These will allow you to add sophistication, edge and beauty to your playing and expand your knowledge of harmony along with your melodic phrasing, fluency and compositional options along the way.
GREAT GEAR

Electro-Harmonix has confirmed that the effects brand’s Russian-made vacuum tubes are among the 200 products subjected to recent export bans by Russia. The components have been banned from export in retaliation to the sanctions imposed on Russia by the international community, following its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. As EHX owns and operates a factory in Russia which manufactures tube brands – including Tung-Sol, Electro-Harmonix, EH Gold, Genalex Gold Lion, Mullard, Svetlana and Sovtek – it says supplies to its tube customers will be halted for the foreseeable future. The move will likely lead to shortages across the guitar industry.
ARTIST AWARENESS

Richard Davis spent 23 years in New York City establishing himself as one of the world’s premier bass players. Downbeat International Critics Poll named him Best Bassist from 1967-74. He has recorded a dozen albums as a leader and 3000 recordings and jingles as a sideman. His performance/recording credits include Sarah Vaughan, Eric Dolphy, Don Sebesky, Oliver Nelson, Bruce Springsteen, Van Morrison, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Miles Davis, Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Band, Dexter Gordon, Ahmad Jamal and a host of many other notables.
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