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Happy Holidays!

December 26, 2011 in Behind the scene at the Gigs, Day to Day, Guitar Slinger Episodes with 1 Comment

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!

Just in case you’re wondering were I’ve been the last month…

Here’s a little video update!

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My New Years Goals…

This year I plan to make YourGuitarSchool.com even better than ever!

Please keep sending me feedback and lesson ideas I truly want it to be “Your” guitar school.

Also this is the year for a new music and a new cd!

As for the “Guitar Slinger Program” … It hasn’t generated a lot of views so I’m going to focus all my energies on the new music!

Wishing everyone a fantastic 2012!

Guitar Slinger!

Guitar duo performing at the Hotel Vancouver

November 20, 2011 in Behind the scene at the Gigs, Guitar Slinger with 0 Comments

Last friday night I performed as a guitar duo at the Hotel Vancouver. Would you like to know what it was like??

This event was a private engagement for the hotel chef that was retiring after his twenty-five years of service at this wonderful establishment.

Our job was to provide live background music and what made this event special was that the client asked that we play music to fit a French theme!

Fortunately playing rumba flamenco tunes by the Gipsy Kings made perfect sense as the band is based in France. Also this event allowed me to dust off all my Django Reinhardt charts. Plus a few other French titles I added to the mix such as La vie en Rose.

Anyways… here’s the Guitar Slinger video taking you behind the scenes on my gig.

Enjoy!

What it’s like on the judging panel for the Boss Canadian National Looping Championship

November 6, 2011 in Behind the scene at the Gigs with 1 Comment

Today I was honored to be asked by Roland Canada to be one of the judges for this years Boss Canadian National Loop Station Championship!

This years event was held in Vancouver at the Vancouver Croatian Centre.

I arrived at 1:30 pm to go to the pre-contest meeting. There we were given our judging ballots and judging criterias.

Along with me on the panel was Dave Martone, Danger (DJ with Vancouver’s FM99.3 the Fox) and Peter Lafferty the Boss Product Manager

The judging panel for the Canadian National Loopstation 2011 Championship from left to right... Dave, Danger, Myself & Peter.Photo by Adam Besse

Here's me being Simon critiquing the competitors!Photo by Adam Besse

At 2pm the competition began!

Jon Rosner
Montreal, Quebec

Papa Josh
Pemberton, British Columbia

Armen Bazarian
Toronto, Ontario

You can click on the contestants name to view their performances on youtube!

So first up was Papa Josh, then Armen and Jon. This was a tough one to judge however the winner was….

“Papa Josh” – Congrats!!!

Prize: a $3000 BOSS/Roland Product Voucher and an all-expenses-paid trip to Frankfurt, Germany to be Canada’s representative at the International Finals in March 2012.

Jon took 2nd prize winning a $2000 Boss/Roland Product Voucher & Armen took 3rd winning a $1000 Boss/Roland Product Voucher!

Congrats to everyone and be sure if you are a looper to enter into next years competition!

Now I’m off to my next gig tonight…

Guitar Slinger – Playing guitar for the Vancouver Airport Authority

November 5, 2011 in Behind the scene at the Gigs, Guitar Slinger with 0 Comments

Last night I was playing guitar for an event at the old Vancouver Convention Center.

Let’s take a look at this latest Guitar Slinger video where I’ll take you behind the scenes at my gig!

Enjoy…

Next up I’ll take you behind the scenes judging the Roland Loop Station Championship!

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