Last week I posted about a Pentatonic Tapping Lick Lesson from YouTube based on the E Minor Pentatonic scale. It’s a fun lick to learn and is good for practicing skipping strings with tapping. This week I found a video lesson on YouTube with a really cool sweep picking and tapping lick. The video is […]
Badass Pentatonic Tapping Lick Lesson with Video and Tab
YouTube can come in handy when you want to learn new guitar techniques and note pattern combinations to experiment with to get different sounds. The videos are nice because they give a visual representation to work with instead of just having to rely on an audio file. Plus you get a chance to see the […]
Free Pro Tools Control App For iPad (Video)
Avid is coming out with a new app that allows you to control Pro Tools using an iPad. The app is called Pro Tools Control. It’s a free app for iOS, and is expected to be released soon, probably in the next month or two. As the name suggests, the app lets you control and […]
Impulse Response Guide and Free Download Packs
Impulse Responses are the number one thing that can help you find the perfect guitar tone when using amp simulator plugins to record and play guitar through a computer. Digital amp sims have come a long way in recent years, but with some styles of music, such as heavy metal, it can be hard to […]
How to Adjust Velocity Settings on Alesis V Series MIDI Keyboards
The latest lineup of MIDI keyboard controllers from Alesis, the V Series and VI Series, come with velocity sensitive keys and pads. The sensitivity and velocity of the drum pads and keyboard keys is fully adjustable using Alesis’s V Editor software. The software is free to download from the Alesis website under the docs & […]
Ableton Live 9 MIDI Setup and Recording Tutorials (Videos)
Ableton Live 9 comes with a bunch of advanced MIDI features that helps make recording and editing virtual instruments and sounds easy. With the MIDI editor you can invert and reverse notes, quantize, create legato phrases, quickly duplicate loops, speed up or slow down individual or selected MIDI notes, and more. MIDI Controller Setup The […]
How to Claim Your Free Pro Tools 12 Upgrade
Avid released Pro Tools 12 on March 23rd, and everyone who recently purchased or upgraded to Pro Tools 11 is entitled to get Pro Tools 12 for free, but I noticed that Avid does little to advertise this fact. I was expecting an amnesty email to show up or at least a public release, but […]
EZdrummer 2 Tutorial: How to Use Search & Tap 2 Find (Video)
EZdrummer 2 is one of the best virtual instruments for creating professional, realistic-sounding drum beats. It has everything you need to edit, mix, and write custom drum tracks, and it includes an extensive library of pre-loaded templates suitable for for just about any drumming style, especially with all the various expansion packs. With the release […]