It was great fun. Here are the incriminating pictures. If you want to see more of Ben Edwards head over to the sitting room. Thanks to everyone because it was a fantastic evening riddled with humour, banter and fun.
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We had a bit of a Rock Star party last night to celebrate the incredible man that Ben Edwards is and the beautiful Sade too!
It was great fun. Here are the incriminating pictures. If you want to see more of Ben Edwards head over to the sitting room. Thanks to everyone because it was a fantastic evening riddled with humour, banter and fun.
It was great fun. Here are the incriminating pictures. If you want to see more of Ben Edwards head over to the sitting room. Thanks to everyone because it was a fantastic evening riddled with humour, banter and fun.
Wow, things are off the hook here at RockStar. Being hyper busy and hyper connected is pretty intense work sometimes. We like to relax around the cookie jar but some crazy deranged fool has put a bear trap in the jaw and filled the jar with piranhas. Bad news for the guitarists. Today amid the chaos we are putting a new coat of paint on the shopfront. Not literally and we`re not knocking the building down altogether either but we are concentrating on new ways to communicate with our customers. We have had so many mind blowing meetings about the future of guitar learning online I think my mind is actually broken. We cant wait to change the world and we`re determined to do it with your help. Mondo Cane!!
I havent got any time left in my life to write a blog post today, but I`m not letting it go.
Ask not what your blog can do for you but what you can do for your blog. So what`s it all about, Alife? Well our blog is hopefully becoming many things, to many people. Nefariously it could be seen as social engineering, or is it S.E.O., or is it transparency; it`s not a finite thing – it`s a voice, a personality, it is intimacy, it is permission. It isn`t about measuring the blog it`s about measuring us. Its` all about you. Talk to us.
How`s the guitar playing going?
Hi bloggers, it’s Mark McKenzie here. Thought it was about time I added my two cents in (exchange rate isn’t good at the mo).
This is titled “Why I like Songpond” for lack of a better title. But since the reasons are many and your time is precious, I will give out only one at a time for you to comment on or disagree with.
Just over a year ago I sat with the masterminds of the monster that is Rockstar Recipes. Over a Flat white, they painted thier vision of a thing called “Songpond” a place where anyone could learn the songs THEY wanted to play from the comfort of thier home. You see I have been teaching Guitar now to ordinary people for over 20 years. But whenever the student would leave the nest and fend for themselves, they struggled. I would later bump into them on the street and they would look all embarassed because they’ve not learnt any new songs since the last lesson.
I’ve found that the easiest and most rewarding way for a musician to progress is to they want to play!. Otherwise they get bored and disillutioned. I’ve had countless guitar players tell me they almost quit because they didnt like the songs they had to learn.
So why Songpond?
You choose the songs you wanna learn!
Nothing revs you up like the possibility of you being able to strum along to your favourite song NOW! And you have no motivation issues when it comes to finding time for practise when it is a joy. You learn your favourite song, you are getting the strum and feel of the tune. Maybe there is a chord you’ve never played or a lick you thought would be too advanced but actually it’s not that hard. Most of all it’s the FEELING you get when you can hear it. You are doing it. No gimmicks or cheating, for that moment you are in the band..on stage …and loving it. That my friends is why we play music. That is why we spend our precious time watching the lesson over and over until that little section is sounding like something. Let’s get you playing like your favourite players.
Just one bite at a time!
Mark McKenzie
Most of the Boss songs were about Parties, Partying, drinking beer, drinking whisky, smoking or brewing home brew beer. Never had a seen a performer whom I believed they had fully lived and experienced EVERY aspect of every song they were singing about. There was something disturbingly impressive and intriguing about this man. He was a great player, and excellent singer however also seemed to not care at all about how he was perceived by anyone in the room. There was almost an air of arrogance about him, yet it could also be mistaken for a man that just simply doesn’t have a lot of social interaction. It seemed as though he would’ve been just as happy playing on tin cans and pipes as he was playing on his old gear and I think it would’ve been just as intensely enjoyable. This was one of the most interesting performances I have ever seen in my life, and because of it really got me thinking about how / we all approach playing, practicing and performing. For too long a lot of friends and I think have grown complacent with our playing, with our practice, with our performances. For too long it all now seems so ‘contrived’, so rehearsed, so passionless. It got me really thinking about the best players, the best songs and the best ‘feelings’
you get when you see a hot player or listen to an amazing song. What is the ‘one’ common thread that runs through all of these things? Passion.
It made me realize that for us all to be great players, great workers, great friends, great parents, great lovers… passion is what’s needed.
you get when you see a hot player or listen to an amazing song. What is the ‘one’ common thread that runs through all of these things? Passion.
It made me realize that for us all to be great players, great workers, great friends, great parents, great lovers… passion is what’s needed.
It’s so easy to get caught up with whether you have new strings on, am I in tune? What is the sound system like at the venue? Will there be a band rider? These are all too commonly asked and not backed up by intense passionate playing or song writing. I would go so far to say that Boss Christ was either the best or worst experience I have had in a long time, and if only to come to the realization that complacency will creep in to every single on of us at some point, and it does creep, it creeps slowly and infiltrates our beings. It’s at these times we need our very own Boss Christ to come and shake it up for us, remind us about what we really are doing!
Anyway… think about that….and next time you are playing or performing, if your audience aren’t on the edge of their seats for any reason… then I think you have failed.
Cheers! Keep up the great practice and I will return soon!
Ben Edwards
Well, I have finally managed to find a spare 10 minutes in my day to make my first blog post. I am SO sorry to all of the readers that have made requests that I write…. But here I am! There’s really no need for me to introduce myself being the ‘face’ of the popular Jamorama product, so I would instead like to welcome everyone to our Rock Star Recipes ‘blog-train’, so all aboard this mad locomotive of music, energy, thoughts and love.
Alright then, what can you expect me to write about? I am a lover of all guitars, gadgets, bits and bobs so you can expect me to regurgitate some conceptual ideas about what floats my boat with ‘guitar stuff’. You can also expect me to regularly offer some insightful and deep, metaphysical ways to approach your learning, playing, writing and jamming on your guitar (or ANY instrument for that matter)… so keep your eyes peeled. I`ll be posting again tomorrow about some inspiring and unique live shows I saw at the weekend so subscribe to the RSS feed and you`ll be the first to find out about all the crazy music madness going on down here and what`s really cookin` at Rock Star.
Alright then, what can you expect me to write about? I am a lover of all guitars, gadgets, bits and bobs so you can expect me to regurgitate some conceptual ideas about what floats my boat with ‘guitar stuff’. You can also expect me to regularly offer some insightful and deep, metaphysical ways to approach your learning, playing, writing and jamming on your guitar (or ANY instrument for that matter)… so keep your eyes peeled. I`ll be posting again tomorrow about some inspiring and unique live shows I saw at the weekend so subscribe to the RSS feed and you`ll be the first to find out about all the crazy music madness going on down here and what`s really cookin` at Rock Star.
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