Sam's Page

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Scary good tone, tasty chops. The total package. And I didn't know a Tele could sound like that. According to his comments, he's using Keystone pickups.

And if you dug that, head over to his website and download his all his songs for free. No joke.

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Ian Crichton, I dub thee the "Unknown Shredder". Ian plays guitar for the band Saga (and is the original guy, unlike the quitter singer, quitter keyboard players, and quitter drummers). I remember exactly one song by them: "On The Loose". I heard it yes… Continue

Late last year, Gibson unveiled the much-hyped Robot Guitar (official Gibson page). The Robot Guitar not only tunes itself (to several different tunings no less), it also practically strings itself AND corrects intonation problems. I remember thinking thi… Continue

My favorite scale to noodle around in is G major. It tastes as good in G as it does in E minor(G's natural minor). Plus it's right in the middle of the fretboard. When played in the Ionian-ish mode pictured below, I like its symmetric-ness. ((I suppose with those last three notes, it's not technically Ionian since I'm not stopping on G, but who cares?)) The fret intervals are (Low E) 2-2, (A) 2-2, (D) 1-2, (G) 1-2, (B) 2-1, (E) 2-1. ()Nice and clean

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