The Terrible Tone Challenge By PT What is the most awful guitar sound you have ever produced? Maybe you plugged into an unfamiliar piece of gear. Maybe a child or non-musical loved one randomly twisted the knobs on your amp. Or, maybe you just pushed the Distortion button on your 1980s Peavey Rage. Whatever the case, imagine that terrible tone now. Feel the way it offended your ears. Really try to hear it. Could you reproduce that sound? Or create…
The Guitar RoomBy Pappy I rent a house that’s pretty awful. Horribly energy-inefficient, surrounded by questionable characters (just last week a gentleman died about 50 yards from where I sit right now), run by some of the biggest cash-grabbing opportunists, and featuring a space that doesn’t really function all that well, it’s a unique house in the amount of pain it gives me. But like always I think “how long can we possibly live here?” and every day that period…
Pipes and PT talk NAMM, wedding rings, lost picks and put-down songs. Bliss off! Download here!
The Big Reveal By Pappy US soap opera One Life to Live recently aired its last episode ever. It’s a show that has been on forever (I think, if there was a creation, God must have taken breaks during the days to watch His “stories”) and in a “clever” twist, the finale was wrapped up with fair endings for almost all of the characters and delivered in narrated form by one of the shows villains as a screen play. She…
Blues with Brains ReviewBy PT For many guitarists, learning the pentatonic scale was an early milestone in our guitar playing journeys. They were five little notes that opened the door to a much larger world. I’ll never forget the guitar high I got the first time I grabbed the G-string and bent the heck of out of it while playing over a 12-bar blues progression. Now that was guitar playing! Watch out world; PT is armed with the blues box!…
Brad Paisley’s Diary of a Player ReviewBy Pappy I think I may have a skewed idea of who Brad Paisley is. See, in my mind, Brad Paisley is like us. If he wasn’t out right now selling millions and millions of records, touring to sold-out stadiums, getting fawned over by seas of groupies and delivering the tonal goodness to millions of people, he may be right where I’m at: sitting behind a computer. He seems to be the kind of…
Taylor 616CE Review By Pappy I wrote a while back about the Taylor Find Your Fit event and how my fit was a 616CE. It clicked in a way that I had never experienced before where it just felt and sounded like it was made just for me. Fifth Fret writer PT likened the experience to Harry Potter finding his wand at Olivander’s shop where wand after wand was disastrous, but when the right one was picked, the room lit…
Guitar Ensembles By PT How many drummers do you know? How many bass players? And how many guitarists? I’ll bet the answer to the last question is a significantly higher number than the answer to the previous two. The fact is, there are a lot of guitar players out there and not nearly enough drummers and bassists. Why do I bring up this point? Is it because I want you to pressure your kids into picking up drum sticks or…
Hosted by Clint Searcy, In The Meantime is intended to be an interim show released in between regular Six String Bliss Episodes. Instead of a long conversation between friends about guitars In The Meantime will be short segments that revolve largely around the Six String Bliss community that has been established over the last six years. The pilot episode includes an interview with Eric Sardinas and the very first “This Guitar” segment featuring a key member of the Bliss. The…
AmpliTube Fender by IK Multimedia Review By Pappy Fender is a unique company in that I haven’t met anyone that can say they don’t like SOMETHING about them. They’ve been around for so long and released so many guitars and amplifiers that people have picked up and played and made famous music and inspired fans with, that really, there’s no area that Fender hasn’t touched and made better in the guitar world. And while it would be easy to sit back…
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