PICKS! Hold On However You Can
We keep them, we collect them... and they often disappear as quickly as we get them. And let's be honest: most of us feel completely helpless and useless if we lose them right…
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Become the Tapping Sheriff (Part V)
We wrap up with a series of exercises that should have made this technique almost your own by now. I hope it's already part of your solos. Even so, don't miss a detail in this…
Tapping (Part IV)
In this chapter we'll find three tapping exercises that will help us keep defining this technique. If in the previous chapter we told you that you'd already have a good idea of…
Tapping (Chapter III)
In this chapter we begin with three exercises that will make us move and think through the movements of both the left hand and the tapping (right) hand. I'm being specific in this…
Go Tube!
We all agree: there is nothing like a tube-amplified sound: preamps, power amps, microphones, effects... It's hard to believe that an obsolete technology like this gives better…
The Flavor of Seven Strings: Tunings, Pros and Cons
In our day-to-day life as instrumentalists, we often run into difficulties that call for specific, efficient and complete solutions. For example, the typical case of not wanting…
Tapping (Chapter I): A Little History
We begin with a very special technique that I’m sure you’ve heard plenty about, or already know: Tapping. This technique is used by many guitarists, and surely by many of your…
Guitarists, Developing Your Technique IV
We've reached the home stretch of this series of exercises for developing guitarists' technical skills (and for keeping them, too), the main goal of these installments, along with…
Everything You Need to Know About Your Guitar Amp
The basics. As we all know, the electric guitar depends on an amplifier for its sound to be heard, and the amp boosts the signal sent by the pickups. The signal produced by the…
Rhythms of the World: Europe (Final Chapter)
Here we begin the last leg of our journey. A tour of our land, our culture and our people, a tour of the so-called Old Continent. Today, we visit Europe. The variety of rhythms we…
Rhythms of the World (Part Two)
It is a pleasure to be with you again to continue the long and fascinating journey we began together in the previous issue of the magazine. This time, we will travel to the…
Drumheads: Change the Sound of Your Drum Kit
Hello, everyone. First of all, I want to thank the whole ISP team for the trust they've placed in me to carry out this work, and for welcoming me into the large family of great…
Percussion: Origins, Families, Techniques and World Instruments
Idiophones and membranophonesSince ancient times, the most ancestral and primitive instruments were percussion instruments, and more specifically concussion instruments and…
Pedro Barceló: Between Cymbals
Whenever I'm asked to write an article on a specific topic, I'm struck by the thought that I don't know enough to write about it. In this case, telling you about cymbals, models…
The bass drum and the bass drum pedal
It's no secret that these are two of the most important pieces of the drum kit. The bass drum has the lowest, most powerful voice of the entire kit and therefore plays a basic…
The Snare Drum: Which One to Choose and How to Choose It
Probably the most personal instrument in the drum kit Today the drum set has such a clear identity of its own that we sometimes forget it is really many instruments in one. Among…
Yamaha S750 Keyboard: Superior Sound
07/10/2013 Discover the new S750 keyboard, which will help you stand out in the music world by taking you to superior sounds. Creating, recording, performing and arranging are now…
Soundcraft's Si Expression Series Arrives in Spain
06/25/2013 EARPRO, the official Soundcraft distributor in Spain and Portugal, announces the arrival of the first Si Expression consoles. New digital consoles for live sound and…
HARMONY SINGER: The Guitar Pedal for Your Voice
04/23/2013 Have you perfected your guitar sound? Well, now it's time to work on improving your voice! The Harmony Singer is the perfect companion for that. The most essential and…
Marshall SL-5 Slash Signature
02/26/2013 Marshall Amplification is honored to present, together with guitar legend Slash, the launch of the SL-5 Slash Signature 5-watt tube amplifier. As a follow-up to the…