by Allan | Oct 23, 2022 | Music Marketing, Nalla Draw
In this article, I’ll show you how I achieved my first 1,000 streams on Spotify. It took a while, but in the end, the strategy that I thought would work, worked well. Early last year I released a track called ‘Vating’ on Spotify under my artist name...
by Allan | Aug 15, 2021 | Line 6, Line 6 Helix
Johnnathan Cordy has a bunch of great Line 6 Helix and POD Go resources on his YouTube channel and is definitely one of the people I enjoy watching to learn how to get more out of my Helix Native software. The Matchless amp is one that I’ve struggled with in...
by Allan | Aug 15, 2021 | Line 6, Line 6 Helix
Jason Sadites is back with another “Dialling In” video, this time on the topic of the Helix tuner. Yes, the tuner! The Helix tuner is a topic of much discussion on various forums and has been a major source of complaints over the years. Personally, I find...
by Allan | Jul 13, 2020 | Blues Guitar Lessons, Electric Guitar Lessons, Guitar Lessons
Over the past couple of months, Eric Johnson has been posting a series of video mini-lessons to his Facebook and YouTube channels. I’ve been an Eric Johnson fan since his Tones album, bought his Hot Lix instructional video back in the day, bought another...
by Allan | Jul 5, 2015 | Guitar Lessons
I’ve been listening to Like I’m Gonna Lose You by Meghan Trainor (feat. John Legend) and I quite like this song. It’s really easy to play with the same chord progression over both the verse and chorus. There are a couple of extra bass notes used to...
by Allan | Mar 9, 2015 | Acoustic Guitar, Live Performance
I’ve been reading Ed Sheeran’s book ‘A Visual Journey’. It’s a great book and well worth a read to learn more about the person behind the music. The story goes that he flew to LA and a friend had set up this gig at a poetry night called...
by Allan | Mar 8, 2015 | Electric Guitar, Live Performance
Great clip showing Ed Sheeran and John Mayer playing together on The Late, Late Show. I’m not sure why Mayer picked the pink Jackson to play (he also used it in the Grammy’s) and whether he’s consciously trying to look like Buddy Holly. Whatever the...
by Allan | Dec 17, 2014 | Electric Guitar, Guitar, Guitars, Live Performance, Rig Rundowns
Premiere Guitar just published this video on their YouTube channel where Adrian Belew talks through his guitar rig. He uses a Parker Fly, with a Line 6 Variax controller inside it to give the Variax guitar tones. He also has a Sustainer pickup to give infinite...
by Allan | Nov 18, 2014 | Electric Guitar Lessons, Guitar Lessons, Rock Guitar Lessons
The folks over at Truefire released a new course from Andy Timmons called Electric Expression. I started going over the lessons last night and thought I’d write this review so you can all learn more about what he teaches. Firstly, I’m a big Andy Timmons...
by Allan | Sep 19, 2014 | Recording
I just discovered producer Warren Huart’s YouTube channel. He’s a producer / guitarist who has worked with a bunch of big names and he’s now set up a YouTube channel and is sharing his wisdom. This is a great video on how Warren records acoustic...