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September 27, 2018
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How can you sing when your notes aren't round? How do you interpret a diamond-shaped note or a triangle?

This isn't avant-garde notation, but one that dates back a couple of centuries and is still alive today.

This particular hymn-singing tradition in the US comes from the southern states and is named after one of the early collections of these hymns, The Sacred Harp.

Music in The Sacred Harp hymnal as a couple of interesting characteristics: the melody is in the tenor voice and the notation is not the usual round note heads we may be familiar with.

This music is written in what are called 'shape notes,' where the different shapes of the note heads, square, round, triangular and diamond, indicate different pitches.

This makes it possible to read the music two ways. If you can read music, then you just read the notes. If you can't read music, then you read the shapes.
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Stratocasters, Telecasters, semi-hollow 335s-when we imagine an "electric guitar," these ubiquitous body shapes are what immediately come to mind. But what of the body shapes that don't come to mind right away? The outlandish one-offs hand-carved by ambitious luthiers, or the oddball offerings from bigger brands trying to separate themselves in a crowded market? 
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Fender Musical Instruments Corporation announced the expansion of the Squier Contemporary Series with four models. They include all-new Jazz Bass and Jazzmaster models with an all-modern look, feel and aggressive tone at an accessible price. These additions mark the continued growth of modern Squier offerings to support today's aspiring players.
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Previously unreleased 1971 footage of John Lennon and George Harrison recording "How Do You Sleep?" together during the Plastic Ono Band sessions for Lennon's Imagine album has been unveiled. The footage is subtitled "Takes 5 & 6, Raw Studio Mix Out-take," places you in the center of Ascot Sound Studios with John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band with no reverb or echo, no effects, no strings, just live, unvarnished and raw.    
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Confusion abounds in the strings camp, and much of it revolves around the inclusion or exclusion of one simple word: pure. Players seeking vintage specs tend to rave about nickel strings, generally following the time-tested premise "that's what they used in the good-old days." Plenty of products advertised as nickel strings, however, aren't entirely golden-era formulations, using steel wraps plated with nickel, rather than wraps made entirely of nickel...
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Jimi Hendrix used a range of musical gear during his short career, and some of that gear had to wait to be discovered after decades of being somewhere else. When this gear does turn up, often it will travel on to other owners, and then... well, who knows where? Here's a selection of Jimi's gear that comes into that category of a "Slight Return," and all of them I've either found, bought, or verified-and usually then sold through the Rock Stars Guitars. There's always another one...
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It's a difficult task to categorize the playing style of Angeline Saris, especially considering the first handful of tracks on the debut album from her rhythm section duo, Angelex, titled Tight Lips. The songs jump from a Parliament funk-styled opener, to a dub reggae groove, to a salsa burner, followed by a Marcus Miller-esque slap fest, into a smooth jazz ballad. The album goes on to gallivant all over the map stylistically-but it does so authentically, thanks to Saris' years of being an accompanying player to a wide spread of heavy-hitting musicians and her long tenure as a bass educator. 

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