Entry 30

I can't wait till black friday, also November twenty - second will be the third year I've had my Ibanez GAX 70 the Gio series. So that means I've been playing guitar for about 5 years. To me I think its very impressive that over the 5 years that I've been playing guitar, all the things I've cumulated / boughten probably adds up to over five or six thousand dollars.

Entry 29

I've started a list of bands that I want to get music for and so far I have over 100 bands that I would like to get music for. The question is where am I going to get the music? Either ill have to download if from www.youtube.com or go out and order the cds online. Either way its going to tack awhile to achieve all this music.

Entry 28

I'm finally catching up on my blog posts, I think today we are supposed to be at entry 30 and this is my 28th post so only two more to go. So I guess today the junior class is leaving for a field trip to like the new Anamosa health clinic or something. Im still trying to figure out what this has to do with school but I guess I will just sit and wait. Also I think the sophomore class has a new student that should be interesting.

Entry 27

So two days ago we took the test over "Roots", I honestly didn't think the test was that hard but being very anxious to know what I got on the test. Lately I've been looking for bands that have come out with recent albums so I can order them. I found these two bands online that I've never heard of one of them is called "Absu" and the other is "Luna Mortis." It's weird most people that like the same kind of music I do would probably prefer a guy singer over a girl singer but me I like bands that are very instrumentally talented with the guitar and drums and also having a girl singer, theirs something about girl singers that sing in metal bands that just gets me.

Entry 26

A little bit about tone and volume knobs on a guitar, typically when you buy a guitar the factory puts 500k Ω controls in the guitar. There are aftermarket controls that are 250k Ω. I always replace the 500k with the 250k. The reason has to deal with ohms lets explain it like rocks in the river. for the 500k controls that means there is 500 ohms in the river when you have 500 rocks in the river the stream will flow a lot slower than if there were 250 rocks in the river. What Im getting at is the 250 ohm controls have less resistance than the 500 ohm controls, therefore the signal flows a lot faster with less resistance while using the 250 ohm controls.

Entry 25

Im looking at buying an Epiphone Explorer at Guitar Center because its only one hundred and ninety nine dollars. The only set back is, is that it has passive electronics and the magnets for the pickups are made of alnico instead of ceramic magnets. For some reason ceramic magnets seem to be a more sensitive then magnets made of alnico. When using passive electronics with distortion there seems to be a hum coming from the amp when not playing and when using active electronics it seems to eliminate the annoying hum.

Entry 24

So far my shop class project has been coming along quite well. I've gotten a lot of the pieces cut to size for it. Im going to be so excited when its done. It will be very nice and convenient for me. Lately I've been recording music, not necessarily recording songs, but the riffs I come up with. Hopefully in the future when I get better people will notice what I've recorded and want to have me make a song out of it with them.

Entry 23

Living in the new house will be very nice. The house we are living in right now is pretty small for me, I think the size of my room is about 10 by 10 if not a little bit smaller. My new room will be about 14 by 17. In my head that sounds very large. Also my mother says that my room will be sound - proof. Having my room be sound proof would be very nice because I like to play guitar late at night and if my room was sound proof I wouldn't be annoying everyone in the whole house while I play.

Entry 22

So yesterday was a busy day for me. First thing yesterday morning we had amish people working on our house. Then I had a doctors appointment at nine forty five for my H1N1 shot. Then me and my mom went to Menards to get some supplies for my shop class project. Later that day we went to the place where they were digging the basement of our new house. If you have never watched it its very interesting you should stop what your doing sometime and go watch.

Entry 21

Lately as I've been reading more and more, I can tell that I am like to read more often also Im getting faster at reading. I've also been enjoying what I read. Pretty soon Im going to have to plug my computer in because I have five percent left on my computers battery.

Entry 20

So today when I was surfing the web at school, I realized that a certain website was blocked, www.guitarworld.com its a magazine that I read. I was quite shocked that it was blocked. I honest have no clue why they would block it. In my opinion I don't think it is all that bad of a website.

Entry 19

So today is Tuesday November 17th 2009. So lately there has been this car that Im looking at to buy its like an early 1990s Ford Taurus its like forest green, four door but it doesn't have any rust on it which is a good thing. Im not sure how much the dealer ship is wanting for it but I don't think it would be much more than one thousand dollars. Hopefully the dealership would let me do payments on the car, so that way I wouldn't have to spend all my money at once, like one hundred fifty dollars a month or something. I've also been creating my wish list for this year, Its not very big but its pretty expensive. I can't wait till the end of the month, thats when I get paid. It would be nice if I got paid every 2 weeks or something.

Entry 18

Things Im wanting to get within the next couple months. I've been really wanting to get a Marshall half stack and this other thing its called a Boss ME-70 multi effects pedal, also I'm wanting to get a Semi - Hollow body guitar, and an Epiphone Explorer with a floyd rose locking nut and bridge with active emg humbuckers 81 on the bridge and a 60 on the neck.

Entry 17

Its the middle of November and I'm wanting the end of the semester to come a lot faster. I can't wait for that time period because I should be done with my shop class project and I will hopefully be getting a pay raise. Hopefully will be able to spend my yearly large amount of over 1,000 dollars. I haven't been go Guitar Center in awhile but I was there the other weekend and surprisingly they never forgot me, I walked in and most of the people working there were like, "hey tyler what's up?" That was kind of nice to know that they still know me.

Entry 16

So this entry Im going to write about my cousin travis who is 19. This is one of the most musically talented kids ever. As of right now he has created his own record label and he has 2 CDs online for sale at 12$ a piece so really. He is making all the money he brings in. Compared to my cousin mallory she will have to take a price cut and only get a certain percentage of the total profit.

Entry 15

Im using the writing prompts for this entry. It says to think of 10 challenges you have faced in the past 3 months and write about one. So in the past three months I've faced a lot of challenges some difficult some hard some impossible that Im still trying to conquer today. One of the bigger challenges is coming up with original music. Like writing my own music and not copying anybody else's stuff. A set back that I just had which is really making me want to push harder in life is my cousin mallory. She just turned 18 last month and during that month she was signed to a record label to produce her music. Like she can go to their studio and record her music get it put on a cd then get it marketed. Its just been hard to think that this is really happening...

Entry 14

So right now id have to say that the band Metallica has got to be one of the best musically talented band out there. Especially the guitarist Kirk Hammet, He has come up with some of the most amazing guitar riffs. So Im running out of things to write about. Right now Im listening to Lose Yourself by Eminem. This is a very good song if you are a musician. Its very inspiring. Take me for example there has been times when I get in a slump and feel like I can't make it anywhere. I just play this song and some others by Eminem and my confidence is back up.

Entry 13

So today in shop class I started building my project. Everyone says its going to be very difficult but Im pretty sure I can build it. My project is basically a guitar rack that holds 8 guitars then it has 3 storage spaces in it. The top two storage spaces are for amp chords, midi chords, and power chords. Then the bottom storage space is more for when Im performing on stage. It holds all my amp effects and pedals and stuff like that. And it also has two cup holders on it.

Tuesday November 3rd

So today is tuesday tomorrow is wednesday which means its hump day. Friday we don't have school which will be super exciting. After this semester my mom says if i pass she will buy me a Marshall Half stack that is vintage white. Its approximate total value is around 700$. Then after that I want to buy a Boss ME-70 i think is what its called its around 300 dollars. It has almost ever effects pedal built into it. Then for the variety show i want to buy a new classy guitar.