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Friday, January 11, 2008

LESSONS

I'd love to have weekly lessons here but at the moment I just don't have the time at the moment. Hopefully some day I can do I Heart Guitar full-time and I can do all sorts of stuff like that. But if you want a regular lesson, check out my column 'Unleash Your Inner Rock God' in Mixdown Magazine every month.

Lessons
10 things you can do to sound like you
The old hammer-sweep-and-tap
Digital editing for guitarists
Metal 101: Face-melting guitar tones
Writing for two guitars

How to sound like...
How to sound like Metallica
How to sound like Joe Satriani
How to sound like The Cure
How to sound like Andy Summers
How to sound like Muse's Matt Bellamy
How to sound like Alice In Chains' Jerry Cantrell

GEAR REVIEWS

Guitars
Hagstrom F-200p
Dean Soltero Standard (with video)
Dean ML79
Carvin CT6M
Schecter Hellraiser C-1 FR
Schecter Hellraiser Solo-6
Schecter C-1 Blackjack ATX
Schecter Solo-6 Classic
Fender Jim Root Telecaster
Fender Deluxe Lone Star Stratocaster
G&L L2500
G&L ASAT Custom
G&L Legacy Special
Jackson Mark Morton Dominion
Gibson Dark Fire
Gibson Les Paul Jr Nashville
Epiphone Les Paul Ultra II
Fernandes Ravelle Deluxe Baritone
Cole Clark Guardian
First Act VE951
Taylor SolidBody Custom
Taylor T3/B
EVH Wolfgang
ESP Michael Amott Ninja
ESP LTD EC-256
Ampeg Dan Armstrong ADA6
Sterling By Music Man AX20
Sterling By Music Man Silo20
AXL Badwater
Lag Arkane AM100 & AM1000
Baden Guitars A-Style
Baden Guitars D-Style

Amps
Carvin Legacy VL100
Carvin V3 & 412VT cabinet
Bogner Alchemist (with video)
Krank Revolution +
Krank Rev SST
Crate V33-212
Peavey Windsor Studio
Marshall 1959RR Randy Rhoads
Ampeg J-20
Rex Bassking
Line 6 Spider Valve
Eden WTB300

Pedals
HomeBrew Electronics Paul Gilbert Detox EQ
MXR Classic 108 Fuzz
MXR M-134 Stereo Chorus
Jim Dunlop Buddy Guy Crybaby Wah
Jim Dunlop Jimi Hendrix Wah
GigFX Mega Wah
DigiTech HardWire pedals
DigiTech Whammy
DigiTech TimeBender delay
Electro-Harmonix Metal Muff With Top Boost
Xotic BB Preamp
Morley Bad Horsie 2 Contour Wah
Voodoo Labs pedal switching systems
T-Rex Twister chorus/flanger
BBE Boosta Grande
BBE Green Screamer
EvenTide TimeFactor
Roger Mayer Concorde +
Roger Mayer Metalloid
Morpheus DropTune
Way Huge Swollen Pickle MKII Fuzz

Pickups
DiMarzio LiquiFire & Crunch Lab (John Petrucci models)
Seymour Duncan Alternative 8
Seymour Duncan P-Rails
EMG ACS

Software
IK Multimedia AmpliTube 2
IK Multimedia AmpliTube Fender
Waves GTR Solo

Other
Jim Dunlop Ultex Sharp picks

INTERVIEWS

MUSICIANS

MUSIC REVIEWS

CD reviews
Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know
Queensryche - American Soldier
Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy
Adam Miller - Out Of My Hands
Sammy Hagar - Cosmic Universal Fashion
Paul Gilbert & Freddie Nelson - United States
Lloyd Spiegel - Live in Japan
Extreme - Saudades De Rock
Bryan Beller - Thanks In Advance
Q Ball - This Is Serious Business
Trivium - Shogun

DVD reviews
Steve Vai - Visual Sound Theories
Lloyd Spiegel
Tommy Emmanuel - Center Stage

Concert reviews
Def Leppard & Cheap Trick
Lynch Mob
Alice In Chains

FEATURES

Going it solo
Festival survival guide
Tone vs sound
How to buy an amp
Beginner's guide to pickups
Timbers for timbre
Faked out - counterfiet guitars
How to play in a band, part 1
How to play in a band, part 2
Amp glossary

LISTS
5 awesome but fictional guitarists
8 is enough... for now - Production 8 string guitars
8 Whammy Pedal moments you totally have to hear
Reamping devices
Brutal metal axes
Magic 8 Ball looks at the reunion revolution
Cool guitars they don't make any more
Cool guitars they don't make any more 2
Cool guitars they don't make any more 3

CONTACT

You can contact me at iheartguitarblog@gmail.com if you have any site feedback, questions, etc.

You can also find me on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/iheartguitar

And on myspace at http://www.myspace.com/peterhodgson

Finally, my YouTube channel is http://www.youtube.com/iheartguitarblog

Soon I'll have a PO box for review materials. I'll make an announcement on the blog when this is available.

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Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Advertising info

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I Heart Guitar has a high level of Google traffic as well as a strong regular readership who like to interact via each story's comments section. The site currently gets between 50,000 and 60,000 pageviews per month. Higher traffic can be expected in January and July (NAMM trade shows) and March (Musikmesse trade show), when regular visitors hit the site more often for news, and Google traffic increases as casual readers search out the latest news. Scroll down to see who's mentioned I Heart Guitar.

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WHO'S MENTIONED I HEART GUITAR?

Premier Guitar
Tech - What Is Twitter? (May 2009) - Perhaps the most interesting reads, however, are the many guitar bloggers on Twitter. Bloggers like I Heart Guitar’s Peter Hodgson and Guitar Noize’s Jon Bloomer both post regularly, from what they’re listing to at the moment to guitar news and everything in between.

Twitter Map (July 2009)

Guitar Edge
Article on I Heart Guitar - This guitar blog maintained by Peter Hodgson is a rapidly growing site, thanks in large part to his prolific yet engaging Twitter presence. Updated daily with industry news, press releases, new gear announcements, and occasional interviews, it’s readily apparent that Hodgson truly does “heart guitar.”

While most of the posts are press releases for new gear, Hodgson is as current on it as anyone out there, even beating a few more established “corporate” guitar sites to the punch on many of them. He’s also secured some pretty big names for interviews, including recent chats with Dinosaur Jr.’s J Mascis (June 29) and Chickenfoot’s Joe Satriani (June 16).


Jemsite Blog
We Heart Hodgson (July 2009) - Some great news came my way the other day. Peter Hodgson, the hip guitarist who writes the I Heart Guitar blog, is being featured on DiMarzio Inc., maker of some of the best guitar pickups in the world. They're using clips of his guitar playing on their website to showcase their John Petrucci (Dream Theater) signature pickups, the Crunch Lab 7 and LiquFire 7.

Gear-Vault
Top Guitars Blogs - iheartguitar is making waves not only online, but in print. This blog is pure professionalism. His content is very well written and the writer (Peter) flows with knowledge, and his website’s name [iheartguitar] is the perfect name for Peter, because he truly does love guitars. Read his blog and you’ll quickly see how passionate he really is. Keep up the good work Peter!

 
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