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So, your obsessed with guitars to an almost unhealthy point – there the first and last thing you think about during the day. For every day you dont play you become grumpy and youve cut down on the food bill just to afford your new guitar. Now you want to have a crack at building your own all dancing all singing guitar -so what work will go into making it?

• The cost. This wont be cheap -think about the prices of the good wood for the guitar, then the prices of the electronics if building an electric and then the paint job. Also remember the specialist tools you are going to need to build your guitar.
• Practice. If you’ve never held wood cutting tools before, practice is really something you should be considering. You wont be great straight away, so dont start on expensive wood- let that come later when you’ve had some experience. By learning to use the tools and praciting you’ll save yourself more time when doing it on your expensive wood. Once you get to the point of making you guitar, all the practice will pay off.
• Wiring. This is for the guys building an electric guitar, because sooner or later, you are going to have to deal with the electronics. Getting electrocuted may become a factor once the guitar is built and you go to play it, so take extra care with wiring it. Always have a qualified electrician take alook at your work before you put it into the guitar just to be sure.

These are just a few things to consider, but if thats too much work you can always just buy electric guitars from these guys.

Here’s a short run through of three talented musical compsers in classical music.

Ludwig Van Beethoven. Well known perhaps because of the fact that he went deaf in his early twenties and still continued to perform and compose through biting a rod connected to the piano to feel the vibrations. Born in 1770, Beethoven followed in his grandfather and father’s footsteps working in the court of the Elector of Cologne. The elector financed his move to Vienna in 1792, where we studied the violin and counterpoint. His loss of hearing started in 1796, and is believed to be the result of lead posioning, as lead was used alot in life back then before it was known as being posionous. His work has been divided into three sections -early,middle and late periods. The early period was said to be influenced by Mozart and lasted up until 1806, the middle period went from 1803 untill 1814, and the late period from 1815 until his death.

Wolfgang Mozart. Born in 1756, Mozart is considered one of the greast in classical music, having also wrote over 600 pieces of music. Mozart ws a child prodigy, composing from the age of 5 and playing to royalty and at seventeen he was employed as court musician in Salzburg. When he visited Vienna is decided to stay there -and this is the city where he became famous, but not rich by any means. He died of what is believed to be Rheumatic fever in 1791, and rumour has it he was dictacting music on his deathbed.

Bach. Bach was born in Germany in March 1685 and was a composer and organist, influential in the Baroque period and helping to bring the period to maturity. During his life he was more famous for being an organist rather than a composer, for which he was only rediscovered in the 19th century and now considered to be one of the best composers of all time. When Bach was orphaned at 10 years of age we was shipped off to live with his brother, an organist. From his elder brother and guardian Bach learned to play the Clavicord and became proficent in music. Two of the seven Bach children from his first marriage were also great composers in their own right, helping to mould the style known as Rococo -Carl and Wilhem Bach. Bach was hired by Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthen as a director of music in his court (1717-1723) during which time Bach was widowed in 1720 and remarried in 1721. Bach was apointed as the Cantor of Thomasschule in 1723, which was a posistion he held upto his death after eye surgery in 1750.

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Heavy metal has a huge line of guitar players who dominated the stage and played like the demons the vocalists sung about. Here’s three of the guitar players in heavy metal that, although are gone, their influence isnt.

• Randy Rhoads. Randy Rhoads was remembered more for his work with ex Black Sabbath singer Ozzy Osbourne rather than the LA band Quiet Riot. Randy helped to write Ozzy classics such as ‘Crazy train’ and ‘Dee’. Unlike most rock players Randy had a musical grounding in Classical playing, working it into the first two albums that he played on with Ozzy. 1979’s ‘Blizzard of Oz’ album and 1981’s ‘diary of a madmen’. It is believed that Rhoades would’ve gone on to leave the band to study classical guitar at UCLA, and he would seek out classical guitar tutors on tour with Ozzy to keep up his knowledge and playing skill. The specialist Jackson guitars made for Rhoads are a popular choice amongst guitarists today. Rhoads died tragically in a plane crash in 1982, and his since been an inspiration for thousands of guitarists since.
• Chuck Schuldiner. Main songwriter, vocalist and guitarist of pioneering metal band ‘Death’. Often hailed as the ‘father of death metal’, a term that the man himself wasnt in agreement with, Chuck was a huge influence on extreme metal and metal in general. Death’s first release, ’scream bloody gore’, could be said as setting the tone for death metal, but each album featured not only different line ups, but changes in song wiriting and direction. Death release a further 4 albums with the band, ‘Human, ‘Spiritual healing’,'Symbolic’ and ‘The sound of perseverance’ before folding Death to play guitar for ‘Control denied’, which released ‘The fragile art of exsistance’ in 1999. Chuck Schulidner died in 2001 after a long standing battle with brain cancer, which had seen the metal community rally round to try and raise funds for his operations.
• Darrell Lance Abbott -’Dimebag’. Guitarist of the infamous Pantera later of Damageplan and also played guitar on the country band rebel meets rebel. Pantera was formed in 1981 as a glam metal band, but the bands first album ‘Cowboys from hell’ saw them take a much more heavier groove laden approach with the music. Their breakthrough album was 1992’s ‘A vulgar display of power’, which gave the band a whole ‘new level’ of exposure. Next album ‘Far beyond driven’ jumped to the top of the US charts on its release, proving at the time that metal was still ‘alive’. Pantera also released ‘Greater Southern Trendkill’ and ‘Re-inventing the steel’, after which Pantera split, as bassist Rex Brown and vocalist Phil Anselmo went off to do ‘Down’ and ‘Superjoint ritual’ and Dimebag and his brother and drummer Vinnie Paul created ‘Damageplan’. Dimebag was tragically shot while performing onstage with Damageplan in December 2004, which saw the metal community grieve as a collective once again.

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