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It was a blast to revive all the thrill once again with this year's edition of our classic "WikiWriters Competition", and our members sure didn't dissapoint!
Almost two months have gone by, and loads of quality entries have been added to our wiki. These are the winners:

1st Place: Staffy - Prize: VOX ToneLab ST
2nd Place: Boson - Prize: Fender Champion 600
3rd Place: Sensible Jones - Prize: PocketPOD Express

Here's a selection with some of the best competition entries by our members:

The Beatles - Score: 8/8
Ibanez guitar buying guide - Score: 7/8
Build your own Guitar - Score: 8/8
Deep Purple - Score: 7/8
Jaco Pastorius - Score: 8/8
Jimi Hendrix - Score: 8/8
Allan Holdsworth - Score: 7/8
Pat Metheny - Score: 8/8
Robert Johnson - Score: 7/8

See the whole list of entries, scoreboard & details here.

This competition hasn't only provided excellent material for our wiki, but also has resulted in two new Wiki:ers in our family: Boson & Staffy
Thanks to everyone that took part, all entries were great to read!, and congrats to the winners! See you all in next year's edition

You see, things like this are what makes GMC so special and great.

A unique instructor such as Trond Vold devotes his free time to create awesome songs, then decides to share them with our community and suggests that certain parts could improve with the right lyrics.

And then comes Kristofer Dahl, site founder & rocker, takes the idea and mixes the vocals himself, with his own lyrics. Heart & soul.

Can it get more real? Guys, this is what Rock & Roll is all about. If you don't believe it, then hear it. It's a blast. And the song is not even finished yet!, so keep an eye on the boards.

Thanks guys for this kind of stuff. It sure makes us feel alive.

GMC Funnies!

GMC Funnies #38!

Proffesional drawer Jason Nocera shares with us his new creations each weekend: funny cartoons featuring our members and their crazy stories are coming our way!

Seeking the tone!

• The idea comes from something found on this thread
• Forum discussion about this cartoon can be found here

New GMC Badges

Our forum badges get a new design!
Have you noticed new shiny eye-catching badges floating around our boards? GMC's founder Kristofer Dahl has just uncovered the new badge designs that have already gone live. And we have to say they are looking good!

So farewell old badges!, these are the new designs from now on!:

• GMC Staff: Makes site Admins & Instructors easy to spot!
• Senior Badge: Good ol' Seniors are always there to lend you a hand!
• GMC Wiki:ers! Now, who are these people? Just kidding! We all love their articles & hard working spirit
• Most Valued Contributers: Cool guys that make our forums the best on the net! Meet GMC's very first MVC, Sensible Jones! Congrats mate!

You can become part of these ranks too!, just stick around, enjoy our boards and learn a LOT in the process
If you wish to learn more about these ranks, and many other helpful people around, take a look at our Oganization Charts!

David Wallimann

September Collabs Ready

Did you think that we'd let September go without any new collabs? No way!
New collabs are always present in our boards, our members are devoted guitarists & our instructors don't ever let them rest ;)

So what's new? Well, this month we have three new mixes ready. Take a look:

• Gabriel Leopardi - Southern Metal Collaboration: A dropped D riff serves as backing for fourteen GMC guitar heroes to show their pentatonic rocker/bluesy licks in this great sounding final mix.

• David Wallimann - Master the Mixolydian: We love videos at GMC, and David gives us what we crave for with his cool Video-comments in this one. 10 participants compiled their unique takes into a successful collab. Check the video comments!

• Santiago Díaz Garcés - Feeling inc collaboration: Sixteen members took part in Santiago's latest project: a ballad collab based on bendings & vibrato, two key techniques that every guitarist needs to master!. Hear what they came up with together here

• Santiago Díaz Garcés - Heavy Metal Collab: Santiago has been really bussy this month running two collabs, and together with the previous "Feeling Inc" he now strikes with a powerful backing full of riffs & solos featured by six metal members. Hear for yourself!

Lesson series

Lesson Series Section Keeps Growing

Our Lesson Series section keeps growing strong, and more colourful little boxes populate our site now with the recent addition of exciting material there:

• Zsolt Galabos - Modal Madness
• Pedja Simnovic - Intervals
• Gerardo Siere - Latin Rhythm Patterns
• Gerardo Siere - Classical Guitar Admission Exam
• Muris Varajic - Legato & Picking
• Gerardo Siere - BWV 997 Fugue

GMC Video Chat

Gmc Video Chat

In this little corner of the world called GMC we are used to watching great instructors play guitar, and what's more, we love to interact with them. We've been doing so thanks to our lively forums & chat, and now a brand new & exciting option becomes available too: Video Chat! What can be more enticing than watching our favourite instructors in real time, and be able to ask our doubts and talk to them live? :)

After a few test chats with Kristofer Dahl we must say that it works so good and feels like a real one-on-one guitar lesson & chat, just amazing!

Check out GMC Wallpapers Section

What Gmc'er Lives Closest To You?

Join the World Wide GMC Map!

Who is Who? - Check GMC's Organization Chart!

Have you heard about the new Video player controls?

Meet GMC's First MVC!

Seems like a play on words doesn't it? "GMC's First MVC", what is that!

Elected through a public vote in our forums we have our first shiny MVC among us, no other than... Sensible Jones!

Congrats Jones, so well deserved :)

Siggum 1st Prize

Guitar Master Competition Winners

One of the greatests competitions in GMC history has taken place lately, Guitar Master just turned out to be an extremely popular contest in which many of our members showcased their skills & composing aptitudes.

1st Place: SIGGUM
2nd Place: Kaznie_NL
3rd Place: Staffy

Download all participants takes (winners included) here, and watch 1st place winner's take here.

The Uncreator

Awesome tracks by our members

Just lately our Senior member The Uncreator shared with us his new myspace site, Lascaille’s Shroud. Be sure to check it out, it's full of awesome tracks & interesting info to know him better.

We also have an amazing cover of "Freebird", brought by GMCer Gilmore, who recorded slide guitars, acoustic, rhythm & lead guitars, piano, organ & even programmed the drums and bass. Just amazing, don't miss it!

Last but not least an inspiring cover by Patrik Jezierski, who nailed Jack Thammarat's "Falling in love again". You can watch the video

Much more can be found in the Uploads forum

- Challenges
- Collabs & Video collabs
- Site improvements
- Virtual Bands achievements
- Member finished songs
- Uploads
- Instructor related news
- Competitions/prizes
- Pictures
- Personal news: you got some new gear? Improved your playing? Learnt something new? Played your first Gig?....

Help make the best GMC Journal and Newspaper database for all GMC members to enjoy! (And earn your Wiki:er Rank status in the meantime!)

All related info can be found in This Thread at our Wiki Forum

Using the search database to find old news:

All Wiki Journal articles are named as "Journal yyyy-mm-dd title", where yyyy is the year, mm the month and dd the day. This way if you wanted to know what happenned during december 2008 you can just type 2008-12 in the Wiki search field and all entries regarding those dates will appear. You can also just search anything that happenned during a certain year by typing "Journal 2008" for instance.

Using Wiki GMC Category to find old news:

Just click on this: GMC category link, and all articles ever published in our Journal will be listed under letter "J", following the naming instructions stated above. Piece of cake!