Visit my SoundCloud profile for a complete library of all my own music, as well as tracks from Harson Robkus. It’s sometimes easy to forget my initial aim for The Blogging Musician, long before we had contributors or even a name! was to set up a single place to document and share my own music. […]
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Line 6’s flagship beast, the Helix Floor/Rack, is undoubtedly their most powerful guitar effects processor to date. Helix has two powerful processing chips allowing for effects chains 4x that of its predecessor, the Pod HD500x. In its heyday, the HD500x was a powerhouse with the ability to put together great effects chains. Then came Helix,
Line 6 Helix: Beyond Guitar Read Post »
2020’s been a chance to wind down in a lot of ways, but with Christmas now just around the corner, things look to be hitting fever pitch again. With the infection rate coming down and the vaccine on its way I was hopeful for 2021….. Until the UK Government decided to allow everyone to spend
COVID Diary: Christmas Chaos Read Post »
Here’s my new song: In Our Hands, with it’s accompanying video. Written, produced, and performed by Adam Harkus. In Our Hands was written almost nine months ago now, right at the start of the first lockdown when I was still in shock and basically living in fear over the COVID pandemic. Around that time I’d
In Our Hands (For all those we’ve lost) Read Post »
How UK Government policy and Boris Johnson, in particular, have mishandled the COVID epidemic. Failure of Government 1. Death Rate As I write this, COVID has claimed 52,745 lives in the United Kingdom, which’s the highest in Europe and the fifth-highest in the world behind only the USA, Brazil, India, and Mexico. At least two
COVID Diary: Failure of Government Read Post »
Neck relief on an acoustic guitar is crucial for not just great tone, but for great playability too, much more so than on an electric guitar. Here’s all you need to know. I’ve already covered the mechanics of truss rod adjustment for electric guitar, and why extra neck relief can help you achieve a lower
Neck relief on Acoustic Guitars is crucial Read Post »
As the Blogging Musician approaches its fifth birthday, I thought it was apt to set up a ‘Buy me a Coffee’ donation page. As you can see, a coffee icon has appeared on the bottom right corner of the site, so If you’re enjoying the content, feel free to donate and share a coffee with
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We are living through an uncertain economic climate. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a startling financial impact, with the gross domestic product (GDP) of the U.S. experiencing its deepest decline since the depression. This has led to a rise in unemployment. Those working in industries such as the arts, music, and entertainment have been
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How to biggest threat to public health in 100 years has put things into perspective. Remember the news pre-2020, pre-COVID? The beast from the east, flooding, Brexit, plastic bags, politics. In other words, we never had it so good. We didn’t really have any problems. Every day, it seemed, was a slow news day. Those
COVID Diary: Perspective Read Post »
