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Archive for June, 2008


History of the Jackson Warrior Electric Guitar

by Vincent Roarden

When the 1990’s began, the Jackson Guitar’s superstat design was known all over the rock n roll universe. It was a drastic and radical design that was copied by all other guitar producers like Fender, Gibson, Ibanez and Kramer.

You may be surprised to know that the original founder of Jackson Guitar didn’t design the famous Warrior Guitar. Instead, Grover Jackson left the company in 1989 and it was a man named Mikey Wright who was left to design the new and creative Warrior. The new design was radically different to the superstrat design which had made Jackson Guitar famous and therefore was a risky adventure.

The first Jackson Warrior rolled off the production line in 1990 only to be discontinued a year later. With no less than 5 pointy appendages (four on the body, one at the headstock) the Warrior was amply named. The design has been called aggressive and obnoxious.

Jackson made two types of Warrior guitars - the Warrior and Warrior Pro. The plain warrior was constructed in the USA, while the Pro was produced in Japan. The only difference between the two versions was that country in which they were made.

The Pro model came in the following colors: Candy Blue , Snow White Pearl, Ferrari Red, Midnight Black and Pearl Yellow. The USA models offered a bigger options base: Pearl White, Fire Crackle, Snow White, Midnight Black, Candy Red, Metallic Black, Eerie Dess Swirl, Pearl Yellow, Tie Die, Ferrari Red and Metallic Electric Blue.

In 2001, a decade since the original Warrior was produced, Jackson re-released the Warrior model. They retail for about $1,200.

The overseas made Warrior retail for about $400 and are simple bolt on models with a wide range of pickups. The USA made Warrior is more expensive, reflecting the Duncan pickups, Floyd Rose tremolos and other superior qualities. The US model however, doesn’t have the active circuitry, slanted fingerboard and pickup as the previous models did.

Despite the minor changes to the original design, these new Warriors are on par with the original models and the quality of the manufacturing is excellent.

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Creative Cooking School To Develop Fine Cooking Skills

by David Swanson

Enrolling in a cooking class is one of the best ways to improve your culinary skills. Whether you are a seasoned professional, or just starting out, every one can benefit from cooking lessons. You may be able to find a culinary school in your neighborhood to help expand your outlook on food and how it is prepared. You may want to take just one class on a new dish or technique. There are many specialty shops that offer creative cooking classes and on occasion your local upscale grocery store may even offer them.

Learning to use a variety of fresh ingredients instead of canned, packaged or frozen can not only make your meals taste better but they will also be healthier. A cooking school also teaches how to properly slice, dice, and chop (without loosing a finger!) A cooking class will add to your vocabulary many new words such as “demi glace,” “gratineed,” and “braising” etc. If you have the right tools and techniques you can serve up some top notch dishes. Won’t your family and friends be surprised.

Several well known and respected chefs now have many of their recipes available online or in beautiful cookbooks. Many cooking schools have been started by some of these cooks allowing you to learn more about them as well as their unique styles of cooking. A creative cooking school will encourage you to step out of the box and develop your own fine cooking skills. Perhaps someday we will see you on TV slicing and dicing your way to fame.

Assembling a simply scrumptious meal may not require as many ingredients, cost as much or take as long as you had always imagined. Purchasing a frozen TV dinner and cooking it in the microwave may take the same amount of time as a gourmet meal.

Cooking classes also offer you a way to learn how to shop for and prepare many different ethnic foods. Recipes from far away places are a great way to bring your family together while enjoying preparing and trying them right in your own home. Save the money that would have been spent at a an ethnic restaurant and cook together as a family with the tools and techniques taught at a culinary class.

By attending a local creative cooking school you will meet men and women in your area who share your love of cooking and desire to develop fine cooking skills. Working close together in a large shared kitchen will add to your social skills if you are considering opening a restaurant.

There is another added bonus to cooking classes and schools that you may want to consider. If creative cooking is your passion, these classes could open you up to a new career or business idea. I have met people that came for a specific purpose which had nothing to do with a business, ended up taking what they learned in class and put it to work for them. While at first they did it part-time, they eventually found they had their own very successful business.

Whether you want to entertain personal friends and family, start a catering business or open a restaurant, the place to start is at a culinary school. You will learn how to shop, budget, store foods to last longer, and use one ingredient to make several different dishes. Make your dream a reality!

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Run Your Car With Water Fuel - What’s The Oil Industry Hiding?

by Matthew Loop, DC

Everyone is concerned over the rising cost of gas. It seems that every week, the cost of gas goes significantly higher, causing a great amount of stress on one’s wallet - all while the gas companies continue to make record profits. Big Oil seems to be the only people not affected by the high gas costs, even though they are the one’s causing the problems, and politicians appear to be sitting on their hands not doing anything about it.

Luckily, an alternative fuel method is slowly being distributed online that provides a way to run your car on water, allowing you to save thousands of dollars every year at the gas tank, as well as provide some relief for the polluted environment. These systems allow you car not only to run on gas, but also on standard H2O, like that you get from your sink. Your car will become more environmentally friendly and you will be saving so much money it will be as though the gas prices were back at 1.00 again.

Oil companies have been preventing this information from reaching the public for years, because if it were to hit the mainstream, oil companies would lose their record profits. But this technology is so powerful that it continues to permeate through word of mouth as more and more people search for ways to avoid these high gas prices.

The technology to run your car on water, also known as HHO gas (for H20, or 2 Hydrogen, 1 Oxygen), has actually been around for awhile. By simply hooking up a small, homemade machine to your car’s battery, you can convert everyday tap water into a working Hydrogen current that helps improve your gas mileage by as much as 300%.

In addition, with all of the news about global warming, many people enjoy the idea of converting their car to run on HHO gas because of the end result of the hydrogen combustion is, essentially, plain water. Ergo, by using an engine that runs on HHO gas, you are able to do less harm to the environment while stills saving money at the gas tank.

This will provide you with no only relief at the pump, but relief for your mind as well. As more and more people switch to this type of gas supplement and start to power their cars on water, the savings at the pump will be thousands of dollars per year, and the savings for the environment even more valuable. And best of all, you can put this technology together in no time, at home, using tools and equipment you already have.

The tools used to create HHO gas are so easy to find, that you can get their parts for less than 100 dollars at any local hardware supply store, regardless of where you live. And making the engine supplement can take as little time as one hour, but certainly not more than one day, so once you get the parts you can get started right away creating a car that runs on water in no time at all. Find yourself a good how-to guide and you are all set for creating a car that runs on water and saving thousands of dollars at the gas tank.

Gas companies are likely to continue trying to profit off of your misfortune. But if you start using a water car system right away, building an easy to make, easy to use hydrogen fuel system in your garage, you can be ready to start saving money and the environment in no time.

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classical guitar tabs

by paul green

Guitar music has it’s own form of notation, called a tab, or tablature. Tabs are different from standard musical notation because they do not use staffs, ledger lines, key signatures, or notes. For this reason, acoustic guitar tabs are beneficial because they allow you to learn how to play the instrument without also having to learn to read music. Tabs may also be used as notation for other stringed instruments.

The form of musical notation specific to the guitar is acoustic guitar tabs, or tablature. Each chord is notated with one tab, a small chart of the guitar strings themselves. The string at the top of the diagram is the one furthest from your body as you hold the guitar. Each string will show a number, which is the fret you should hold to create that chord. If you see a zero, that means an open string. An X means that string should be muffled.

The area between the two metal bars on the neck or fingerboard of a guitar is called a fret, if you are not familiar with this. On an acoustic guitar, there are usually 21 to 24 frets. The dots on the frets are visual guides for your convenience when playing.

Take a look at the acoustic guitar tab and if all of the numbers are listed one after the other and all on one line, the numbers indicate the fret to use on that string; only pluck that particular string. Numbers that are noted one after the other indicate that you play one note at a time. If there is a number on each line and the numbers are stacked, one on top of the other; then the acoustic guitar tab is saying play all the notes simultaneously, in other words, strumming all six strings.

When researching acoustic guitar tabs you will find things like hammer-ons, pull-offs, bends and slides. The letter “h” notates hammer-ons. This might be noted on a line as 7h9. Pull-offs are noted in the same way by the letter “p”. Bends are notated by “b”s and slides, “/” (slash).

After you’ve gotten accustomed to the notion of reading music by string position, search online for basic acoustic guitar tabs and find a tune you’re really familiar with to practice on. While the approach may be new to you, you’ll see that you can pick up its melody quickly this way now that you can read tabs.

Listening to a song while you are trying to learn it makes it simpler to learn. Details and rhythms that you think you remember will pop out and help you. Learning the guitar using acoustic guitar tabs makes it quite a bit more fun. It won’t take long to learn several songs, and you will be able to play them for your friends at parties, or while you’re alone so you can enjoy them in private.

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easy acoustic guitar tabs

by paul green

When you play acoustic guitar, you have the advantage of a totally different, and much easier, kind of music notation. No more notes and staffs and time signatures. This is simpler and more intuitive. It’s acoustic guitar tabs, which are notations based on the positions of the instrument’s strings. The greatest advantage is not having to learn to read music the traditional way. A number of string instruments utilize tabs.

Acoustic guitar tabs are a form of visual musical notation . The acoustic guitar tab has a diagram of guitar strings. The first string is the top one and the sixth string is the bottom, these are represented by the lines. There are numbers on the lines which tell you what fret to play. An open string is represented by a zero (0). A muffled string is noted by an X.

The area between the two metal bars on the neck or fingerboard of a guitar is called a fret, if you are not familiar with this. On an acoustic guitar, there are usually 21 to 24 frets. The dots on the frets are visual guides for your convenience when playing.

Check out acoustic guitar tabs and you’ll notice that the numbers run all in one line, indicating which fret to use on the one string you’re plucking. Those numbers tell you that you’re supposed to be playing each of them individually. If there’s a number on each line and the numbers are on top of each other, then you’re supposed to play the notes simultaneously, strumming away on all six of your strings.

When reading acoustic guitar tabs, you may come across things like, hammer-on, pull-offs, bends and slides. A hammer-on may be represented by something such as “7h9,” with the “h” being the notation for the hammer-on. A pull-off would be noted in the same way, with a “p” instead of an “h.” A bend is noted by a simple “b” and a slide would be represented by a “/.”

After you’ve gotten accustomed to the notion of reading music by string position, search online for basic acoustic guitar tabs and find a tune you’re really familiar with to practice on. While the approach may be new to you, you’ll see that you can pick up its melody quickly this way now that you can read tabs.

It is best that you hear the song you are trying to learn as it makes the learning easier. While you can remember how a song goes, listening to it while you practice can help you with the rhythm and detail. It can be tremendously fun to learn how to play a guitar when you utilize acoustic guitar tabs. Before you realize it, you have many songs in your repertoire that you can play at parties to impress friends, or for your sole pleasure.

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