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“So you’ve decided you’re ready to dramatically up your BPM and blur up the fretboard with a flurry of well-placed angelic notes, but the truth is, dazzling an audience with effortless-sounding, supersonic guitar lines isn’t easy.” Duri Dhansay is one of our ‘Fastest Guitarist’ contest winners, officially called the Paul Bothner Music Fretboard Frenzy Competition. He clocked in a blinding victory, corroborated by his highly accurate, equally blinding speed in the branch level contest. He’s also a UCT graduate, composer, multi-instrumentalist, columnist and guitar teacher.
Read More: How to Speed Up Your Guitar Playing… the HARD Way – By Guitar Master Duri Dhansay
The good people over at Play Music Pickup magazine took the CR250 for a spin. They raved on about the sound quality, playability and price. Although it may look like many other guitars on the market today, the Cort CR250 blows the competition away and we’re sure you’ll agree.
Read More: Cort’s CR250 Rocks the U.K.
Bose has always been a name associated with two descriptors: compact and quality. They are a company who has built their reputation on producing products that, despite their diminutive nature, supply clear and powerful sound that rivals the best component systems many times their size.
Read More: Live Sound: Bose L1 Compact
‘Gandalf’s’ is situated in Observatory Lower main road in the mother city, Cape Town. The name was chosen as a theme based on the ‘Lord of the Rings’. The theme is emphasized by the brilliant artwork, design of the club and paintings on the walls of the ENTIRE club.
Read More: Gandalf’s, R.O.A.R. & Pandemonium – 3 Legendary Bastions of Metal in One
Heralded as the most exciting group to emerge in World Music in recent years, two-time Grammy Award-winning Soweto Gospel Choir uses RODE mics.
Read More: Soweto Gospel Choir and RODE Mics
Guitar maestro, Alex Hutchings was in Cape Town, courtesy of Roland and Boss, to showcase current and ‘state of the art’ products, to a captivated audience. He unveiled two new BOSS products, available soon: the Boss Feedbacker/Booster (FB-2) and the Boss Combo Overdrive (BC-2).
Read More: Alex Hutchings Blows the South Easter Away – Review by Matthew Vismer
Big screen and television star, Gary Sinise is also a musician. While studying under the guidance of legendary bassist, Jeff Berlin, Sinise had an opportunity to play a Cort bass from Jeff’s collection. In appreciation of the work he has done to support veterans of the United States military, Cort presented Gary with a Cort Artisan A4 bass.
Read More: Cort Honours CSI:NY Star – Gary Sinise with an Artisan A4 Bass
Avant-garde and hypnotic, the sound that is Gazelle, transcends simple notions of musical genre. Taking their infamously eclectic sound with them, on the next phase of their global music explosion, Gazelle turns traditional African music on its head. The ‘Kalahari Safari’ tour saw the band performing at some of the most exclusive and trendy clubs and festivals in Europe:from Printemps de Bourges Festival, Oslolive Festival, Magazini Generali in Milan to Social Club, Neavou Casino and LeBaron in Paris , Cookies in Berlin to Sketch in London, Hive in Zurich, Copenhagen Jazz House, RUST, Sodra Teatern in Stockholm and a host of others. Gazelle have taken their sound around South Africa and beyond, setting the global stage alight.
Read More: Gazelle – African Dance Music – Powered by Roland
Salmon Fikster attending Pionier School was born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, making him blind since birth. Salmon’s blindness has not stopped him from expressing his musical side, playing the Piano, Guitar and Singing.
Read More: Paul Bothner Music donates a brand new guitar to blind musician
Duri Dhansay is one of our ‘Fastest Guitarist’ contest winners, officially called the Paul Bothner Music Fretboard Frenzy Competition. At this event he clocked in a blinding victory, corroborated by his highly accurate, equally blinding speed in the branch level championships, the highest in the country to date. He’s also a UCT graduate, composer, multi-instrumentalist, columnist and guitar teacher.
Read More: Chord Construction Demystified… By ‘Fretboard Frenzy’ Winner – Duri Dhansay
It’s time to play it loud. And proud. Fender Premium Audio has finally hit the streets. The car-audio industry is describing this as “one of the best” car-audio systems. The Fender Premium Audio System, featured exclusively in the 2012 Volkswagen Passat, Beetle, Jetta and Jetta GLI, is the first of its kind boasting nine speakers and 400 watts of power.
Read More: Fender and Volkswagen Partner Together!!
The latest review of their five string A5 Custom Z, in Bass Player magazine, proves once again, why Cort guitars and basses are the choice of musicians around the world
Read More: Bass Player Magazine Raves About the Cort A5
With the right Duncan in your axe, you’ll smash through that wall of sound-trouble you’ve had!!! For those of you who’ve been struggling to get hold of Seymour Duncan pickups, you’ll be pleased to know that they’re now very readily available!!!
Read More: Seymour Duncan Pickups Now More Readily Available!!!
Want to know more about gear and keen on finding what’s available locally? Here’s a list of manufacturers whom we highly recommend. Please note that because so much is readily available locally, a list like this could be very, very long ideed. Please bear in mind that we can access much more…
Read More: Paul Bothner Music’s Recommended Manufacturers List
The winner is… James Klein!!! Seen here with Paul Bothner Music’s Heidi Odendal (centre) and the Lucky Draw Competition prize-winner, Gavin Jacobs (right). James goes through to the next round, to be held on Saturday 3 December, at the World of Yamaha Theatre, in Johannesburg. Read more…
Read More: Yamaha Key Performance of Note Competition – Reviewed by Heidi Odendal
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