Entries from February 2009

Featured Artist of the Week: Chris Clermont

February 26th, 2009 · No Comments

Chris Clermont is a singer/songwriter/guitarist/producer and 20+ year veteran of the entertainment industry in Los Angeles, California.
On stage and in the studio, Chris has worked with the widest variety of artists ranging from Kashif, Barry White, Dr Dre, Steve Tyrell, Snoop Dogg, Christian Castro, Kelly Clarkson, Burt Bacharach, Rod Stewart, Lisa Stansfield, Alejandra Guzman, and [...]

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Tags: Guitar Player Zen

How Fast Can you REALLY Shred?

February 23rd, 2009 · 3 Comments

Maryland guitarist, Tobias Hurwitz has invented The Shred-o-Meter, the world’s first musical note speedometer.
It is now possible to measure exactly how fast you can burn up the fretboard!
The Shred-o-Meter is the first and only musical note speedometer in existence. It works on electric guitar or keyboard, and measures NPS (notes per second) in real time on a round meter that [...]

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Tags: Artist Reviews · Great Guitar Websites · Guitar News

So You Want a Guitar Endorsement?

February 20th, 2009 · 10 Comments

You’re looking at Guitar Player Magazine and every other page depicts a guitarist holding a shiny new guitar or standing in front of a new half stack with some killer new pedals.  How often have you wished that you were in that magazine or internet ad?
Maybe you don’t even play that particular guitar or use [...]

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Tags: Music Business

Featured Artist of the Week: Fernwood

February 18th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Wonderfully melodic, expertly layered, masterfully interwoven, lusicious yet rootsy.
-Guitar Player Magazine, describing Fernwood’s album, Almeria
You guys all probably know by now that at Guitar Player Zen, we really like to emphasize finding your own voice, developing into an artist with your own sound and uniqueness, finding creative and subtle ways to set yourself apart from [...]

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Past, Present, Future. Which Two Don’t Belong?

February 10th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Sometimes it’s a struggle to be not who you want to be, not who you used to be, not who you’re going to be, but just being right where you are, who you are.
-Vernon Reid

Often times we get discouraged with our lives because we aren’t where we thought we would be.  We aren’t as rich [...]

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