Two or Four Guitar Lessons at Rick's Guitar Lessons (50% Off)
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Ideal for adult learners looking to develop musical skills at any stage. Weekly lessons build a strong foundation and progress efficiently.
ohJChoose Between Two Options
- $50 for two half-hour guitar lessons (a $100 value)
- $100 for four half-hour guitar lessons (a $200 value)
instructors like Rick Russo and John Pondel can teach you how to master all types of a guitars power.
Electric Guitars: Turning a Magnet into Music
Its a common high-school experiment: moving a magnet through a coil of copper wire to create a tiny electric current. But like anything else found in high schools, this principle proved ideal fodder for rebellion and exploration. Electric guitars create sound when metal strings vibrate within a magnetic field generated by the pickup. The current generated by the now-magnetized string is fed into an amplifier, which then broadcasts the pitch of the plucked string. These complex interactions make the electric guitars sound more expansive and unpredictable than other instruments, making it a key character in the story of early rock n roll.
Players discovered one unique property of the instrument early on when they overloaded their speakers with volume, clipping the tops of the sound waves and creating harsher, fuzzier sounds. Later, players began intentionally applying effects devices, such as the wah-wah pedal, which modulates sounds into a register that resembles a trumpet or human voice. Other distinctive enhancements include the whammy bar (also called a tremolo or vibrato arm), which modulates pitch at the touch of a hand by tightening and loosening the strings to create the dive-bomb sound made famous by surf guitarists and such psychedelic innovators as Jimi Hendrix.
The first truly modern electric guitar arose in the early 1930s. George Beauchamp, a Los Angeles musician, was dissatisfied with early experiments with attaching amplifiers to acoustic guitarsthey created feedback and their signals were weak. Working at home, Beauchamp created a primitive pickup by coiling his wire with such improvised tools as the motor of his familys washing machine. The resulting guitar had a tiny body taken up almost completely by the ad hoc pickup, earning it the nickname the Frying Pan.
Ideal for adult learners looking to develop musical skills at any stage. Weekly lessons build a strong foundation and progress efficiently.
ohJChoose Between Two Options
- $50 for two half-hour guitar lessons (a $100 value)
- $100 for four half-hour guitar lessons (a $200 value)
instructors like Rick Russo and John Pondel can teach you how to master all types of a guitars power.
Electric Guitars: Turning a Magnet into Music
Its a common high-school experiment: moving a magnet through a coil of copper wire to create a tiny electric current. But like anything else found in high schools, this principle proved ideal fodder for rebellion and exploration. Electric guitars create sound when metal strings vibrate within a magnetic field generated by the pickup. The current generated by the now-magnetized string is fed into an amplifier, which then broadcasts the pitch of the plucked string. These complex interactions make the electric guitars sound more expansive and unpredictable than other instruments, making it a key character in the story of early rock n roll.
Players discovered one unique property of the instrument early on when they overloaded their speakers with volume, clipping the tops of the sound waves and creating harsher, fuzzier sounds. Later, players began intentionally applying effects devices, such as the wah-wah pedal, which modulates sounds into a register that resembles a trumpet or human voice. Other distinctive enhancements include the whammy bar (also called a tremolo or vibrato arm), which modulates pitch at the touch of a hand by tightening and loosening the strings to create the dive-bomb sound made famous by surf guitarists and such psychedelic innovators as Jimi Hendrix.
The first truly modern electric guitar arose in the early 1930s. George Beauchamp, a Los Angeles musician, was dissatisfied with early experiments with attaching amplifiers to acoustic guitarsthey created feedback and their signals were weak. Working at home, Beauchamp created a primitive pickup by coiling his wire with such improvised tools as the motor of his familys washing machine. The resulting guitar had a tiny body taken up almost completely by the ad hoc pickup, earning it the nickname the Frying Pan.