The Big Mistake
Do you use guitar effects
pedals? If you do, then you will probably use some kind of guitar pedal
board, but did you know that using the wrong guitar pedal board could be
damaging your pedals and preventing you from performing to your best,
without you even knowing? You see the biggest problem today is that
people spend so much time finding the right effects pedals for their
sound, that they spend little or no time thinking about their guitar
effects board.
The problem is that although guitarists use effects
boards, the majority of them buy the wrong type of case which leads to
problems and more money later on. The biggest problem is that guitarists
are not aware of what they should be looking for in a guitar pedal
board case.
Believe it or not there are loads of different
requirements to consider before you can start looking to buy one. The
trap most people fall into is that they start browsing the internet not
really knowing what they are looking for and then end up buying the
wrong case for their pedals.
The Easy Solution
Unbelievably,
you do not have to spend hours analyzing each effects board available
to you, all you have to do is use this solution before you start looking
so that you have a clear idea of what you are looking for. By asking
your self these questions you will save yourself time, money and avoid
the common mistakes people make. Identify what you need by determining
the size you need, how many effects pedals do you have? Do you need a
soft case or a hard case? what is your budget? Do you need a power
supply?
It amazes me why guitarists will spend hundreds of dollars
on effects pedals and then spend little or no time looking at guitar
pedal boards. It doesn't make sense! If your spending that much, then it
is only common sense that you should protect them to keep them in good
condition, isn't it? By taking these points (size, weight, budget,
accessories etc.) into consideration you will be able save yourself time
hassle and money by avoiding the common mistakes made.
2014/06/18
Teach Yourself Guitar - Secrets for Buying a Good Cheap Acoustic Guitar asda
If you are on a budget and want to teach yourself guitar, you
will be equipped to make a good purchase after reading this article.
There are some differences in acoustic guitars that you will want to take into consideration. There are nylon string and steel stringed guitars. There are also 12 string guitars (the standard guitar has 6 strings). You will probably want to rule out the 12 string when looking for a cheap acoustic guitar. They are a breed unto themselves, not typically inexpensive, and not the best to learn on.
Your basic choice is between nylon and steel stringed guitars. The nylon string has a softer sound and is used predominately in Latin, Flamenco, and some jazz music, though it does show up in other varieties of music as well.
The steel donner deal guitar is the most commonly used acoustic guitar. The sound you are probably used to hearing from a guitar is produced by this guitar. A steel string guitar will be more painful to learn to play at first. The steel strings are just harder on your fingers than the nylon strings. (It will hurt at first learning on either kind of guitar, but it doesn't hurt once you have developed calluses on the tips of your fingers.)
Once you have decided between nylon or steel strings, there are some common things to look at on every guitar. Make sure the neck is straight. Get your eye up close where the neck meets the body and look down the neck to see if it is straight or not. Do this from a few different angles. If the neck is crooked, don't buy the guitar, it will be nothing but trouble.
Next, sit with the guitar on your lap like you are going to play it. If you can't sit down for some reason, hold the guitar like you would play it, the point is to look down and see how close the strings are to the neck, so you're looking at the side of the neck.
Starting at the head, where the tuning pegs are, the strings should be very close to the neck, and the gap will widen a little as you follow the neck to where it connects with the body. This gap should not widen too much and it should not continue to grow. The gap should be about 3-4mm, 5mm at the most, where the neck meets the body.
Push down on the strings. You are testing the "action" of the guitar. A guitar with higher action will be harder to play, harder to push down the strings and get a good sound. A guitar with lower action will be easier to play. Action is something that can be adjusted, but not if the guitar itself is too poor of quality.
The last, but most important thing to check on the guitar is the tuning. Everything mentioned so far has an impact on the tuning, but there are other not so obvious things that can create tuning problems, and a guitar that won't tune or can't stay in tune is not the guitar for you.
A guitar can be tuned with a tuner, but when you play a chord sound out of tune. If this happens, it indicates a problem with the guitar and you should not consider buying it. You will want to know how to tune a guitar by ear and play at least one chord, or know someone who can, to be able to accurately check the tuning of the guitar you are considering for purchase. Most times the person selling the guitar should be able to tune it and know some chords. You might have them play it so you can hear it. But sometimes the seller does not play guitar.
One time I was helping a friend get a guitar for her child. She had found an ad on Craigslist for a guitar and asked me to go with her to look at it. The guy selling the guitar was selling several other guitars as well, and he didn't know how to play. He was importing cheap, poorly made guitars and selling them cheap on Craigslist.
He would use a tuner to make sure he could tune the guitars, but as soon as I picked up one of them I knew immediately it would never be a good guitar for my friends kid. The first chord I played sounded awful, so I started to tune the guitar. It proved to be a challenge, so the guy gave me the tuner he was using. I "tuned" the guitar with the tuner, but as soon as I played a chord it still sounded awful. This indicated the guitar was fatally flawed.
The moral is, the better educated you are before you make your purchase, the more enabled you are to make the best purchase you can on an inexpensive guitar.
If you can't learn to tune and play a chord before you buy a guitar, have someone you know can play go with you. If you can't do either of these, then when you're looking at the guitar ask the seller to tune it and play it for you. If the seller cannot do this, and you cannot do it or have a friend do it, then don't buy that guitar. Move on to the next seller. Trust me, you would rather not buy in that case, and wait if you have to, so that you can be sure you're getting the best cheap acoustic guitar you can.
There are some differences in acoustic guitars that you will want to take into consideration. There are nylon string and steel stringed guitars. There are also 12 string guitars (the standard guitar has 6 strings). You will probably want to rule out the 12 string when looking for a cheap acoustic guitar. They are a breed unto themselves, not typically inexpensive, and not the best to learn on.
Your basic choice is between nylon and steel stringed guitars. The nylon string has a softer sound and is used predominately in Latin, Flamenco, and some jazz music, though it does show up in other varieties of music as well.
The steel donner deal guitar is the most commonly used acoustic guitar. The sound you are probably used to hearing from a guitar is produced by this guitar. A steel string guitar will be more painful to learn to play at first. The steel strings are just harder on your fingers than the nylon strings. (It will hurt at first learning on either kind of guitar, but it doesn't hurt once you have developed calluses on the tips of your fingers.)
Once you have decided between nylon or steel strings, there are some common things to look at on every guitar. Make sure the neck is straight. Get your eye up close where the neck meets the body and look down the neck to see if it is straight or not. Do this from a few different angles. If the neck is crooked, don't buy the guitar, it will be nothing but trouble.
Next, sit with the guitar on your lap like you are going to play it. If you can't sit down for some reason, hold the guitar like you would play it, the point is to look down and see how close the strings are to the neck, so you're looking at the side of the neck.
Starting at the head, where the tuning pegs are, the strings should be very close to the neck, and the gap will widen a little as you follow the neck to where it connects with the body. This gap should not widen too much and it should not continue to grow. The gap should be about 3-4mm, 5mm at the most, where the neck meets the body.
Push down on the strings. You are testing the "action" of the guitar. A guitar with higher action will be harder to play, harder to push down the strings and get a good sound. A guitar with lower action will be easier to play. Action is something that can be adjusted, but not if the guitar itself is too poor of quality.
The last, but most important thing to check on the guitar is the tuning. Everything mentioned so far has an impact on the tuning, but there are other not so obvious things that can create tuning problems, and a guitar that won't tune or can't stay in tune is not the guitar for you.
A guitar can be tuned with a tuner, but when you play a chord sound out of tune. If this happens, it indicates a problem with the guitar and you should not consider buying it. You will want to know how to tune a guitar by ear and play at least one chord, or know someone who can, to be able to accurately check the tuning of the guitar you are considering for purchase. Most times the person selling the guitar should be able to tune it and know some chords. You might have them play it so you can hear it. But sometimes the seller does not play guitar.
One time I was helping a friend get a guitar for her child. She had found an ad on Craigslist for a guitar and asked me to go with her to look at it. The guy selling the guitar was selling several other guitars as well, and he didn't know how to play. He was importing cheap, poorly made guitars and selling them cheap on Craigslist.
He would use a tuner to make sure he could tune the guitars, but as soon as I picked up one of them I knew immediately it would never be a good guitar for my friends kid. The first chord I played sounded awful, so I started to tune the guitar. It proved to be a challenge, so the guy gave me the tuner he was using. I "tuned" the guitar with the tuner, but as soon as I played a chord it still sounded awful. This indicated the guitar was fatally flawed.
The moral is, the better educated you are before you make your purchase, the more enabled you are to make the best purchase you can on an inexpensive guitar.
If you can't learn to tune and play a chord before you buy a guitar, have someone you know can play go with you. If you can't do either of these, then when you're looking at the guitar ask the seller to tune it and play it for you. If the seller cannot do this, and you cannot do it or have a friend do it, then don't buy that guitar. Move on to the next seller. Trust me, you would rather not buy in that case, and wait if you have to, so that you can be sure you're getting the best cheap acoustic guitar you can.
2014/06/16
Guitar Effects Pedals - Compression
Look at any professional guitarist's assortment of foot pedals --
you'll find pedals for Overdrive, Fuzz, Flangers, Chorus, Distortion,
to name a few. One you'll almost always find ... and one you might not
expect ... is a compression pedal. Why? What does a compression pedal
do?
In it's simplest form, a compression "squeezes" a guitar's tone. The analog tone from a guitar consists of a great many frequencies -- a compression pedal addresses and squeezes the range to even out the tone. This makes the resulting tone more consistent and level.
Compression pedals even off the loud parts and beef up the quiet parts -- this not only levels out the tone, but also yields greater sustain.
Of course, this does come at a cost -- by squeezing the tone, you diminish the dynamic range. However, the payoff is a fatter tone and a more consistent level.
So why are there so many compression pedals if this all they do? Well, for the same reason there's a variety of other effects pedals -- they sound different from brand to brand!
The electronic components inside the pedal, the different gain and tweeking settings available, the particular "style" of desired tone (bright sparkly country? Or phat Southern rock?) the treatment of different frequencies -- all lend to the taste of the resulting tone. Like anything else, you've really got to sit down and try a multitude of compression pedals to find the right one for your playing.
Compression effects work well on electric guitars -- but can also help acoustic and bass players as well by providing a more consistent tone. While you may not use a compression pedal as your only effect, it's very common for it to be the first pedal in the chain.
In it's simplest form, a compression "squeezes" a guitar's tone. The analog tone from a guitar consists of a great many frequencies -- a compression pedal addresses and squeezes the range to even out the tone. This makes the resulting tone more consistent and level.
Compression pedals even off the loud parts and beef up the quiet parts -- this not only levels out the tone, but also yields greater sustain.
Of course, this does come at a cost -- by squeezing the tone, you diminish the dynamic range. However, the payoff is a fatter tone and a more consistent level.
So why are there so many compression pedals if this all they do? Well, for the same reason there's a variety of other effects pedals -- they sound different from brand to brand!
The electronic components inside the pedal, the different gain and tweeking settings available, the particular "style" of desired tone (bright sparkly country? Or phat Southern rock?) the treatment of different frequencies -- all lend to the taste of the resulting tone. Like anything else, you've really got to sit down and try a multitude of compression pedals to find the right one for your playing.
Compression effects work well on electric guitars -- but can also help acoustic and bass players as well by providing a more consistent tone. While you may not use a compression pedal as your only effect, it's very common for it to be the first pedal in the chain.
2014/06/04
Distortions are False Beliefs Programmed Every Day by Self and Those Around Us
Distortions are False Beliefs Programmed every Day by Self and Those
Around Us which Causes Feelings of Useless, Self-pity, Selfishness,
Insecurity, False Moral Standards, and Social Withdrawal.
Using affirmations on a daily basis will program truths about yourself. By changing your false beliefs, you can live a more positive lifestlye and have happiness in your life. Say the affirmations to yourself many times throughout the day. Take a look at the following affirmations and put them into practice immediately.
“I accept full responsibility for the shape my life has taken.”
“I need not fear all of my own truth, powers, fantasies, wishes, thoughts, and dreams.”
“I acknowlge that reality is not obligated to me; it remains unaffected by my wishes or rights.”
“I give without demanding appreciation though I may feel I deserve it.”
“Choices and preceptions in my life are flexable, not rigid or absolute.”
“I am happy as I do what I love and love what is loving."
We can be very hard on ourselves in our negative self thoughts and actions. Greater self-appreciation can be ours when daily affirmations are programmed into our thoughts and actions.
For additional affirmations, view online at [http://www.epfamily.org/affirmations.html]
SUGGESTIONS FOR SELF-MOTIVATION & SELF AFFIRMATIONS
1). Low sad mood-
All depressions have a daily cycle. Generally, the worst period is morning. If so, try to do things you enjoy or routine tasks that will keep you active during the low period. Remember that depression eventually goes away by itself even if untreated. our mood will change and it will change even quickly with help you are receiving. Take note what events or feelings seem to trigger the low period and seek someone to talk them through. Follow the natural healing laws of nature (www.meetministry.org).
2). Sleep difficulty-
Never remain in bed once you are awake. Going over and over troubles in your mind deepens depression. Start an activity immediately. Also ask your spouce or a friend to company with you. If safe take a walk outside in nature once in mornings and again in evenings.
3). Low energy-
Re-examine your chores. Save some important ones for yourself but assign some to others in the household. Drink your recommended amount of water (8-10 cups) a day.
4). Neglect of personal appearance-
Get dressed immediately on arising from bed. Keep your clothes and personal hygiene clean and refreshing. Buy some new or different clothes, and get involved in physical exercise. These activities all help you feel better about yourself.
5). Feelings of pessimism and self-depreciation-
Remind yourself of things you have aceived in the past. List these and your abilites and assets. A depressed person tends to see everything through dark glasses. These lists of positives will help. Also ask your friends what they think of you. It is bound to be better than you think.
6). Loss of appetite/ desire to loose weight-
If you have a lose of appetite and consider yourself as a good weight for your frame, then pamper yourself with the focus you enjoy. If you are wanting to loose weight, follow the healing laws of nature and make a goal each day.
7). Social withdrawal-
Make an effort to be with people even if you do not feel like it. Join in some group activities like our Prayer Families. You will fell better the next day. Be open and honest with others, inviting them to know you better and you know them better. Fear is usually the reason people withdrawal socially, so find out what that fear is, then ask yourself if it is worth the separation you are experiencing. You can be content by setting up self-boundaries that will determine how "close" another will be with you.
Using affirmations on a daily basis will program truths about yourself. By changing your false beliefs, you can live a more positive lifestlye and have happiness in your life. Say the affirmations to yourself many times throughout the day. Take a look at the following affirmations and put them into practice immediately.
“I accept full responsibility for the shape my life has taken.”
“I need not fear all of my own truth, powers, fantasies, wishes, thoughts, and dreams.”
“I acknowlge that reality is not obligated to me; it remains unaffected by my wishes or rights.”
“I give without demanding appreciation though I may feel I deserve it.”
“Choices and preceptions in my life are flexable, not rigid or absolute.”
“I am happy as I do what I love and love what is loving."
We can be very hard on ourselves in our negative self thoughts and actions. Greater self-appreciation can be ours when daily affirmations are programmed into our thoughts and actions.
For additional affirmations, view online at [http://www.epfamily.org/affirmations.html]
SUGGESTIONS FOR SELF-MOTIVATION & SELF AFFIRMATIONS
1). Low sad mood-
All depressions have a daily cycle. Generally, the worst period is morning. If so, try to do things you enjoy or routine tasks that will keep you active during the low period. Remember that depression eventually goes away by itself even if untreated. our mood will change and it will change even quickly with help you are receiving. Take note what events or feelings seem to trigger the low period and seek someone to talk them through. Follow the natural healing laws of nature (www.meetministry.org).
2). Sleep difficulty-
Never remain in bed once you are awake. Going over and over troubles in your mind deepens depression. Start an activity immediately. Also ask your spouce or a friend to company with you. If safe take a walk outside in nature once in mornings and again in evenings.
3). Low energy-
Re-examine your chores. Save some important ones for yourself but assign some to others in the household. Drink your recommended amount of water (8-10 cups) a day.
4). Neglect of personal appearance-
Get dressed immediately on arising from bed. Keep your clothes and personal hygiene clean and refreshing. Buy some new or different clothes, and get involved in physical exercise. These activities all help you feel better about yourself.
5). Feelings of pessimism and self-depreciation-
Remind yourself of things you have aceived in the past. List these and your abilites and assets. A depressed person tends to see everything through dark glasses. These lists of positives will help. Also ask your friends what they think of you. It is bound to be better than you think.
6). Loss of appetite/ desire to loose weight-
If you have a lose of appetite and consider yourself as a good weight for your frame, then pamper yourself with the focus you enjoy. If you are wanting to loose weight, follow the healing laws of nature and make a goal each day.
7). Social withdrawal-
Make an effort to be with people even if you do not feel like it. Join in some group activities like our Prayer Families. You will fell better the next day. Be open and honest with others, inviting them to know you better and you know them better. Fear is usually the reason people withdrawal socially, so find out what that fear is, then ask yourself if it is worth the separation you are experiencing. You can be content by setting up self-boundaries that will determine how "close" another will be with you.
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