http://www.dpbolvw.net/ol97shqnhp48A8EBCC4658DB7A7 All right so I built a Saga guitar kit and I took pictures along the way.  The Saga is one of the most popular “build your own guitar kits”, the price is right and the quality is decent.  The cheapest component is probably the tuners, the neck is not bad, mine needed a little adjusting [...]

Maybe you know a few chords on guitar and can play some songs.  Now you want to write your own songs though, and you’re not sure how to put chords together that will sound good.  Guitar chord progressions are partly formula, partly art, but there are some rules you can follow that will get a [...]

  This drum video covers:

How the bass, snare and hi hats work.
Using syncopation to drive the beat ahead.
How to “humanize” the beat, so that it doesn’t sound like  a machine.

This video is a companion to the two articles on Making Your Own Drumbeats From Scratch, Part 1 and Part 2.I’m Using Garageband but the techniques could work for any [...]