Uke Hunt

Posted By: Col on October 15, 2008 at 14:23

My eight year old daughter is in a ukulele club at school and she's doing pretty well with it too. She's currently playing a very cheap and nasty £8.00 uke that sounds awful. So I've spoiled her rotten and just ordered one of these Mahalo Les Paul ukes for her in cherry... more

Martin Guitars raises money for charity with auction

October 15, 2008 at 3:17

Martin Guitar celebrated their 175th Anniversary with a first time auction of guitars donated from their pr...

My cover of Steve Vai?s Answers on YouTube

Posted By: Jon on October 14, 2008 at 23:01

On saturday I finally got around to recording a video using my new Ibanez JS1000BP and one of Steve Vai’s recently released Naked Tracks (see my post about the release here). I chose “Answers” from Passion & Warfare not because it is easy but because... more

Should Magic Ship get a singer?

Posted By: Col on October 14, 2008 at 22:43

PickstrokePress - Support this Site

Posted By: Tim on October 14, 2008 at 22:20

Another new addition to this site is the link at the top of this center column that points to my CafePress store. I’ve names my store PickstrokePress and I have several items available. You will find a polo shirt, coffee mugs, a wall clock, coasters, mouse pads, bumper... more

UserVoice - What do users really want?

Posted By: Jon on October 14, 2008 at 22:11

Regular readers who visit my site and not just my RSS feed may have noticed a couple of changes this week. Firstly I have removed the sIFR code from my site that was transforming my titles into a fancy font by replacing the text with a flash file. This along with all the other... more

Reverend to demo Double Agent guitar at TX Guitar Show

October 14, 2008 at 21:47

Reverend will be displaying at the Arlington, TX Guitar Show on October 17-18. Arlington is the world's...

UserVoice - What do you want to see on Pickstroke?

Posted By: Tim on October 14, 2008 at 21:44

I’m not opposed to trying new things and if you’ve looked around my website in the past couple of days you might have noticed a few new touches. For example: The Guitar Tuner along the left Sidebar or the Twitter Box on the top left or the MyBlogLog box at the bottom... more

CD Review David Gilmour "Live In Gdansk"

Posted By: Gary on October 14, 2008 at 21:14

Disclosure: I got this CD for free I remember very well when Pink Floyd's Ummagumma came out, we all got a copy of course. I wasn't allowed to play mine, though, when my Dad was in the house (that does not mean "In Da House") because he objected to the various howls and... more

Video Guitar Lesson: Surf Guitar Picking

Posted By: Guitar MX Admin on October 14, 2008 at 19:55

Here’s a recently posted video guitar lesson by NextLevelGuitar.com on Surf Guitar Picking. This lesson, by retro-guitarist Jason Lee, explains the fast picking used by Surf Guitar King, Dick Dale. You can find more video lessons by NextLevelGuitar.com instructors here.