Guitar tunings

challenges by expanding. Sawchyn Guitars was founded by Peter Sawchyn in 1970. It was a small private business solely owned and operated by Peter Sawchyn and his wife Kendra Sawchyn. The company deals with two main products: acoustic guitars and mandolins. (Woodwark, Wong, p.2). All the models of guitars and mandolins could be custom ordered, repaired and upgraded per customer’s precise needs. The founder of the company Peter Sawchyn had 40 years’ experience of making custom guitars and their…

Imagine being the creator of the original appealing beats of rock n’ roll! Bo Diddley is believed to be the originator, and father of rock n’ roll. He was born on December 30, 1928 in Macomb, Mississippi, and his birth name was Ellas Otha Bates. His name was changed to Bo Diddley that means “absolutely nothing”, but as you will see, he highly proved that erroneous phrase truly wrong. His mother was 16 year old when she had him, and she already had three other children. His father shortly died…

ACDC was a rock band formed in 1973 during the postmodern era. It was considered one of the best loved bans. The band consists of Angus Young, Brian Johnson, Stevie Young, Chris Slade, Cliff Williams, Bon Scott, Malcolm Young, and Phil Rudd. Although, the first members were Angus and Malcolm young who are brothers. They formed the band when they moved to Australia. The band is known as a hard rock band or blues rock. Their band had the most effect on the music world for many reasons. Their…

lifetime for sparking a lifelong passion inside me. As we drove by, I peered out the window and felt immediately attracted to the structure. My eyes moved upwards to find the sign which read Bluefish Music, then down to the guitars lined up along the walls. “I didn’t know there was a guitar shop here”, I pondered. My mother projected her voice so that it would reach the back seat. “Me either. Do you want to check it out?”. Of course I did. I crossed the threshold of the store and toured it,…

Pigs”. “War Pigs” is heavily influenced by Blues and Heavy Metal. The song’s most prevalent instruments are the bass guitar and drums. Blues and Heavy metal music usually contains those instruments. This song is distinctly heavy metal though because it doesn’t contain a piano, like blues or rock. Blues music usually contained solos for certain instruments. “War Pigs” had bass guitar solos. Similar to how Paul Mccartney sung in Maxwell's Silver Hammer by the Beatles, Ozzy Osbourne sings for a few…

The bass is one of the pioneer string instrument jazz musicians started to use around the 1890’s to provide a low-pitched bass line that would outline the chord sequences of any song. Before jazz, the bass was mostly known for its use in grand orchestras. The double bass arose in Germany during the late 1650’s. It was mostly used in Orchestras for classical music, creating a low pitched base for the violins and violas while harmonizing with the cellos. As time evolved, around 1890, the African…

That’s when the raging guitar kicked in, and Violent New Breed seized the stage. The band automatically set the demeanor for the concert, showing everyone there that they were there to play some rock n roll, by utilizing dialogue from the movie Big Trouble In Little China as a creative lead in to their opening song. Violent new Breed is a fairly new band from Los Angeles California. More importantly it is the dream and the vision of Ex-Escape The Fate bassist and Co-founder Max Green. Green as…

People often walk up to me and ask “What makes you so freekin awesome?” Haha, no they don't. But people do ask how I make music theory seem so simple? I reply; “Because it is.” Let me start with a little story. I grew up in the golden age of guitar players. Eddie Van Halen, Steve Vai, and Alex Lifeson were staples in my CD player, and they played continuously. Like anyone my age, I had the dream of being a rock star with tens-of-thousands of fans screaming their adoration while the…

closely resemble the modern guitar, others look as if they are an entirely different instrument. While no one knows which instrument directly influenced it, there are many theories. One of the most interesting things about the guitar is how many different playing styles there are. The types of guitars we have now took shape sometime in the 19th century and brought with it many different styles of music and variations of the guitar. Four thousand years is how far back guitar can be traced, but…

The article “Literacy behind bars” written by Malcolm X gives a brief history of the self taught education he received in prison. In the article he informs us on how his education before being sentenced to prison did not exceed the past the eighth grade. Malcolm X would spend every waking moment of his day lost in any books that he could get his hands on absorbing each and every word that he learned. He even spent some of his days going through dictionaries copying and memorizing each and every…