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The fingerboard radius is the measure of thearc of the fingerboard across its width. You don’t have to look too closely at most electric guitar and bass fingerboards to see that few if any of them are truly flat; most of them have a slight convex curvature across their width. The fing...
It's 2018. We are a little older and wiser. We are still pissed off and the world is still on the brink of disaster and punk rock still matters,. Modern Terror has crafted a classic album with their first full length studio release Hardcore '18. With a mix of tear your face off ci...
Note length information Writing Tab Getting Started To Tab or not to tab Things to do when writing TABs Things to avoid What is TAB TAB or tablature is a method of writing down music played on guitar or bass. Instead of using symbols like in standard musical notation, it uses ordinary ASC...
Ampeater Music is a website devoted to bridging the gap between unsigned (or just plain underexposed) artists and music lovers everywhere. Every day we feature a different artist on what we call The Ampeater Review. Each fea
Released as Two Wheels Good in the United States due to a threat of legal action from Steve McQueen’s estate, Prefab Sprout’s second studio album is an undeniably smart and sophisticated example of great British indie songwriting. Backed by a gang of clean, reverberant guitars, and held alo...
George Harrison’s wry cynicism is our first taste of Revolver, as his stinging “Taxman” kicks off side one with its overdriven guitars and bitter lyrics telling the true-life, nouveau riche tale of losing 90% of your income to Britain’s harsh tax laws. No one wants to hold anyone’...
This is God’s work. And in revival these elements are heightened and intensified. There is new life and power. The ongoing impact I see as renewal. There are ‘old things with new life’. I haven’t lived through revivals on the scale of the one I describe in the booklet, but I ...
The smell of weed wafting into my bedroom late at night when they had friends over, falling asleep to the sounds of guitars. Ran into the Grey Ceiling as a new grad, could not relate to the Boomer - Yuppie thing, ended up not getting married until the mid 90s, first home purchase ...
With four dead and a mess at Altamont, Rolling Stone tries to get to the bottom of what really happened at the festival.