Cissy Strut featuring Leo Nocentelli of The Meters and Albert Margolis

A video of long time Rock House Instructor Leo Nocentelli of The Meters playing recently at The Belly Up in Long Beach this weekend. Also featured in the video is Rock House Method Key Board Instructor Albert Margolis.

INSPIRE A NEW GENERATION OF CUTOMERS , Jeff Loomis, Guitarist

We have a new ad campaign directed at the owners of musical instrument stores. There will be about 15 total on the series, they are designed to help us get the word out in a fun way about all the really gifted musicians that Rock House is working with.

If you are a fan of Rock House and know of a store you can send this video to, please send it to them. Hey , If you are a store owner and want to INSPIRE A NEW GENERATION of CUSTOMERS to come into your store, you need to make sure they can learn from musicians that are relevant and inspire them. The new breed of guitarist can only be found teaching at Rock House.

Job For A Cowboy Announces North American Tour With Lamb Of God

Press Release

Award-winning Glendale, AZ heavy music powerhouse JOB FOR A COWBOY (JFAC) has announced a fall North American tour in support of its critically acclaimed sophomore album, Ruination. The electrifying group will team up with metal titans Lamb of God for a massive 25 city run that will launch on September 16 in Memphis, TN.The scheduled 8 week trek is slated to run through mid-November.

Ruination skyrocketed to #42 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart last month and has met to scads of critical acclaim in the weeks since its release. JFAC just completed a summer North American tour with Slayer and Marilyn Manson as part of the 2009 ROCKSTAR Energy Mayhem Festival, where the group was called one of the tours shining highlights. A full listing of upcoming JOB FOR A COWBOY live dates can be seen by clicking HERE.

Updated news and tour information will be made available via the JFAC online domains: www.jfacmetal.com / www.myspace.com/jobforacowboy, the Metal Blade Records website: www.metalblade.com and the ACTION! PR website: www.action-pr.com. 

* Check out JOB FOR A COWBOYs new music video, Unfurling a Darkened Gospel now by clicking here.

"technical proficiency...straightforwardly brutal...the band could become pretty noteworthy" - ROLLING STONE

"an Arizona band with a guttural, brute-force sound descended (indirectly) from hardcore punk." - THE NEW YORK TIMES

"Classic Death Metal...not only a full-on death metal band, but one of the countrys most vicious." - REVOLVER

"Modern American death metal...very well developed, yet still blistering and chaotic" – BLABBERMOUTH

"JOB FOR A COWBOY just keeps getting better and better” – THE ONION

"Ruination mixes tech-death precision with expressionist hardcore rage quite ably, and marks JOB FOR A COWBOY as a band fully deserving of their success." - ALTERNATIVE PRESS

"Ruination is potent and intense death metal, very technical with some grind elements. Its taken some time, traveling all over the world playing countless shows and improving their craft, but with Ruination, Job For A Cowboys musical prowess has caught up with the hype." - ABOUT.com

"The new wave of extreme" - GUITAR WORLD  

CHILDREN OF BODOM ANNOUNCE COMPETITION

To celebrate the release of Children Of Bodom's new covers album 'Skeletons In The Closet' on September 21st, Spinefarm Records UK are giving away the following prizes to one lucky winner ...

- An ESP/LTD M-53 Electric guitar
- COB's entire back catalogue including latest album 'Skeletons In The Closet'
- A COB t-shirt
- A limited edition COB 'Skull' bandana
- COB Stickers

All you have to do is answer the following question :

Children Of Bodom's latest studio album 'Skeletons In The Closet' is a collection of seventeen cover tracks by artists such as Suicidal Tendencies, Alice Cooper, Slayer, Andrew WK and more ... Which artist/track should the band have covered and why?

Get creative!

Send your answers to cobhellhole(a)gmail.com before September 21st. The competition is open to anyone, anywhere, and winners will be announced on September 28th.

News From http://www.cobhc.com/

Alex Skolnick Trio European Tour Update

Rock House Instructor and Artist The Alex Skolnick Trio has updated their European tour dates. More info can be found at http://www.myspace.com/alexskolnicktrio

Sep 24 2009 Bristol (UK) 
The Thunderbolt
124 Bath Rd, Totterdown, Bristol BS4 3ED

+44 117=2 0373 8947
www.thethunderbolt.net

Sep 27 2009 Inverness (UK)
The Ironworks
122b Academy Street
Inverness 
IV1 1LX 
http://www.ironworksvenue.com
For general enquiries and to book tickets please contact the box office on 0871 7894173.

Sep 28 2009 Newcastle (UK) 
The Cluny
36 Lime Street
Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 2PQ
Tel. (public / office) 0191 2304474
Te. / Fax. (office)  0191 2304475
cluny@theheadofsteam.co.uk

Sep 29 2009 Sheffield (UK) 
The Boardwalk 
39 Snig Hill
Sheffield, S3208NA, United Kingdom
0114 279 9090‎

Sep 30 2009 Zoetemeer (NL)
De Boerderij 
Zoetermeer, ZH 
Netherlands

Oct 01 Leverkusen (DE) 
Scala Club  
Uhlandstraße 9
51379 Leverkusen-Opladen
Germany
Telefon 02171-767959
http://www.scala-leverkusen.de/club/index.php

Oct 02 2009 Tübingen (DE) 
Sudhaus
Hechinger Straße 203
72072 Tübingen
Germany
+49 7071 74696
http://www.musikwerkstatt-tuebingen.de
www.sudhaus-tuebingen.de

Oct 03 2009 Tannheim (DE),  Schwarzer Adler
Tannheim-Egelsee, Baden-Württemberg 
Germany 
www.myspace.com/clubschwarzeradler
http://www.schwarzeradler-egelsee.de

   
Oct 04 2009 Uster (CH) 
Rock City  
Aathalstrasse 76
8610 Uster, Switzerland
+41 76 345 22 31
www.rock-city.ch

Oct 05 2009 Miltenberg (DE) 
Beavers
Mainzer Str.30 
63897 Miltenberg
Tel. erreichen: 09371 / 949 74 29  
www.beavers-miltenberg.de 

 

Official Living Colour North America Tour dates/ticket links

The newest official Living Colour Tour Dates. Links to the venues and ticket outlets are included. Go to www.myspace.com/livingcolourmusic for more info.

Living Colour North American 2009 Tour

Sept 1 - The Birchmere - Alexandria, VA - Ticketmaster
Sept 2 - Bottle & Cork - Dewey Beach, DE
Sept 3 - World Cafe Live - Philadelphia, PA
Sept 4 - The Crazy Donkey - Farmingdale, NY - MusicToday.com
Sept 6 - Infinity Hall - Norfolk, CT
Sept 8 - Tupelo Music Hall - Londonderry, NH
Sept 9 - FTC @ Stage One - Farfield, CT
Sept 10 - Johnny D's - Somerville, MA - BrownPaperTickets
Sept 11 - Mexicali Live - Teaneck, NJ - TicketWeb
Sept 12 - Rams Head Tavern - Annapolis, MD
Sept 14 - The Loft - Atlanta, GA - TicketAlternative.com
Sept 15 - HOB Orlando - Lake Buena Vista, FL - Ticketmaster
Sept 16 - Bourbon Street - New Port Richey, FL - eTix.com
Sept 17 - Tipitina's Uptown - New Orleans, LA - Ticketweb
Sept 18 - Emo's - Austin, TX - TicketWeb
Sept 19 - Granada Theatre - Dallas, TX
Sept 23 - Canes Bar and Grill - San Diego, CA Ticketmaster
Sept 24 - The Key Club - West Hollywood, CA - TicketWeb
Sept 25 - Regency Ballroom - San Francicso, CA - Ticketmaster
Sept 26 - Berbatis Pan - Portland, OR - TicketWeb
Sept 27 - Studio Seven - Seattle, WA - TicketsWest
Sept 30 - Fine Line Music Cafe - Minneapolis, MN - Ticketmaster
Oct 2 - The Magic Bag - Detroit, MI - Ticketmaster
Oct 3 - Lee's Palace - Toronto, ONT - Ticketmaster
Oct 4 - Double Door - Chicago, IL - Ticketmaster
Oct 5 - The Grog Shop - Cleveland, OH - Ticketmaster
Oct 30 - Highline Ballroom - New York, NY - TicketWeb

David Ellefsons Rock Shop - Episode 19 a "Live Concert Merchandising"

In this episode of David Ellefsons Rock Shop, David talks about selling merchandise at your concerts.

You can watch all of the Rock Shop videos at http://www.youtube.com/davidellefson or at www.myspace.com/davidellefson1

 

David Ellefsons Rock Shop - Episode 19 "Getting Paid To Play"

David Ellefsons newest episode of Rock Shop is about income and expenses for touring artists while playing professionally. David gives some serious insight into the expense and income part of a touring band. Just good stuff to know before you get out there and start making some deals with some venues.


You can watch all of the Rock Shop videos at http://www.youtube.com/davidellefson or at www.myspace.com/davidellefson1

The Rob Balducci band Live 9-12-09

The Rob Balducci Band Live featuring Ethan Meixsell on Bass and John Celentano on Drums will be performing material from the new CD Violet Horizon www.robbalducci.com 

This event is sponsered by WBAB the best radio on Long Island.

Also appearing that night Cosmo's Moon, Red Yellow England and All Thee Above.

Get to this event and join them for a great night of music and the Hottest Waitresses on Long Island at The Zebra Club!!

New Living Colour Posts New Songs

Rock House Artists Living Colour have posted a couple new songs on their My Space site. Songs include Behind the Sun, They have also just posted DECADANCE and OUT OF MY MIND from their forthcoming album : THE CHAIR IN THE DOORWAY, coming out September 15th on Megaforce Records.

Living Colour starts the North American Tour September 1st! go to http://www.myspace.com/livingcolourmusic for you facebook fans : http://www.facebook.com/LivingColour and you can follow them on twitter : http://twitter.com/livingcolour

How NOT to Play Bass like a Guitar Player Playing Bass

Check out the new September issue of PREMIER GUITAR MAGAZINE in which  Rock House Instructor David Ellefson contributed his point of view to a story called “How NOT To Play Bass Like A Guitar Player”.

The issue is on news stands now and you can read a portion of the article online at this location now:

http://www.premierguitar.com/Magazine/Issue/2009/Sep/How_NOT_to_Play_Bass_like_a_Guitar_Player_Playing_Bass.aspx

GARY HOEY, Next Up at The Rock House!

To all the fans of Rock House, here is a little taste of the next artist coming to Rock House to make some instructional products. This is his version of Low Rider. Gary will bring a whole Rock/Blues/Surf vibe to the community.

He will be here on starting on September 14-18. Make sure you subscribe to the Rock House youtube channel for behind the scenes looks as they happen.
http://www.youtube.com/therockhousemethod

Check out www.GaryHoey.com to learn more about this amazing guitar player.

Joe P.

Learning Guitar to Get Laid

Ok everyone at in Rock House World... admit it, you have at one time or another thought the same thing!

The Weekend Read ofr August 23rd - 29th

Put your reading glasses on it's going to be a long day. The blog roll of The Rock House Blog had some great articles posted last week. I found some good interviews, news, lessons and just some plain old good articles. Enough to keep you busy for a while anyways.


Truth In Shredding - As one competition draws to a close so another one opens...COMPETITION: Music Box jam track with cool prizes

The Fifth Fret - When you start out playing guitar, there always seems to be the guitar you’re always looking at...The First Attack of G.A.S.

Street Musician - One thing that really bugs me about myself is my ability to get drawn into a new task...Whatever You Do - Don't Stop Playing

Strat-O-Blogster - Frank Verrilli is a high end artist-- painter & sculptor, with a variety of works exhibited around the world...Verrilli Spiral Guitar - A Strat for Friday #138

Not Playing Guitar - Are you struggling to get your guitar progress into gear...Learn Guitar: 5 Ways to Deal With Stuck Progress

Guitar Noize - Check out this trailer for a new feature documentary premiering at film festivals this spring and summer...60 foot electric guitar tower

Guitar Answers - Here are a few tips from Fender on setting up your Fender guitar...Tips From Fender On Setting Up Your Guitar

Cameron Mizell - Are people supposed to know how to listen to your music if you don’t tell them?...Stating the Obvious

Double Bass Blog - In 2008, I wrote a book titled Road Warrior Without an Expense Account detailing my experiences as a freelance musician...Life After Music School – PDF booklet

I Heart Guitar - Ron Thal, better known as Bumblefoot, is a busy dude right about now....INTERVIEW: Bumblefoot

Jason Shadrick - Guitarist - I created a few worksheets for my students to help them learn some different voicings for major, dominant and minor seventh chords.  These were the most downloaded worksheets from my last blog and I thought it would be useful to post them here again...Chord Voicings Worksheets and Lesson Openings

The Classical Guitar Blog - James Piorkowski is a performer and composer based in New York. He has toured internationally as a soloist and chamber musician, and has recorded several albums. In addition to his performance activities, James is an active teacher and runs the SUNY Fredonia guitar program...An Interview with James Piorkowski, part 1

Have a rockin' weekend
Sarge

David Ellefson on the Art of the Audition

Legendary Metal Bassist at Rock House instructor David Ellefson gives you insight on the best way to approach an audition and helps you understand what to expect!

Dan Jacobs of Atreyu - Guitar Lesson on Creating Metal Hooks with Nasty Riffs

Today’s metal songs are often built with single-note riffs rather then full or power chords and, with a little right-hand muting technique thrown in, they become nasty metal hooks. In metal music, the main guitar riff often becomes the hook of the song, similar to the chorus of a pop song. You find yourself humming it hours or even days after you hear it.

Let’s take a look at sections inspired by two of Atreyu’s popular songs, “Becoming the Bull” and “Doomsday,” from their latest CD and see how these riffs are put together. Dan uses dropped-C tuning, which is attained by first tuning all sixstrings down one whole-step then lowering the sixth string an additional whole-step. (See the lesson “Dark Tunings That Rule Metal Music” for a more detailed explanation of this and other alternate tunings.)

Click On the tabs to make them bigger and clearer.

Example 1 "Doomsday"

Example 2 "Becoming The Bull"

Charvel So-Cal 1 2H Guitar Review by Tony Pasko

Rock House Method  GEAR 411 Guru Tony Pasko has posted a nice review in Premier Guitar about the Charvel So-Cal 1 2H.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve noticed that the Charvel guitar company is back and in a big way. Back in the ‘80s Charvel was the “It” guitar; all the best guitarists played them. Eddie Van Halen and Jake E. Lee were the two reasons I loved them so much, and they played Charvel because back then Strats didn’t come with any options for that type of player. Charvels had bigger frets, a flatter fretboard radius, a locking tremolo system, humbucking pickups already routed for the guitar, and an array of crazy colors and graphics that all the guitarists craved. Did I mention it was the ‘80s?

In June of 2008, Charvel began releasing the newly designed USA Production Models Series. These are American-made guitars, priced right around a grand. Every three months they release limited numbers of each model in custom colors—most recently Ferrari Red, Polar White and Taxi Cab Yellow. They offer two body shapes with Duncan pickups (San Dimas Styles 1 2H and 2 2H), and one with a pickguard and DiMarzio pickups (So-Cal Style 1 2H). They all come with black hardware, Grover tuners, Floyd Rose locking tremolos and a gig-bag. That’s a lot of bang for the buck!

Read the rest of the article @ http://www.premierguitar.com/Magazine/Issue/2009/Sep/Charvel_So_Cal_1_2H_Guitar_Review.aspx