"Vidya Intarweb Playlist | Video Game Music is a fantastic video game playlist maintained by Cats777 over at Aersia.net."
This is great for coding or anything you want background music for. Afterall, video game music is supposed to be in the background anyway.
On Facebook, I made a post about a 1980s Paul Gilbert Guitar Player article back in Feb. 2020 about alternative picking.
Essentially, this is the exercise he posted in an old Guitar Player magazine and the example is what you see below. It wasn't until the long, pandemic, stay-at-home that …
I created this document because I could not find a good car comparison worksheet. I found many calculated MPG, TCO, and other metrics. Those did not resonate with what we were searching for.
So, I created a spreadsheet and modified it as time went along. Usually, it was a result …
Well, it's 2021. I'm testing to see if this old thing still works. I should have been blogging AND vlogging during all of 2020 but I did not.
So, I thought I would dust this thing off and see if all the parts still work. So far, so good.
I …
A question came up about hybrid picking and if there were any lessons about how to do it. Below is an example of how I use hybrid picking in certain situations. This is from the song Eugene's Trickbag and is the opening A minor arpeggio.
As much as I tried …
Much of what we understand and feel about people comes from watching them act in relation to others and the entaglements they create as the action proceeds.
R.V. Cassill, The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, Fifth Edition, 1995
The same can be said about people in their personal lives …
His face was sweaty and dirty. The sun shone on his face. The day was hot.
Nick turned his head carefully and lookded at Rinaldi. "Senta Rinaldi. Senta. You and me we've mad a separate peace." Rinaldi lay still in the sun breathing with difficulty. "Not patriots." Nick turned his …
I am working on a set of reference tracks and software tools for my music production hobby. You use reference tracks to compare your music against other tracks of similar style. Alternatively, you might just like the way the horns or guitar sound in a particular song. Therefore, you will …
So today, I stumbled upon LensCrafters' virtual model. What their software does is takes several images of your face using your camera. It then does some tech magic and wraps the sunglasses on your image.
I am sure this is not much different from the puppy dog nose or clown …
Here is another effects pedal that does some amazing things. It takes your electric guitar and makes it sound like a full-bodied acoustic.
With this box you can really make quick switches between that classic big acoustic to whatever amp sound you are using then back again.
"Standard" is good …
These stomp boxes have come along way from the last time I remember them.
This box has a lot of options in it. First you can just play notes in the "Choir" mode to add something to your input (Guitar, keyboard, whatever).
Next are the vocoder modes "Vintage" (like what …
Listen to this voicemail I received today.
I hate these voice messages. I don't usually use the word 'hate' that often. But these people take it to a whole new level. This is the fourth or fifth voice message I received today.
They try to be all scary first by …
This is not my music. I found some cool music by a composer by the name of Mike Mullen. Ever since my first visit to E.P.C.O.T. I have always found a liking toward that dreamy, floating music they would just put in their queues.
If you …
"Would you be willing to follow the instructions of a dead person?" the system asked him.
I think I recall hearing about this book from Leo Laporte. I probably put the book on my Christmas wishlist. I do recall my wife asking if she could read it. (Side Note: a …