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How Gibson became an icon of acoustic guitar – 100 years on from its first flat-top

Gibson’s Mat Koehler charts 100 years of flat-tops – and how the J-45, SJ-200, Dove and Hummingbird took over the world ...
Under the Radar

The Decemberists Share New Song “All I Want Is You”

The Decemberists are releasing a new album, As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again, on June 14 via YABB Records and Thirty Tigers. Now they have shared the album’s third single, “All I Want Is You.” ...

Charlie Starr on the joys of fingerpicking in Csus2 – the open tuning that doesn’t have a bad chord anywhere

Credit: Future Last month, I delved into the world of fingerpicking in the Piedmont/Mississippi John Hurt/Rev. Gary ...

Blues and Jazz Chord Masterclass! Learn the sweetest chords from world-renowned Gypsy-jazz guitarist Tim Lerch

Discover a wealth of dominant 7th, diminished and chromatically colored chords to bring variety and sophistication to your ...
Indiatimes

Psychology says people who never take their dishes to the kitchen and leave for others aren't always lazy, they may be repeating invisible patterns they learned years ago

Every family seems to have one person who does this. They finish eating. They stand up. And they leave the plate exactly where it is. Someone else eventually picks it up. At first, it may seem like a ...
Aimee Nolte Music on MSN

Guitar picking for piano - step 2: Expanding the technique

If you've seen my first video on adapting guitar fingerpicking techniques to the piano, this is your next step. In this lesson, we build on those basics and apply them to real song patterns and more ...
IEEE

EMG-Based Continuous Estimation of Index Finger Movements With Varying Interjoint Coordination Patterns by Modeling Musculoskeletal Dynamics

Abstract: Surface electromyography (EMG) is widely used for predicting kinematics of intended finger movements in applications including teleoperation. Generally, ‘black-box’ models with high ...