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Here’s a good Rockabilly style guitar riff, played by Robert Renman from www.dolphinstreet.com. It works well over any kind of blues based tune. Pay attention to how fresh the riff sounds when played over an A – D – A chord progression.

My friend Jaron is a great performer. He is just incredible good on stage, and I love playing with him. He makes both crowd and band as good as they can be. We had some good moments at Scalliwags in Camrose in March, 2010. Here are two clips where I used a Hagstrom Swede for one song, and a Suhr Classic on the other song. I used a Spider Valve MkII and a Mack GEM for amps.

A nice little amp from www.ttamplification.com – ranging from 5 to 7 watt output. Here played with a Hagstrom Swede, through an Avatar 2×12 cabinet with Eminence Wizards.

Brossard picks are very, very nice. Here is a demo of the Bone, Horn and Ebony wood picks by Brossard Picks. All three are super nice, to say the least.

Ebony picks have a softer sound compared to the bone and horn picks. Each have their own thing going for them.
Guitar used here – a Hagstrom Swede, and the amp – a Marshall JVM410H.

Here is a demo and review of the Line 6 JM4 looper pedal. This unit has over 100 tracks and drum grooves in more than 10 styles. These tracks are real recordings laid down by top drummers, bass players and guitarists.

The JM4 makes practicing guitar more effective, and more fun. Just load up a song or groove, and practice with it. For each song you load, the key the song is in is clearly displayed.

There’s up to 24 minutes of recording time, and storage for up to 100 recorded jams. A 2-GB SD card in the SD card slot provides additional storage. You can  use the SD card to import your own songs into JM4 Looper and transpose, time-stretch or loop to your heart’s delight.

This Line 6 M9 is a great sounding unit. It is an effects modeler, and it is meant to run in front of an amp, just any other guitar pedals. It has tons of effects in it, over 120 of them, and I think they sound kick ass good.

I made some demos of the M9, so that you can get an idea of what sounds this unit is capable of. The distortion sounds get criticized, but I think they are totally usable.

The M9 is my pick for top new product of 2009.

The Hagstrom Swede is a great guitar for the money. Both the body and the top is made out of Mahogany, and the fretboard is made out of resinator wood (some sort of composite). This guitar has great tones, and is very easy to play. Here is a video review of the Hagstrom Swede.

Here is a 4 bar rock solo lesson, and you can find the TAB and Guitar Pro files on http://www.dolphinstreet.com/guitar_video_lessons/lesson-90.php

This solo was composed by Robert Renman, and it has influences from Gary Moore and Angus Young of AC/DC.

The song is in the key of E. The guitar rhythm chords are E, D and A. Have fun with this one!

Here is a Rockabilly lick that sounds very cool. It’s short but sounds flashy when played up to tempo. It’s not that hard either, since this guitar lick uses a repetitive pick, pull-off, pull-off movement for the bottom 3 strings. Once you get used to this pull-off technique, there are a lots of cool and flashy guitar licks you can do, based on this.

This guitar lick is based on the style of Brian Setzer, one of the most successful Rockabilly guitar players around today.

The Rabid Rodent is a distortion pedal built my friend Bob at www.duhvoodooman.com. It is more or less a copy of the classic Proco RAT distortion pedal, but the Rabid Rodent has a lot more tonal options.

In this demo, I am playing a Michael Kelly Patriot Shadow, which has high output humbuckers in it. The amp I am using is a 4 watt GEM amp from http://www.mackamps.com . I did not use any other effects used in this video. The volume of the amp on this volume was very low, to avoid clipping on the camera microphone. I stunned at how good this setup sounds! I can get tone close to those of a Marshall stack, but without the ear splitting volume. I highly recommend this pedal if you are looking for a great and versatile distortion pedal. I also use it for blues. You get such a fat tone out of this pedal, and with single coils and low gain on the pedal, a sweet blues tone can be had.

Contact DuhVoodooMan and he will build you one too.