by Coco10Empire on April 23, 2013
Richie Havens, who became forever linked to Woodstock because of his legendary and inspirational three hour performance that initiated the concert while other performers made their way through travel obstacles, passed away yesterday, Monday, April 22, 2013, in Jersey City, NJ. When he ran out of rehearsed songs to perform, Mr. Havens improvised and spontaneously crafted “Freedom” which soon became an anthem for both the anti-war movement and the free-spirit expressed by the Woodstock Festival.
Richie Havens
To read about and listen to Mr. Havens please visit the following sites:
NPR
AP
New York Times
To find out more about Mr. Havens, including his unique guitar tunings and fingerings, please visit RichieHavens.com
We here at FindaGuitarTeacher.com will surely and sorely miss his music, his spirit, and his humanity.
by Coco10Empire on March 30, 2013
Legendary music producer Phil Ramone passed away today, Saturday, March 30, 2013 at the age of 79. We’ve truly lost an unparalleled force of musical innovation and creativity, whose input spanned every aspect of music making and production.
Phil Ramone
In addition to owning A & R Recording Studios in New York City, Mr. Ramone worked with a Who’s Who roster of musical luminaries, including Clay Aiken, Burt Bacharach, The Band, Bono, Laura Branigan, Ray Charles, Karen Carpenter, Chicago, Peter Cincotti, Natalie Cole, Bob Dylan, Sheena Easton, Melissa Errico, Gloria Estefan, Aretha Franklin, Billy Joel, Elton John, Quincy Jones, Patricia Kaas, B. B. King, Julian Lennon, Shelby Lynne, Madonna, Barry Manilow, Richard Marx, Paul McCartney, George Michael, Liza Minnelli, Anne Murray, Olivia Newton-John, Sinéad O’Connor, Fito Páez, Luciano Pavarotti, Peter Paul and Mary, Andre Previn, Diane Schuur, Carly Simon, Paul Simon, Frank Sinatra, Rod Stewart, James Taylor, The Guess Who, Dionne Warwick and Stevie Wonder.
Read more about Mr. Ramone here:
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USA Today
Los Angeles Times
by Coco10Empire on March 5, 2013
by Coco10Empire on January 15, 2013
Let this be the year you pick up that dusty guitar in the corner, fulfill your goal to play guitar, and experience the infinite pleasure that comes with learning to play the songs you’ve enjoyed listening to. There’s nothing quite like the feel of hearing a song you’ve been working on come together in a recognizable way that resembles the song that inspired you, and there is no better way of learning to play guitar than with a guitar teacher who can show you how to actually play guitar the way you want to. While books, tabs, dvd’s, and online guitar lessons all have their place, there is no denying that playing music is a communal experience and that playing with another person, who is capable of guiding you with his or her acquired experience, is the best and most enjoyable way of learning.
So why not check out FindAGuitarTeacher.com to find a guitar teacher near you who is can guide you to being the guitar player you want to be?
by Coco10Empire on January 15, 2013
Still free and easy-to-use, FindAGuitarTeacher.com continues to be the preeminent resource for aspiring guitarists looking for a guitar teacher in their local area. As we near the 2600 teacher mark, the FindAGuitarTeacher Team is gratified by the number of new teacher signups who continue to make use of the unprecedented opportunity to promote their guitar teaching to the thousands of visitors to our site, and we are equally excited by plans on the horizon to make our site more and more useful to both elements of the guitar lesson experience. Stay tuned for more!
by Coco10Empire on November 6, 2012
Tape Op Magazine has supplied the team at FindaGuitarTeacher.com with many hours of informative and entertaining reading, so we are more than happy to pass along this press release that we recently received from them.
Dear Tape Op Readers,
As you know many of our family, friends and colleagues on the East Coast have been hit hard by Hurricane Sandy last week.
Led by Ken Bogdanowicz of Sound Toys, several of our advertisers have joined together to help raise money for Storm Relief. Please take a minute or two to read this entire email and consider taking advantage of some of these offers and auctions and pitching in to help the relief effort.
Thanks,
Larry, John and the Tape Op crew
1. Sound Toys to Donate 100% of their online sales on Monday November 25.
On Monday November 5th 2012, SoundToys will donate one hundred percent of its online sales to help the storm victims of NY and NJ. As former residents of New Jersey, and with a great number of friends in both New York and New Jersey, as well as the large music community affected, SoundToys feels a deep responsibility to assist as much as possible. All proceeds on this day will be donated to Team Rubicon, a rapid relief organization already working in both areas to aid the needy. The organization employs skilled veterans to assist in all areas of relief and aid.
“It’s hard to watch the people of New Jersey and New York, the communities we grew up in, the seaside towns we played in, and the city we love, suffer so badly. It’s a tiny thing, one day. We feel that it’s the least we can do – to give one day of our work to help with this monumental relief effort.” said Ken Bogdanowicz, CEO of SoundToys.
Tragedies like these require everyone to come together to help, so we ask our customers and friends to help those in need. Simply place your order for any SoundToys product or upgrade on the SoundToys webpage on Monday Nov 5th, and the combined total of sales for the entire day will be donated to help the victims of this tragic storm.
And if you don’t happen to need any more plug-ins, please consider making a direct donation to Team Rubicon here: http://teamrubiconusa.org/donate/
2. Dangerous Music has donated a sizeable amount directly to Team Rubicon.
3. Avenson Audio is donating 100% of the proceeds of the auction of SmallDI and IsoDI on ebay.
Avenson SmallDI eBay
Avenson IsoDI ebay
4. Universal Audio is donating 100% of the proceeds of the auction of an Apollo QUAD interface on ebay.
Apollo QUAD Audio Interface ebay
5. Tape Op is donating 100% of the proceeds of the auction from a grab bag of stuff from our office.
This stuff includes a complete archive of in-print magazines (71) issues, a Tape Op Vol 2 book, Phill Brown’s Are We Still Rolling book, an unreleased Tape Op Bunny Poster and a JZ pop filter:
Tape Op Auction ebay
by Coco10Empire on October 27, 2012
Why keep putting off something you’ve always wanted to do and will never not want to do – playing the guitar? FindaGuitarTeacher.com makes it possible to find your perfect guitar teacher without the hassle and bother usually associated with finding a guitar teacher. Check us out today, find a guitar teacher giving guitar lessons near you, and be playing guitar by the Holidays.
by Coco10Empire on October 18, 2012
FindaGuitarTeacher.com helps guitar students find out about guitar teachers in their local area. Free for both guitar students and guitar teachers, it’s a great way to see detailed profile information about guitar teachers located near you. It’s fun to click on a region and look at the biographical sketches of so many guitar teachers and find out how they approach teaching guitar.
by Coco10Empire on October 18, 2012
FindaGuitarTeacher.com helps guitar students find out about guitar teachers in their local area. Free for both guitar students and guitar teachers, it’s a great way to see detailed profile information about guitar teachers located near you. It’s fun to click on a region and look at the biographical sketches of so many guitar teachers and find out how they approach teaching guitar.
by Coco10Empire on October 17, 2012
FindaGuitarTeacher.com is the web’s premier resource for connecting guitar students with guitar teachers. Prospective students can search over 2500 detailed FindaGuitarTeacher Teacher Profiles to find out about a teacher’s music styles, guitar techniques, contact info, specific locations, guitar influences and professional links, as well as to view a teacher’s video.
Free for student and teacher alike, Findaguitarteacher.com makes it easier than ever before for potential guitar students (or their family) to find out about guitar teachers in their local area before deciding which teachers they would like to contact. FindaGuitarTeacher.com consistently returns top or near-the-top first page results for search terms including, but not limited to: “guitar teacher”, “guitar teachers”, “guitar teacher los angeles”, “guitar teacher chicago”, “guitar teacher new york”,”finger style guitar teacher”, “blues guitar teacher” and more.
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