Mike Overly's 12 Tone Music News
Guitar and Bass News from around the World Wide Web . . .
July 6, 2017
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As much as we love a good story about that Eureka! moment, big inventions don't really come out of thin air.

Who deserves credit for inventing the electric guitar? The answer is complicated.

The electric guitar was not an invention but the result of an evolution. And of course, the instrument continued to evolve even after its template was set in the middle of the 20th century.

The electrics we play every day ultimately emerged thanks to the advent of electrified sound, the changing demands of musicians, and marketplace competition.

There were a lot of small innovations along the way to bring us the electric guitar as we currently know it.
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How many times have I heard people complain about their guitar tone. They always mention things like not having the right pickups or needing better guitar strings . Then they get the tone they want and proceed to complain about playability . Their guitar action is too high, their strings are too heavy, frets are too small. These can all be factors in tone and technique, but one key component is highly overlooked... your guitar pick !
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Here is a cool cover of Michael Jackson's "Man in the Mirror" with Andrés Rotmistrovsky on Bass and Angela Watson singing... enJoy!

The Beatles have created some of the most timeless guitar solos in the history of popular music. However, many don't realize that Paul McCartney was the man behind the guitar for more than a few of those riffs. The solo to "Taxman" is one of them.
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Great tone is that magical combination of your finely honed chops and the design and manufacture of your instrument. Playing aside, poor tonal character, or bad tone, is usually caused when pickups introduce intermodulation distortion, something Q-Tuners unique design virtually eliminates. They can't help you with your chops, but when it comes to translating what you play to what is heard, Q-Tuners are the best of the best.
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It's been 34 years since Stevie Ray Vaughan burst out of Texas and onto the world stage. Think you know everything there is to know about the late, great SRV? Focuse your attention on the bare essentials and test your SRV knowledge.
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