{"id":573,"date":"2006-02-21T05:37:07","date_gmt":"2006-02-21T05:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=573"},"modified":"2014-06-09T15:56:07","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T15:56:07","slug":"alex-uh-he-bows-to-zack-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=573","title":{"rendered":"Alex, Uh, He Bows To Zack Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nSo my eBow Plus<\/a> finally arrived. Yup, this baby creates feedback on guitar strings, allowing me to make violin-like, attackless sounds with the guitar. Harmonica, flute, string sections, theremins and the like can be coaxed from a guitar. It came with a badge which implied “no picks allowed<\/i>” but I don’t use picks anyway. \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n


\nI was thinking of getting new strings while at it, considering how likely I’d get rabies from the old ones. I got myself Elixir<\/a> .011 Polyweb strings. Shiny, smooth buggers with a coating that would protect it from rust and grime, allowing it to last 3-4 times longer than normal strings. Sadly, it was the only one left, or else I’d have gotten the electric ones, at most .010 or .009 gauge. This one however was for acoustic, and had a wound third string. \ud83d\ude41 Blues bending would need lots of strength and practice on the third string. Also, because the strings were slippery, I was more likely to lose my grip while bending, for the strings to painfully snap back.<\/p>\n


\nI also could not locate pliers (I don’t have a string cutter) so what do you do with leftover wire? The Polyweb strings could not snap just by bending it back and forth!<\/p>\n


\nAnd so, I made my Yamaha look like a BC Rich. Cellotape them up and your guitar’s looking sharp.<\/p>\n

Sadly, the Polyweb strings make it a lot harder to activate the feedback on the eBow. Recordings shall come soon enough; I’ve been playing The Beatles – Yesterday<\/b> for a while now, and now I can lay down the backing string sections with the eBow!<\/p>\n

There you go people, a guitar-related post. How could you guys not<\/b> know that I play guitar? I even have a metal guitar slide, a ukelele and a wah pedal!<\/p>\n

On a side note, check out Zack Kim<\/a>‘s blog! This crazy shredder shreds with Cosmic Funk Express<\/a> and now shows off how he can play two guitars with two different guitar lines on video! Where? On Zack Kim<\/a>‘s site, of course!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So my eBow Plus finally arrived. Yup, this baby creates feedback on guitar strings, allowing me to make violin-like, attackless sounds with the guitar. Harmonica, flute, string sections, theremins and the like can be coaxed from a guitar. It came with a badge which implied “no picks allowed” but I don’t use picks anyway. \ud83d\ude1b […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6267,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions\/6267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}