Apple Home Studio

Hey boys and girls from GMC,

It's been a while since I last posted. I haven't really touched the guitar for a while or thought about music. However, I do want to get back into it.

My plan is the following: building an Apple Home Studio, taking piano lessons and singing lessons. To cope with my arm injury I will leave my guitar on the bench for a little while. Anyway, my budget is between 1200 - 1500 euros. Not sure if that is sufficient, otherwise I can always throw a little extra money on, but preferably not!

So far I have some cheap second-handed G5 Power Macs that I'm interested in (around 500 euros), an Axiom Pro 61 (really, really cool midikeyboard for about 400 euros) and Logic Pro Studio (which I've found new for 351 euros).

About these last two I'm pretty sure I will get them, but it's the Power Mac I am worried about. I don't want to waste my money on a computer which has a short (economical) lifespan, if you know what I mean. If I buy one now, I want to be able to use it for the next 4-5 years.

The Mac I'm looking at right now has the following specs:

Apple Powerpc G5
1,8GHZ
4 GB
75 GB HDD
700 GB extra HDD
Leopard OSX
some preinstalled programs such as Adobe CS4

Should I go for it?

Piano/keyboard Lessons!

Hey!

How about adding piano and keyboard lessons to the curriculum of this site?

New Midi Keyboard, New Problems

Never mind! I got it working

Left-handed Guitar

Hey guys,

As I'm still trying to cope with my extremely annoying arm I've decided that I'm going to teach myself left-handed guitar. I thought... as I'm a lefty with everything else, why not guitar as well? Can't be that hard...

Well, wrong! Haha, it is pretty hard to start out. I'm the biggest newbie again (which means being able to play a sloppy version of Smoke of the Water!), but it is exciting. I could use some help though.

If you've ever learnt how to play left-handed guitar, how did you start out? Did you restring the guitar upside down? Any things that I might need to know?

Harp Harmonics

Dear instructors,

Even though I won't be able to play guitar until after the holidays, I thought it would be cool to have a lesson on harp harmonics. It's a really cool technique.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTIlGmuoV58

He does it at 0:47. Pretty cool, huh?

Anyone up for it?