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Excellent catch!

Hello Greg, that's a good thought. I've also asked myself this question. How would a hearing aid affect my daily practice on the guitar? Especially as I have to play a lot with headphones so as not to disturb the neighbors and my wife. I'll probably take them out when I'm practicing with headphones, because they are already a kind of hearing aid. I'm looking forward to your experiences. Thanks in advance, Roland

In fact a very interesting question. I would say the reason for this is that you might be used to play the blue note very often which is in fact 1/4 bended A. There is a german word for that which I don't know how to translate : Hörgewohnheit ( something like " ways your ears are use to hear music ) and in this case this lead to your personal perseption that the 1/4 bend in this case sounds correct. At the beginning of music there was first the " Hörgewohnheit " and that leaded to theory. So your way is the original, intuitiv one.

This is the first tutorial of the series " Guitar Sound Lab " where I talk about the pure sound of the guitar. I talk about the dynamic range of your equipment and what you can figure out by selecting different guitar pickup settings and settings of your volume. The pure sound tutorial is the most important one because it defines what kind of guitar signal you will send into your effect chains. Here you find the backing track I used in this tutorial. It's only drum & bass that you really can figure out your guitar sound. The chord progression is : Em / Em / C / C / Am / Am / D / D guitar sound lab - pure sound.mp3

The topic is very exciting for me and I am also looking forward to further episodes. Again and again I have doubts about my guitar (besides my limited technical skills) and especially about my various modeling settings. I use a Line 6 HX Stomp. This is just one of many modeling devices on the market. But all these devices have one thing in common. The possibilities are overwhelming. And last but not least, I personally lack the right understanding of the crucial sequence of effects. So obviously the only correct way is to proceed step by step. Greetings, Roland

Hey Hanspeter, thank you for this tutorial! I have a possibly odd question. But it made me crazy for a while, because i suggested that my guitar would be out of tune. So I reall worked hard on the tuning device. And i tested the turnaround on higher strings as well.... But finally it just seems to me, that the turnaround (Ab, A, Bb up to B7) sounds in my ears a bit better or maybe just a bit more natural, when i play after the A the next note not as Bb, but as a 1/4 bended A. Is there any theoretical explanation for this, or is the reason just an old man's bad hearing in this case? I hope my question isn't totally stupid Have a nice evening and thank you!

Timing is 50% of music and in slow blues it's probably rated even higher. So here you can learn how to get an organic timing and how to build great timing automatisms that you can play freely on any slow blues and sound great because your timing works. Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial :