Entries from January 2009

Using Effects to Develop Your Own Sound

January 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment

One of GuitarPlayerZen’s main themes is that of developing your own style.  After all, who wants to be a guitar clone?   To truly maximize your guitar potential, you must look within to find your own sound.  One way of doing so is by translating the sounds you hear in your head into your guitar playing. [...]

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Tags: Developing Your Own Guitar Style · Guitar Lessons · Guitar Player Zen

Eric Brewer 2008 Guitar Player Superstar Performance

January 19th, 2009 · 7 Comments

Would performing in front of Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, and George Lynch make you nervous? Oh, and they are writing notes as you play, waiting for you to finish and critique you. Yeah that might make your stomach a little uneasy and your palms sweat. But our friend and a top new guitar player, Eric [...]

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Tags: Featured Artist of the Week · Guitar News · Guitar Video

Instant Exposure to Your Music in Under 140 Characters

January 13th, 2009 · 16 Comments

Are you using Twitter yet?   Do you even know what Twitter is?   Sounds pretty damn ridiculous if you ask me, and why would any guitar player want to sign up for such a thing?  After all, we are guitar players and are too cool for such tech widgets. Well my fellow guitar playing buddies, it’s [...]

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Tags: Guitar Player Zen · Music Business · Uncategorized

Featured Guitar Player: Michael Lewis

January 9th, 2009 · No Comments

With the Launch of our Studio Guitar Secrets: Making Guitar Your Career, we will be featuring and re-featuring the amazing guitar talent that we interviewed.  One of the top session players we spoke with, Michael Lewis, has been around for a while, laying down some wicked guitar parts on albums, jingles, and sound libraries.  Once [...]

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Tags: Developing Your Own Guitar Style · Featured Artist of the Week · Guitar News · Guitar Player Zen · Music Business

Studio Guitar Secrets: Making Guitar Your Career

January 2nd, 2009 · 4 Comments

GuitarPlayerZen.com is proud to announce the launch of it’s long awaited audio interview series, Studio Guitar Secrets: Making Guitar your Career. Take a minute to read the story behind the launch, and then at the end, go buy it!  Or Else!  The actual launch site decided to crash a few days ago (Damn technical bugs [...]

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Tags: Developing Your Own Guitar Style · Featured Artist of the Week · Great Guitar Websites · Guitar News · Guitar Player Zen · Music Business