The Fretlight Guitar Blog: Recent Comments

Comment on Price Breaks While Times Are Tough

David Labay — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:54:22 GMT

Hello Rusty,
I must agree with Randy as well. I have mailed you a letter with the color code for the different notes showing anyone how to "upgrade" the Fretlight Guitar to take pitch into consideration and applying some color changing LED lights. As you probably know these lights just have one or more semiconductor chips that produce different colors. Real color changing LED lights incorporate several diodes into one unit making it hard to distinguish where the light is being emitted. Therefore different tuning systems could be handled on the Fretlight Guitar by using these color changing LEDs.

Colorizing a fretboard may sound like a novel idea but not to someone who cannot distinguish between pitches on a aural level. Color is emotion and music is the art of expressing emotion. At the present time I know color changing LEDS are expensive to utilize. These are practical times and I do realize it might not be practical to explore this idea yet. However, as an inventor you should also realize the obvious improvement it would have on the Fretlight Guitar. You would open up the whole world to a new way of looking at pitch. Once again I thank you for your time and appreciate the wonderful Fretlight Guitar you have created.

Comment on Defining Your Influences

James — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:24:48 GMT

No style of music could have existed without imitation in one form or another. It's learning to explore after stylist identification is made that we create a name for ourselves. I also agree with piter that examples are in films ( http://www.rapidsloth.com ) where imitation can be seen frequently.

Comment on Organizing Your Chords - Part Three

Jonny — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:44:17 GMT

Do you also know any good country songs that are based on the use of Open Chord Variations?

Comment on "Fretlight Video Riffs" Are Here!

Nate Comp — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:17:55 GMT

Hey DNO, check out this week's riff :)

http://fretlightriff.blogspot.com/

Comment on The Moods Of The Modes

Rapidshare SE — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:46:45 GMT

Thanks for a nice explanation. It is great that you've mentioned what the learner should pay attention to. As for me I also concentrated on the right position of my fingers without real listening to the sound. Besides, thanks for the lists of the songs. There are a lot of songs which are my favourite and I'll surely enjoy to play.

Comment on Organizing Your Chords - Part Three

Bill — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:14:12 GMT

I tried it on my guitar and it was great so thx for the post!

Comment on Naming Those 'Mystery Chords' With Guitarz 6.6

Keyboardist Wanted — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:49:23 GMT

Thats really very nice blog, I am impressed.

Comment on "Fretlight Video Riffs" Are Here!

Todd — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:10:06 GMT

Great to see the Fret Light Riffs! I'd love to contribute some as well :)

Comment on "Fretlight Video Riffs" Are Here!

Jamorama Guitar — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:21:23 GMT

Haha! These are sweet! Very much looking forward to the next riff you dish out.

Comment on Organizing Your Chords - Part Four

Ripped Abs — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:14:45 GMT

I love these power chords as it's possible to get a really good rock song going relatively easily. The riffs I find more challenging. Just need to practice more.