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¡Restringe Variables!

Brian Eno habla sobre retringir variables, instrumentos y estilo:

In modern recording one of the biggest problems is that you’re in a world of endless possibilities. So I try to close down possibilities early on. I limit choices. I confine people to a small area of manoeuvre. There’s a reason that guitar players invariably produce more interesting music than synthesizer players: you can go through the options on a guitar in about a minute, after that you have to start making aesthetic and stylistic decisions. This computer can contain a thousand synths, each with a thousand sounds. I try to provide constraints for people.

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El EP de Melvins: "The Bulls & The Bees". Haciendo gala de su monstruosa alineación con 2 baterías.

En el video puedes ver la bellísima guitarra de aluminio Electrical Guitar Company del Major Osbourne:

Y sus consejos para jóvenes rockeros:

Start writing songs as soon as you possibly can. It’s great if you can do guitar gymnastics, but how do you work that into a song. There are all these guitar hero guys on the covers of the guitar magazines every month … They’re amazing, but you can’t think of one single song they ever wrote. I have no interest in that. Whenever you pick up a guitar, think about writing songs. Practice singing, too.

If you need to practice lead guitar that’s what you do sitting in front of the TV. Don’t be a sideman, be the guy who writes the songs. Be the guy who writes the checks, not the guy who cashes them after he does.

I play guitar to play in a band, to write music. And that is all communication, and that is what you’re supposed to do.

Una Cuerda entre Cuerdas

Brad Barr de The Barr Brothers utilizando una cuerda como arco para guitarra.

El Niño y su Guitarra

Billy Corgan habla sobre la Stratocaster:

You can play it in a very individualistic style and yet you don't end up sounding like everybody.
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I think the strat it's the preeminent personality guitar. If you want to be an individualistic player this is the guitar for you.
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I think what's difficult for people in this modern culture with such higain rock applications is understanding how to play a style that expresses their individual personality and yet still keeps them sort of within the sound that's current, which is a very, very higain

Joe Giampaoli: Shielding a Strat Guitar to Eliminate Hum and EMI ...

Joe Giampaoli: Shielding a Strat Guitar to Eliminate Hum and EMI ...: For those of you who have a single coil pickup guitar or have had one such as a Fender Stratocaster or Fender Telecaster, know what a nic...

Guitarra de 2 cuerdas DIY

más fotografías aquí.

El Orchestrion de Pat Metheny

Orchestrion

Instrumento Casero

Jim Coudal describe de la construcción casera de un instrumento de cuerdas.

Cumbiadélica

Tengo que confesar mi falta de sofisticación undergrasa, pero esto me tomó por sorpresa.

Hacía bastante que no visitaba el superblog de mixtapes blogariddims (desde el volúmen 2 de gutterbreakz, lo confieso), y me quedé intrigado con la siguiente descripción:

Blogariddims 37/Maga Bo - Os Cacos
50 minutes of transnational bass - dubstep grime cumbia hip hop ragga kuduro baile funk dub chaabi soca crunk. Full track listing at http://www.magabo.com

¿Cumbia? Aunque me gustó mucho Cumbia Sobre El Rio de Celso Piña y Control Machete y la fusión del Chuntaros Radio Poder del Gran Silencio, suena medio raro "dubstep grime cumbia".
La verdad funciona más o menos, no mezcla tan fácil como ragga-dubstep-d'n'b pero es un estilo no tan tecnificado. Al seguir los links de magabo obtienes joyitas como estas:

Cumbia Clandestina Cumple exactamente lo que promete.

Pibes Chorros - "Andrea" - pista vazia.....?! Con el preset del korg M1 en todo su esplendor. Para mayor credibilidad villera refierase a este sinte como "el mi".



Viendo lo bien que funciona el remix de La Tortura de Shakira en reggetón-d'n'b tal vez sea sólo cuestión de tiempo para que la cumbiadélica explote.

Refacciones para la Guitarra

Lista de distribuidores internacionales de refacciones para guitarras:
Stewart-MacDonald
Warmoth
Allparts
Carvin
Graph Tech Guitar Parts
Hipshot
WD Music Products
Guitar Parts Resource LLC

Cómo se hace una Strat

Por lo visto es bastante difícil.