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Evans Magnetic Head Drum Torque Key Review

Product Review from Georges Music: Evans Magnetic Head Drum Torque Key       By Derek PorterGeorges Music       Frustrated with tuning your drums? This torque drum key from Evans makes it a breeze! Simply adjust the ke...

Ukulele Sizes and Types - A Beginner's Primer

  By Ben BlakesleyGeorges Music   So you fancy yourself a ukulele player? Good for you! But just what are all of these different instrument sizes? Am I stuck with the size I started with? Let's run down the different types and sizes of ukul...

What's a Capo, Anyway?

  By Ben BlakesleyGeorges Music     You've seen them on the shelves in the stores. They even peer back at you from the guitar headstock of your friend who's been playing for years. But what IS a capo? What does it do? Who would want on...

Find Time to Be a Better Musician

By Ben Blakesley Georges Music We're all pressed for time. I can't think of one person I know who just has oodles of time to waste away. So how does a musician (especially a budding beginner) cope with the hard reality of "Not Enough Time To Practice...

Bring It! - Guitar Sounds to Go and Getting Self-Contained

By Jon Chappell Last month we talked about getting a clean country sound: bright, tight, and spanky. This time, Ill detail just what can happen to your soundor any soundwhen its set up in isolation and brought out into the real world and offer caveat...

Square One: Recording from the Ground Up

Getting Your Music into the Computer Cheap & Simple By Jon Chappell If someone asked you, What was the simplest and least-expensive to get into computer recording? What would your response be? Would you immediately recommend your favorite DAW? Wo...

Add Percussion to Your Guitar Playing

  By Ben BlakesleyGeorges Music As a frequent solo guitar player, I'm always looking for ways to add more musical elements into my performance. This is a great little technique for doing just that at a very low cost and with virtually no learn...

Ibanez RG350MYE Electric Guitar

Product Review from Georges Music: Ibanez RG350MYE Electric Guitar Ibanez RG350MYE Buy Now! By Eric Lacovara Georges Music The RG350 is one killer axe! It's got a great look with a bright yellow finish, maple neck, and black pickups on a black pic...

Compressors Demystified

By Craig Anderton It's one of the most used, and most misunderstood, signal processors. While people use it to make a recording "punchier," it often ends up dulling the sound instead because the controls aren't set optimally. And it was supposed to g...