Saturday, July 5, 2008
How to Look After Your Guitar
It is no big secret that proper care of your guitar will give you a more consistent quality of sound and an extended for the guitar . If you are at alls erious about playing guitar you will want to get some accessories that are essential for the care of the guitar. A guitar player is only as good as the sound and the quality of the guitar that they are playing.
The first item on th elist would be a hard shell case for transporting the guitar. Many people use what they call soft or cloth "gig bag" which zip up and protect the exterior surface of the guitar. A major problem with this type of case is that the tuning nuts on the end of the neck of the guitar get out of tune almost every time you transport it as there is nothing to protect them from being knocked which causes them to turn and get out of tune. Also, if there is any kind of impact while loading and unloading the guitar, this could cause cracks or actual punctures in the body of the guitar. A hard shell case prevents these things from happening as there is space between the neck and body of the guitar and the actual case. The case is designed to take impact while holding the guitar securely on the inside protecting the actual body and neck of the guitar and keeping it in tune. It is a bit more of an investment than a gig bag but in the long run it will help to make your guitar last much longer.
Another item that should be considered for care of the guitar is a guitar stand. You need this to put the guitar on while you are not playing it. Many people lean the guitar against a wall or couch or some other stationary object when they are not playing it. There are a couple of reasons why this is not a good practice. The first would be that if you do not lean the guitar in the correct manner you can very easily warp the neck of the guitar which makes it much more difficult to play. Warping of the neck increases the distance between the strings and the neck which causes you to have to apply more force on the strings while playing. This can make for some very sore and blistered fingers! Also, leaving the guitar laying around makes it much more available for accidents to happen. Having a stand keeps the guitar in the same location when you are done with it and also supports the neck close to the body of the guitar which totally prevents warping of the neck - a small investment solving some big problems.
The last item that should be considered is an actual tuning device for the guitar. You will find that the longer you play the guitar the better you will become at tuning it by just using your ear. But for starting out, you will want to use something that gives you the exact sound and gives the guitar an accurate tune up. There are many devices that you can get that are very easy to use which will give you the exact tuning you need. When your guitar is not tuned correctly this can be very embarrassing - especially if you are singing along with the guitar!
Ian Williamson is the owner of the learn to play guitar comparison site - Play Guitar at http://guitar.you-can-learn.info.
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Tearing Down The House - A Love Affair With 'Not The Nine O'Clock News'
Using the title as a running gag opposing the statutory mid evening news on BBC1, Not The Nine oclock News, favoured as funnier, topical viewing at the same time on BBC2. Chancing their livelihoods on the 17th of October 1979, the first show was broadcast, but not in the politically incorrect style that it was supposed to have first hit our screens. Sworn in by the legendary Basil Fawlty at the end of the final Fawlty Towers, the cast of Not The Nine.. appeared young, arrogant and opinionated, or at least, in very much the same manner as Python was heralded a decade before.
After more line up changes than a heavy metal band, the crew was finally set as Rowan Atkinson, Mel Smith, Pamela Stevenson (who replaced Victoria Wood who had turned the venture down and balancing out an all male cast,) and Griff Rhys Jones (who, in turn, replaced Chris Langham who decided on other pursuits.)
After a shaky will they or wont they start in regards to broadcasting fixtures, the first series seemed to go down a storm. Whilst taking on the tried and tested formula of open house to any comedy writer theme from Python, the world of the written joke/sketch was at last, fair game. This alternative approach to comedy writing of an even more alternative style of television comedy brought great wealth of new, hidden talent to the fore. Names started to creep into view and themselves, became permanent fixtures in the BBC vaults of the written word. Unheard of scribblers were Clive Anderson and Richard Curtis (the latter itching to flex his muscles before embarking on the future years of successful Blackadders.) The years rolled by eclipsing the team in a cocoon of comic genius that lived for three years, four series and two directors. Eventually giving us Billy Connollys wife, Blackadder himself and one of the greatest British comedy double acts since Morecombe and Wise.. Not bad for another low budget gag show?
The art of the alternative comedy era was firstly, one of excitement and anti establishment. Hardly a ground breaking prospect when you think about it in todays terms, yet a show like Not The Nine oclock News, was floodlit in its forward thinking, surrealism in the same light as Python in the Sixties and The Goons further back in the Fifties. Young comics were suddenly given the full park to charge around in. They could think, act and perform in every way or shape possible. Since making social comment a joke had been something only left to the domestic absurdities through situation comedy in Father, Dear Father, or Bless This House, now, all at once, the man in the street or the blind woman crossing the road was open to ventfulls of ridicule. Young talents could create comedy out of every day life, far from the comforting surroundings of behind the front door.
It wasnt just left to write silly songs about The Prince Of Wales or misrepresent serious television interviewers; no, past kings, queens and figures of religious authority were open to offers of fun also. From the same country that only a hundred years before, would have experienced heads literally rolling for such personal poking, suddenly, it was here, for all to laugh at, on mankinds biggest medium, ever.
If the breaking moment had been the first glimpse of David Frost in a suit applauding the failing works of MPs and the class system in his newly built brand of satire, then aspects of Not The Nine, should have been seen as coming from several miles away. Alternative, was the new little black number and it gave good reason for shattering taboos, black comedy and anything observational. Ad libbing or improvisation, as we professionally term it, was enough at one point, to put the look of fear in the Controller of Light Entertainments eyes, so what all of a sudden made this approach to visual and play on words comedy so approving? It was the way forward. Radio was dying a death, and especially since the untimely death of Kenneth Horne, one of British radios long serving and most loved shows; Round The Horne, ceased to exist and Sellers had found Hollywood, it was time to drive on. Move over the wireless - the telly is coming through.
Since shows like Not The Nine, had come exploding onto our goggle boxes without warning, to the humble knotted hankie man, it was still teetering on the brink of mainstream - a word that such young, innovative talents dread to hear. Rebellious to the bone, these young movements of comedy writers ploughed their way into our minds and for this show in particular, the word cult was one that was not just used for strange groups of Americans living in one large house in the middle of nowhere. Kids at school were no rein acting sketches in the playground like their fathers had mimicked voices from The Goons two decades before. Yet the latter was audible, and the other, visual, that same quick fire approach to comedy brought to us speed for gags. It was a sure thing to rely on in those early days of British alternatives; if the audience didnt like it or at least, didnt get the joke, they wouldnt have time to think about it before being plunged into the next sketch. Young writers could test the water quickly to see what worked and what didnt without having the trauma of dying, literally, on stage.
The system had vastly changed since the days of nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more, when Idle donned a tweed suit and sat in a middle class public house swigging an equally middle class pint. Through Not The Nine we are presented with street figures from our daily society. Mods, punks and social outcasts; for example, politicians, were on show for topical humour. The sketches more troublesome, and aggressive in their approach to observational comedy. It wasnt hard to find a sketch knocking the Catholic Church or ethnic minorities - puns that couldnt possibly be broadcast on todays screens for fear of starting a riot or a tube train being blown up. Yet, it appears to us now, that the world must have been a far more relaxed place if we have programmes such as Not The Nine to reflect back on. We were, as a nation, stronger from post war in our daily society. Unlike today, when the sturdy back bone that was once post war Britain, has now crumbled away into the sea like West Pier in Brighton. We cant even laugh at ourselves anymore.
One thing that the team of Not The Nine did successfully conceive was the remarkable parodies of our own lives. Looking back, it is surprising how much the team attacked the church. Not just the Catholic, but the Christian and Anglican also. Parallels were focused on through current adverts from ITV and the advert of the time Made In Wales, was given up for comical moments in sketches titled; Laid In Wales, and Made From Whales, Nothing was safe from the claws of the lesser spotted alternative comedians.
Even if Rowan Atkinson dressed up as a six foot gorilla being accompanied by Professor Mel Smith, on a television interview about evolution wasnt enough to tickle your ribs, it still has to be noted as one of the turning points in British television comedy. Not for just catapulting certain careers into mainstream, but for unleashing the inner humour of us all. The formats were copied to the hilt and still can be seen in the highly successful and more recent, Little Britain, or The Fast Show, and even, A Bit Of Fry And Laurie, from a few years before. Again, not to everyones taste, but when a style of format is still trusted nearly thirty years on, it cant be knocked.
Although Monty Python had been groundbreaking for its day from the old school ties of the young establishment rebels, it was Not The Nine that gave us working class humour. As surreal as Python was from a bunch of highly talented University students, Not The Nine was from a level that the rest of us could tune in to. It appeared to be cold humour, and sometimes, bad taste, but always true to the life that it represented - our lives, and the world we lived in.
Comedy sketch shows had not been formatted before to add some sort of musical anecdote as the final scene and also to over run the credits. Perhaps the one video clips that we remember the most was the song entitled, I Love Truckin, which controversially showed a flat hedgehog on the front of a trucks grill. Such songs recorded on external film, then run along side video tape from inside a studio included songs about the Royal family, the Church again and other political figures, all given double the amount of ridicule only to music. Albums were made to run in the shops at the same time as the programme schedule. Three albums even made the top ten, an unusual achievement.
To the humble young and very impressionable viewer, Not The Nine oclock News, was effortless rude, impertinent and close to the mark. Our parents tutted loudly at it, much the same as their parents before had, at The Beatles. The world was changing and the days had died when the whole family, all three generations could sit and enjoy a comedy show - all inoffensive and above board. Now the ever widening valley in society was growing fast, breaking the generations in two. Kids could snigger at Not The Nine Not like Python, when your dad would join the mimicking with you
Nowadays, humour has taken a turn once more. If were not giggling at Little Britain, we are sinking heavily into the deep waters of satirical panel game shows like QI, and Mock The Week, Suddenly to be up to the moment, topical and simply poke fun at the news or the newspapers is about as creative as we can get.
Gone are the days of imagination in the comedy script writers world. Writers can only sit down now with a bunch of todays new papers and think up jolly good gags, from doing just that. Hardly a qualification for a BAFTA is it? Cleverer with the spoken word rather than with the visual concept is the new in thing.
It would be nice to go back to the days of comedy when we didnt have to our wit each other with quirky anecdotes of plays on words using historical figures. If they are still lost as to what it was all about and what the rise of British Comedy was like before the great fall, then I shall leave you with this
A series of scenes were shot and featured across the four series of Not The Nine in which Rowan Atkinson is filmed, walking down a street, when after a short time, he spots the camera from the other side of the road. He side glances at it in a smug way and smiles. In a moment of being so transfixed on the camera focusing on him, he walks straight into a lamppost, (the clever bit here being that the lamppost doesnt come into view until the last second.)
On the second piece of filming, Atkinson spots the camera again, but this time notices the lamppost in front of him, he points, acknowledges the camera on his intelligent discovery then drops promptly down a man hole..
The whole sequence lasted only a few seconds..
Not The Nine oclock News were;
Mel Smith - (now a highly acclaimed director.)
Griff Rhys Jones - (now gathers huge amounts of money to stop old buildings from being knocked down..)
Pamela Stevenson - (Married to Billy Connolly. She is a Doctor in that stuff about psyches and brains.)
Rowan Atkinson - (After a mile run of Blackadders, whiles away his time by racing vintage cars at Goodwood at the same time campaigning to the government to keep comedians employed and material of any subject open as fair game. Here, here!)
First shown on BB2 between October 1979 and March 1982.
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Michelle is a freelance writer in the South of England and owner of the websites, http://www.generationsounds.co.uk, http://nevermindthebloggers.bravehost.com and their successful sister, Never Mind The Bloggers at http://paperback-writer29.tripod.com She has been writing over the two years, for five major consumer websites across the world and is one of the only two music category advisors for one website in the U.K. Her websites promote young, amateur and professional bands/artists/musicians and their fan clubs whilst also reviewing them for local and world wide promotion. She has also launched the blogs; 'The Ramblings Of An Old Rocker,' 'Bohemian Waffle,' The Rhythm Rock And Blues Machine, The Mopeds Musings, Generation Sound Suite and Rock Cocoon. She is currently working on two shops selling her music styled artwork on cafepress.com.
Guitar Lessons - Which to Choose?
With all the excitement generated by thinking about signing up for guitar lessons it is easy to become bedazzled with the array of guitar lessons advertised online and in the real world. You might feel that you just want to sign up for your guitar lessons, go to sleep and wake up being able to play the guitar. Well, it is not quite as easy as that. Having to decide which guitar lessons suit your needs best takes a little contemplation. Take a good look at what is available to you in the realm of guitar lessons.
First, there is one-on-one lessons. You have a guitar player sitting in front of you trying to find some way to help you become a guitar player. This guitar teacher will charge you by the hour or the term, and give you some material to learn, and maybe some sharing of personal experience mixed with an effort to pass on some of the wisdom he has gained over his years playing music. This guitar teacher is engaged in teaching to put money in his pocket. He wants to teach the largest number of students that he can handle with the least trouble.
This kind of guitar teacher used to be the only kind you could get, but now that guitar lessons can be packaged and transmitted over the internet, things are different. With online lessons you have some guy who knows something about the guitar who wants to get rich by marketing guitar lessons. He has a few thousand bucks at his disposal so he can put together some guitar lessons on video, back it up with some printed tabs and sheet music and sell it on the internet. Your online guitar lesson guy can afford to charge you much less than your local guitar teacher because he is not constrained by the number of students he can fit into his schedule - he can get thousands of people with guitar websites or blogs to sell his lessons for him.
Not only can you get a high quality set of guitar lesson videos but you will get some kind of feedback system where you can ask questions or make suggestions to your teacher and get a reply back by email or video. On top of that when you are browsing online guitar lesson packages, you will be seeing guitar teachers picked from anywhere in the world for their enthusiasm and ability, not for their location.
Okay, now that I have inadvertently given away my prejudice towards online guitar lessons, let us talk about specialization. You can get acoustic guitar lessons which will lean more towards acoustic guitar stuff like strumming patterns, open tunings and muting. Electric guitar lessons teach all that stuff too but with different emphasis plus lessons on note bending, sliding and fret board tapping.
After looking at the variety of guitar lesson choices available to the novice guitarist I hope that I have not left you more confused than ever. My final suggestion is when in doubt about which is the best guitar lesson package just jump in and go for whichever appeals to you and remember that you get a money back guarantee.
Ricky Sharples has been playing guitar his whole life, and is presently engaged in building a blog called Learn How To Play A Guitar For Free. Ricky's blog features free tools, lessons and resources for guitarists of all ages and stages. Ricky updates the blog regularly so if you are interested in learning to play guitar there will be an enormous variety of tip, tools and tutorials for you.
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Video animation is perhaps the most popular form of animation. Video animation started back in the 70s with the increase in the number of VCRs in homes. As VCRs became a common home accessory, the animation industry also grew at a furious pace to cater to the increasing requirements of animated films, especially kids who just could not do without an animated version of their favorite comicstrip hero.
Demand was at its peak and consumers wouldn't think twice before picking up scores of animation videos at their nearest stores. Another reason for the popularity of video animation was the increasing penetration television. With the advent of cable television and exclusive channels dedicated to animation films, their popularity reached unprecedented heights. Animation slowly made its way to mainstream movies. Animation has also been worked into major Hollywood hits to create unimaginable stunt sequences and other sequences, which could not be possibly filmed without animation. You have sequences in videos and films where entire cities are destroyed by volcanoes or humans being invaded by aliens. All these sequences appear spectacular to the naked eye and so realistic that it is hard to believe that these sequences were actually enacted using computer software.
Such has been the tremendous impact of animation software. The newer versions have made animation so much easier to do. Now even common people with a little bit of knowledge about computers and software can make their own animation videos. One can get extensive information about the latest animation software from leading online resources. One can find out about the latest video animation and the latest software on the market from these online resources.
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