Is re-playing or re-recording a song written and performed by someone else an act of love or predation? To prepare for this, look at various lists of best and worst cover songs of all time at timeout.com. Now, let's talk about different types of and purposes for covers, look a little at the history, share favorites, and more.
Ernie Ball Music Man has launched its new Heat Treated (HT) pickup technology along with the HT series of instruments. This all-new patent-pending HT pickup technology outperforms normal spec pickups by providing extra output and excellent touch sensitivity and also display a more powerful bass response and expansion of higher frequency harmonics.
Its cool shape is matched by a shocking greenburst finish over a roasted ash body. The green theme continues in the pearloid blocks and binding on its maple neck and fretboard. Lowe fitted the bass with Hipshot lollipop tuners and custom Lowe by Hipshot hardware, including the bridge, pickup rings, and control plate. Finally, the bass is fitted with a pair of TV Jones Thunder’Blade pickups.
Far from being the cliched instrument you hear upon stepping off any plane to Hawaii, the ukulele has been enjoying a surge in popularity over the past few decades. Artists get their music out to the world through digital platforms, so we know many of the best female ukulele players.
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Thirteen minutes was an awful long time for The Ramones, since they could play an entire album of songs in a quarter of an hour. Thus, when Ramones fan Mark Gilman snuck a Super-8 sound camera into the Grenada Theater in Kansas City in July of 1978 to secretly film the band, he managed to capture an awful lot of The Ramones on film before he was forced to shut it down. The band, as you can see above, was in top form.
Economy picking is a system for increasing picking efficiency by making the most of directional motions between strings. It differs from alternate picking in the way string changes are handled. For example, a down stroke on the third string would be followed by another downstroke to the second string. It’s like a mini-sweep and the most economical way to pick notes on different strings.
When it comes to cabinet emulation, impulse responses (IRs) provide digital snapshots of a real speaker, mic’d up in a real space. Having IRs at the appropriate point in your signal chain enables you to send realistic sound to front-of-house or for recording.
In the years that have passed since his death in 1995, Rory's true stature has become ever more clear. This soft spoken Irishman was far from ordinary, he was a self taught virtuoso who forged a musical revolution in his native land, who shunned the traps of fame and stardom yet became a universally acclaimed international folk hero.
