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One of the easiest ways to accomplish this is to replace the pickguard! Fender offers a variety of pickguards with different pickup configurations and materials to help you add a personal touch to your favorite Fender instrument.

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Between 1817 and 1823, Ludwig van Beethoven composed Symphony No.9 in D Minor, Opus 125 "Choral." Nestled in the fourth movement of this classical masterpiece is 'Ode to Joy.' It's a composition of exquisite beauty, which to this day continues to give pleasure to listeners of fine music.

Beethoven finalized this masterwork of symphonic construction in 1824. The Ninth Symphony was the last complete symphony he composed.

The Ode to Joy section of the music originates from a work by Friedrich von Schiller. This German poet, playwright, and historian wrote a poem entitled 'Ode to Happiness' in 1785. Beethoven, inspired by this poem, used it as the basis for Ode to Joy as the finale of his great symphony.

Beethoven's attraction to Schiller's poem began in his more youthful days. When he was twenty-two, he had a desire to put music to the poem. In fact, by 1811, some of the text of Ode to Happiness found its way into the sketches for Beethoven's seventh and eighth symphonies.

Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany in 1770. He was the second-oldest child of Johann van Beethoven, a man of musical background himself. Johann was a court musician and tenor in Bonn's Electoral court. Ludwig followed into music and gave his first piano performance in public at the tender age of eight.

For a short period, Franz Joseph Haydn taught Beethoven. The young Beethoven even had the opportunity to play for Mozart. By 1795 Beethoven's reputation as an excellent pianist was solid. His talents as an improviser were impressive, and he had the gift of composing 'off-the-cuff' with flair.

Beethoven began to notice signs of hearing loss around 1798. In 1801, he wrote a letter to his friend Karl Ameda that stated:

"My greatest faculty, my hearing, is greatly deteriorated."

When his Ninth Symphony premiered on May 7, 1824, he could not hear its performance. This first public performance took place in Vienna's Karntnertorm Theater. Of necessity, Beethoven's deafness required another conductor to direct the symphony orchestra. Beethoven did stand next to this conductor during the performance in order to give tempo directions.

When the performance ended, and the audience erupted with emotion and applause, Beethoven didn't notice. He stood with his back to the audience, facing the orchestra, still regulating tempo. Not until Fraulein Unger, a contralto, had him turn around did Beethoven witness the reception to his masterpiece.

The symphony as a whole is the work of a musical genius who labored over every facet of it. The famous Ode to Joy choral melody involved nose-to-the-grindstone work by Beethoven. It developed over many years draft by draft until he deemed it right. Although written for solo voice and chorus, Beethoven did consider an instrumental only version of the melody.

Through the years, the Ode to Joy has been a source of inspiration to peoples and cultures around the world. During China's Cultural Revolution, it received some distinction as a work that speaks of progressive class struggle.

It was the Ode to Joy that provided musical inspiration in Europe in 1989. That year, after the Berlin Wall came crumbling down, Leonard Bernstein performed the piece in Berlin. It was renamed Ode to Freedom, the word 'freedom' replacing the word 'joy' in the text. This beautiful melody filled the air to celebrate the end of the dividing wall between East and West Germany.

Today the music of Ode to Joy is the official anthem of the European Union. Its German lyrics, however, are not, out of deference to the many languages that make up the Union.

Ode to Joy remains a piece of pure art. It continues to give hope, inspiration, and plain old musical joy to peoples all over the world.

Duane Shinn is the author of the popular DVD home study course on playing piano titled The 52 Week Crash Course In Exciting Piano Playing!

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Youve made the decision to take up the guitar, but arent exactly sure how to use it. This lesson is the perfect place to start your guitar career. Youll learn all about Electric and Acoustic guitars, their parts and the slight differences between the two.

Lets start with the body of the Acoustic and Electric guitar. This is where any electronic hardware (such as in the Electric guitar) is located. The Acoustic guitar, unlike the Electric, has a sound hole. This is where the sound that you hear comes from when you hit a string. A sound hole serves to amplify the vibration (sound) produced by the strings. Without a sound hole, the sound produced by the vibration of strings on the Acoustic guitar would be minimal.

The Electric guitar, on the other hand, does not have a sound hole. As a result, when you hit a string on the Electric, the sound is very low because the vibration isnt amplified like on the Acoustic. If the Electric guitar is plugged into an amplifier, the sound produced will be as loud or as low as you need it.

On the body of the guitar, youll also find the bridge. The bridge is where the strings on the guitar are threaded through. On the Acoustic guitar, there are also bridge pegs in the bridge which hold one end of the string in place. This isnt the case with the Electric, as the strings are secured to the bridge without the use of a peg.

Attached to the bridge is what is known as a tremolo or whammy bar. This mechanical device, found only on Electric guitars, allows a guitarist to reduce tension on all 6 guitar strings at once.

Also located by the bridge are pick-ups, found in Electric guitars, which amplify the vibrations the strings make. These are used in conjunction with an amplifier. Electric guitars may have as many as three pick-ups, with each having a distinct function.

On Electric guitars, there are a set of Control knobs. Each knob represents a control for the guitar. There are two types of knobs: volume knobs and pick-up knobs. You use the volume knobs to control how much noise the guitar makes, while the pick-up knobs are used to control the pick-ups.

Finally, located by the bridge on most stratocaster Electric guitars is a socket. On other styles of Electric guitars, the socket is located on the side of the body. This small hole, typically found only in Electric Guitars, is where you plug in one end of a guitar cable. The other end of the cable is plugged into an amplifier or computer.

Next, there is the neck, a long piece of wood that is attached to the body and Nut of the guitar. On the neck is the fretboard. There are 20-24 pieces of metal on the fretboard, each representing a fret. Each fret represents a musical note. Additionally, there are inlays (either dots or special designs) on the fretboard. Like the pieces of metal on the guitar, these also serve as a guide to notes. The 12th fret on the guitar, for instance, is commonly represented by two dots.

Connected to the neck is the nut which is connected to the Headstock. On the headstock youll find tuning pegs. The other end of a string is slid through a tuning peg. A tuning peg allows you to either increase or decrease the tension of a string, thereby raising or lowering the sound of the guitar. More information on tuning can be found in our tuning article.

And there you have it. Youve covered a lot of things in this lesson, all of it helpful to your guitar studies. You can now move on to the next lessonlearning how to play the guitar.

Gray Rollins is a featured writer for GuitarsLand.com. If you're interested in learning how to play the guitar, then be sure to check out Jamorama for some great lessons.

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Every guitarist knows that the tone of the guitar is determined for the better part by the type of pickups he uses. So what do you do when you're not happy with the tone your guitar produces? Well the answer is pretty simple. Just get yourself a new pair of pickups!

This however is more easily said than done. Delve deeper into the world of guitar pick ups and you will be as confused as a rat in a maze. Humbucker, single coil and acoustic are some of the types of guitar pickups available and for the beginner these might seem like complex jargon. So read on to find simpler tips on how to choose the best guitar pickup for your guitar.

Find a tone that you like

Is there any artists who plays the same kind of guitar you play? Do you admire them for their awesome tone? Well, then it might be easier to get the tone you desire by simply figuring out what pickups they use. There are many websites which will provide you these details.

The three main types of pickups are:

Single Coil: Single coil pickups are sought after for their vintage sound and they have widely noticeable feedback. The Fender Stratocaster is one of the most popular designs that use a single coil pick up. Though fender has launched many pick up designs, none have been as popular as their original design. Also a lot of other Statocaster guitar models of other brands use single coil pickups.

Humbucker: The Humbucker is renowned around the world for its extremely powerful tone. In fact the Humbucker was specially designed to reduce the hum that was caused by single coil pickups. So even if you play blues or heavy crunching rock, you can find a Humbucker that suits your needs. You can also find some humbuckers with a vintage feel to them. The magnets and screws of the humbuckers are what give them the punch in the sound. Seymour Duncan, Dimarzio and EMG are some of the best brands for humbuckers.

Acoustic Guitars: With acoustic guitars you don't have that much of a choice when it comes to pickups. Acoustic pickups are mend to increase the overall sound of the guitar and not improve the tone. Soundhole, soundboard transducers and the unplugged acoustic are the three main types of acoustic guitar pickups.

So do a little bit of research on each type of guitar pickup. You'll find it relatively easy to find the right pickups. There is nothing better than to play your guitar with a tone you love!

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The Fender Stratocaster Handbook: How To Buy, Maintain, Set Up, Troubleshoot, and Modify Your Strat

This hands-on, how-to manual for the Strat takes the mystery out of maintaining and modifying what is really a relatively simple instrument (two boards, some wires, some pickups). Clear text and colorful illustrations take readers through the basics of selecting and buying Strats; maintenance and repairs such as tuning, setting intonation, tremolo alignment, fret repairs, bridge and nut adjustments, electrics troubleshooting; spur-of-the-moment stageside fixes; and some basic performance enhancements like adding “hot rod” Fender and aftermarket pickups, locking-tremolo nuts, and more.

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Having never taken much interest in Hello Kitty (being over 40 and not a parent of young daughters, although details like that don't seem to stop die-hard Hello Kitty fans), I was astounded when I discovered the abundance of products available with the cheery Kitty's face on them.

"Born" in Japan in 1974 to proud parent Sanrio, Hello Kitty is a worldwide phenomenon embraced by girls and women of all ages. She made her first appearance in the US in 1976 and has been increasingly popular ever since. There have been books written about her, art exhibits, and even a Hello Kitty crop circle in England!

It certainly doesn't hurt Saniro's marketing efforts that plenty of celebrities are Hello Kitty fans. Miley Cyrus, Carmen Electra, Christina Aguilera, Kimora Lee Simmons, Lisa Loeb and, surprisingly, Steven Tyler (of Aerosmith) are just a few of many celebrities who have been spotted with Hello Kitty accessories. Kimora Lee Simmons has even designed an entire line of diamond-adorned jewelry and watches for Hello Kitty.

Some of the decidedly more grown-up products include: Car seat covers, rear-view mirrors, shaver sets, vacuum cleaners, champagne glasses, solar power chargers, flash drives, phones, mp3 players, toaster ovens, waffle makers, microwaves, perfume, hair dryers, a pink laptop adorned with Kitty's face in Swarovski crystals, a usb keyboard cleaner, the Hello Kitty Rebecca Minkoff leather bag ($600, but oh so cute!), Hello Kitty bras and thongs in various designs, the Hello Kitty Tarina Tarantino Gothic Lolita Garter (naughty Kitty!) and the Fender Hello Kitty Stratocaster guitar. I have also seen several photos online of Hello Kitty guns and rifles in various designs, but I don't think Sanrio is promoting or selling those...

In 2004, MasterCard featured a Hello Kitty debit card "to teach young girls how to shop and use a debit card". I don't know about you, but I never needed help to figure out how to shop, quite the opposite! It was a cute design though: bright orange with cheery flowers and Kitty herself on the way to the mall.

Kitty, in keeping with the times, recently launched her own online role-playing game (Hello Kitty Online) where, after you customize your character, you enter the Flower Kingdom and the fun begins. In this pastel land, you can plant and harvest crops, cook, pick fruit, own a house (and customize it), and get a pet or two. There are a few monsters to be defeated as well, so it's not all sunshine and lollipops, but once you've dealt with those, you can get back to socializing and selling those crops you harvested earlier.

It's clear that Hello Kitty is not going away anytime soon; in fact she seems to be getting increasingly popular all over the world. I for one am very happy about that. I think we can all use something so very positive, happy, nice and cute as a counterbalance to all the bad news we're faced with on a daily basis.

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Blues band from Key West Florida. The tracks are: 1. Intro by Pat "The Hammer" Lanergan Rock with Me, 2. Why Get Up, 3. Shakey Ground, 4. Tell Me, 5. The Sky Is Cryin", 6. Treat Her Right, 7. Midnight Special, 8. Mar had A Little lamb, 9. Mama Don't Like Me, 10. On Your Way Down, 11. Voodoo Chile.

Buying your first guitar is a big step for anybody, but even more for you if you intend to play seriously. Most youngsters get a guitar in their teens, and play around with it for while until the novelty wears off, and then get involved in something else such as the opposite sex, or sports or whatever.

However, a few, and perhaps you are among them, decide to take playing seriously, and for them their first guitar has more meaning. If you are simply purchasing any old guitar so that you have one, then you don't have to spend a lot of money to get a playable instrument. Most people will likely buy a cheap acoustic guitar unless they have enough money to buy an electric guitar and amplifier. However, the point is that if you are not intending to use your guitar as a serious musical instrument, then you need not pay too much for.

If you do, however, then you should pay as much as you can afford because you tend to get what you pay for with guitars. The better makes definitely sound better, so try to save up as much as possible before parting with your cash. You must also decide what kind of guitar you want to play. Is it going to be electric? If so will it be a bass, or specially strung and designed for rhythm or for lead? What kind of tone do you want: the classic electric guitar sound of a Stratocaster or a loosely stringed Gibson to provide a Jimi Hendrix type of sound?

Most people want to play lead, but you won't know if you are cut out for that until you start playing. Even if you are playing lead or rhythm, what kind of music are you involved in? A blues guitar is strung totally different to a rock guitar, and the pick-ups are also different. It can save you money if you know what type of music you want to play, but if not, then that is probably a refinement you won't have to worry about until you are an accomplished player.

If you prefer an acoustic guitar then there are several types available. There is the traditional Spanish guitar than can be used for Flamenco or classical guitar styles, which is stringed in nylon. You should never use steel strings on a classical guitar because you will damage the bridge and the soundboard. There are other acoustic styles suitable for steel strings. Acoustic guitars are suitable fro classical, folk and country music, and are also good for learning before going for an electric guitar. The problem with electric is that you also need an amplifier, so are limited in where you can practice.

In fact, the answer to most of these questions will be that you don't know! You just want a guitar to learn to play on, and in this case a relatively inexpensive acoustic guitar will do fine. You can get a playable instrument for under $100 that is good enough to learn on. You will mostly be working on chords and fingering at the start until you are reasonably competent at strumming along to a tune, and then you can start thinking about more advanced work such as riffs and picking out tunes.

Before buying your first guitar you might also want to check up on the top guitars within your price range. Many budget makes produce low cost copies of some of the great guitars such as the Squire Stratocaster or one on the many Les Paul clones. However, they will not sound like the originals so make sure that you play whatever you intend to buy before parting with your cash.

Nor should you be a shrinking violet when testing the instrument. It matters less if people laugh at your standard of play than if you buy a lemon totally unsuited to your needs simply because you played so quiet that not only could other customers not hear you but you couldn't hear yourself. Play your guitar at the proper volume so that you can hear its tone, and if you don't like it don't buy it. There is no point in buying a guitar you don't like and is going to put you off playing: you might as well buy nothing at all!

These are the main things to consider before buying your first guitar, and if you take all of that into account you should end up with instrument that can do the job you want it to do, while also being suitable for you to learn on. Keep in mind that there will be plenty of time to seek the perfect guitar once you are able to play it properly, and that for now a functional instrument that sounds OK will do you just fine.

Now that you have one, it's time to learn how to play the guitar! You should consider an online video lessons site, and the best one out there is http://www.jamplaynow.com Check out some of their free lessons and you'll see I'm serious!

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Starlicks Sessions With Les Paul: Instructional Guitar Video

This Les Paul instructional video represents a rare and historical in-depth view of the living legend that inspired the revolutionary development of the recording industry. Les not only invented the electric guitar, he also perfected the technique of multi-track recording and experimented with the use of "echo", what we now refer to as "reverb"

Everybody grows up dreaming about being a rock star, about being able to shred on an electric guitar and impress the masses. Even one of the most popular video games of today, Guitar Hero, is based around people's primal urge to play the guitar. The electric guitar has been the single most defining element of music for the 20th century and it's evolvement from the big band orchestra to the bands we know today.

Who Invented the Electric Guitar?

During the 1920's and 1930's many individuals and companies were experimenting with designs that would enable them to make guitars louder. With bands getting larger, and audiences getting louder, it was important to be able to hear the actual, individual instruments.

In 1924, Lloyd Loar of the Gibson Guitar Company was developing a means (an electric pickup) to pass the vibrations of the strings through a bridge to a magnet and coil, whereupon they were passed as electrical signals to an amplification device. By 1928 "electric guitars" were officially being marketed and sold to the public.

However, the problem with this was that in transferring the vibrations to a medium before being sent to an amplifier, the signal was too weak. So a more direct method had to be developed. The first to do this, and get the patent for it, was George Beauchamp, along with Adolph Rickenbacker and his company.

The guitar was known both as "The Pancake Guitar" and as "The Frying Pan" because of its appearance and because it was played flat in the musician's lap. Available from 1931 on, the guitar was made out of cast aluminum and steel.

Notable Early Achievements Following the Invention of the Electric Guitar

Before this, there were other models being experimented with by many other people. Les Paul, for instance, was working with attaching microphones to guitars. By the 1940s Les Paul would invent something much more successful, which was the solid wood body guitar.

It was designated as "The Log", because it was essentially just one piece of wood attached to a neck with pickups and hardware attached. Gibson later sold a solid body electric guitar endorsed by Les Paul starting in 1950 which could be mass produced.

It was Leo Fender in the late 1940s that developed the first commercially successful, solid body electric guitar. With a single magnetic pickup, it was known as the "Esquire", while the model with a double magnetic pickup was known as the "Telecaster".

In 1953 Fender introduced the mass-producible and world famous Stratocaster guitar. This guitar had several many unique elements, creative design features and improvements over the previous Telecaster model.

These mass-produced Gibson and Fender models are what took hold of a generation and caught on in popularity with many influential musicians of the time. These guitars changed the outlook, style and sound of music forever.

From humble beginnings, the electric guitar transformed an entire genre of art and was able to capture the emotions and feelings of entire generations of people. From guitar legend Jimi Hendrix to the Guitar Hero next door, electric guitars are now entirely synonymous with popular music.

Jay Villaverde is the owner of Vintage Guitar Center. A site dedicated to preserving the beauty and sound of vintage electric guitars You can find great deals on guitars from Gibson, Fender and many more manufacturers. If you love music and vintage guitars, this is a must see site.

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Learning to play guitar when you have a physical disability can be frustrating and may seem down right impossible. The fingers are the most important part of playing the instrument. When I was 5 years old (1967) my sister slammed the door of my parents car. No one told me to pull my finger away. The top of my fret hand index finger was crushed down to the knuckle. The doctors removed the crushed bone, stitched me up with the flap of skin that had the nail still hanging. As a result my index finger is about short and has a claw hook for a nail. To make matters worse I have no feelings on the tip of my finger.

When I was senior in high school my girlfriend bought me a Gibson Les Paul guitar for Christmas (used and in bad shape). I also purchased an acoustic guitar and signed up for classical guitar lessons at my local junior college. I played a number of musical instruments in Junior High and High School band (one time in band camp.) so I thought this would be easy. The school did not have classes in Rock Guitar, there was no internet, and I dont even think there was such a thing as tab back in those days. Imagine trying to learn to play classical guitar with a stubby claw finger with no feeling. Some of the spreads in those chord forms were just impossible. I became depressed and quit playing after two years.

One day my wife dug up that old guitar and asked me what I wanted to do with it. So I took it to a local guitar store and had them look at it, and they gave me $20. So newly rich with my $20 I started looking around at the guitars and picked up a Fender SRV Stratocaster. As I was looking at the guitar the guy running the store quickly showed me how to read guitar tab and play a basic power chord. To my wifes delight (NOT) I came home with about $2,500 in new equipment.

I signed up for guitar lessons, but struggled with my mangled index finger and was about to give up again. Then one day my instructor looked at me and told me the only disability I had was in my head. I was so pissed at that punk, but I kept doing what he told me, exactly the way he told me. Today I dont even worry about what my hands are doing I just play by instinct and ear.

The moral of the story is simple 90% of playing guitar starts by whats going on inside your head. My physical limitations were nothing but an excuse. If I can learn to play anyone can. Playing guitar is the single most satisfying thing I do with my clothes on. Its worth the effort.

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