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BACK TO SCHOOL!!! ...Make Your Music Go Further... Valid Until End of February 2012 or While Stocks Last!! Don't Be Caught Without our 3 for 2 Specials on Select Items and Much Much More!!!

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With our Zildjian drum stick Z-Cards, each set of sticks you buy will be indicated with a dedicated Zildjian sticker. When the 9 sets of required drum sticks are bought, you receive a 10th set free!!

On 2 Feb, David Bobby gave a workshop at our N1 Value Centre branch on the new syllabus and format of this series.This new set of ground breaking Rock & Pop Music Qualifications is SAQA ACCREDITED... The Rock & Pop closing dates and fees are the same as those for Trinity College and the exam sessions will be the same as the Trinity practical exam sessions.

This year's lineup of 20 artists includes the massively popular Fender endorsee, Dan Patlansky and legends such as Vusi Mahlasela, Piet Botha and The Blues Broers, featuring guitar god Albert Frost. Other artists include the divas Natasha Meister, Charlie King, In the Deep End and youngbloods Hellfire Blues Club, Sixgun Gospel and Crimson House Blues. Besides offering entry to the area's major tourist attractions, general festival facilities include a 1050 square metre marquee, for shade, PLUS safe parking, a buddy-bus to get you safely home, a kiddies club, arts stalls and more!

Most Awesome News! The drum world's living legend, Barry Van Zyl will be introducing a new and exciting Drum Programme, exclusively at the Campus Of Performing Arts (COPA). Much lauded and studied by contemporaries at festivals, as a session player and the like, this highly noted master stylus of the laws of groove and doctor of technique in a vast range of styles, is most well known for his more commercial work with the legendary Johnny Clegg,

Akai Professional has a history of delivering sought-after, groundbreaking guitar effects. From the Shred-O-Matic, an outrageous multi-mode tube/solid-state distortion pedal with expression control, to our most famous pedal to date, the DEEP IMPACT SB1 Synthbass Pedal, Akai Pro has been bringing innovative and unique stomp boxes to guitarists for years.

MPC Fly merges unmatched Akai Professional technology with the power of your iPad 2, embodying legendary capabilities that have made the MPC an industry standard like real MPC pads, MPC Note Repeat and MPC Swing.

Hand-held field recorders have been hot commodities for musicians, recording engineers, and sound designers for years. Today, the mercury rises in this dynamic market with the debut of the game-changing R-26. This innovative recorder is portable yet loaded with first-class, professional features, the likes of which the industry has not seen before. Capture live performances with the innovative SIMULTANEOUS external mic and built in mic signal input, record important speeches, lectures and presentations, or take the R-26 into the inner city or deep forest for pristine field capture.

Tackle Our CLEARANCE SALE Prices!!! Demo stock, shop-soiled and end of range items! Look out for our Green Price Tags in store and pick up a last-chance bargain! Limited stock! First come, first served!

The Akai Professional Blues Overdrive is an essential ingredient in the Analogue Custom Shop product line. Blues Overdrive’s heavy-duty polished stainless-steel housing is deceptively simple in appearance, wonderfully deep in appealing, warm tone. True-bypass switching is combined with adjustable Level and Drive knobs for just the right amount of precision control.

Designed jointly by Seymour Duncan and humbucker inventor, the late Seth Lover. Just like the original 1955 P.A.F.s, the SH-55 has a slightly microphonic quality, giving blues, jazz and classic rock a husky tone, akin to the great masters of the styles. Used by Joe Perry (Aerosmith), Gary Rossington & Rickey Medlocke (Lynyrd Skynyrd), Blues Saraceno, Dweezil Zappa, Sheryl Crow (neck & bridge), George Pajon Jr. (Black-Eyed Peas) and Steve Stevens amongst others.

The Zildjian Gen16 AE (Acoustic Electric) Cymbal is now available at Paul Bothner Music. Unlike most existing electronic percussion systems, the AE Cymbal is not a sample trigger device. Instead, it’s an actual cymbal, and plays like one, but is much softer, utilizing a unique dual microphone and DSP engine to amplify and model the cymbal’s output. The Acoustic Electric Cymbal is capable of creating a wide range of sounds, from that of a classic Zildjian cymbal to some very non-traditional sounds.

Yngwie Malmsteen - "I found something I never thought was possible: the best of all worlds, the power, the definition, the violin-tone, the sustain, the bite, and everything". Hum-cancelling single-coil-sized pickup based on the original Seymour Duncan Stack® pickup design. Recommended for rock, neo-classical, shred, hard rock, power metal, and heavy metal.

Cort G260s - Swamp ash bodies, Wilkinson Bridges, Seymour Duncan designed pickups & a distinct wood grain surface. Impeccably crafted, optimal tone, reliablility & an accommodating price.

Super-Sonic™ amplifiers are the favourite tool of pro guitarists across the gamut of styles. Glorious Fender® clean tones; expressive modern high-gain tones - a no-nonsense tube amp. Its vintage channel is based on two legendary Fender favourites. The burn channel ignites with overdrive flavours ranging from bluesy to flame-throwing. Supersonics have increased bass response and fatter tone. Heavily saturated tube overdrive and sustain can be fine-tuned without masking the tonal character of your guitar.

For superior power and sound quality, this amp takes first place. Its a serious piece of kit that has a host of features that you will need when out on the road or recording. Dual input, Bass, treble, and twin parametric Mid, switchable compressor and limiter, DI socket, Tuner output and FX loop. It packs a massive 300 watts output stage that can deliver into a 4 ohm load, hook it up to a Laney RB115 to really blow your band mates, and the audience, away!

The Vampyre Dark Lord is the first bass worldwide to be especially built for F sharp F# tuning and is being manufactured as a regular, production Warwick bass. With its sandblasted Ovangkol body with French Ash top in a sandwich construction, its 35"-scale length and the active electronics, this Monster meets the needs of those who love to dwell in the lower realms of tone in terms of optics and sound.

Indulge your senses! The award winning HOG (Harmonic Octave Generator) is a totally polyphonic guitar synthesizer offering complete control of up to 10 interval pitches. NO glitches and NO special pickup needed. Generate extreme sub bass to powerful multi-octave chords. Convert your 6 string into a 12 string, create a realistic B3 organ. Amazing on guitar but works well with any instrument.

Shure's high quality systems are professional and reliable to the point where some of the top performers in the industry are satisfied. Better quality sound and very little chance of audio drop outs...

From 1974 through 1989 Max would become part of one of the most popular musical forces in the nation: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. Numerous albums and more than a few hits later Bruce broke up the band and Max found his way onto television as the bandleader and drummer for Late Night with Conan O'Brien.

Gene Simmons Accepts No Substitute: There is no one mightier than the God of Thunder himself, Gene Simmons. Check out the latest promotional videos coming out in 2012. Both videos feature the rock star himself telling you exactly why you need to own his signature model basses. Gene accepts no substitute. Should you?

New features: True stereo inputs and outputs; up to three hours onboard stereo recording & loop storage... a marked upgrade to its predecessor's mono I/O & 16 minutes of mono recording. The RC-30 has a new dual phrase loop feature that lets users create and play 2 independent stereo loop phrases in sync. The LOOP FX feature lets users process their loop recordings in real time, plus 99 memories for onboard loop storage and an LED memory indicator. Plus, a USB 2.0 port lets users swap and manage WAV audio loops. Phantom Power for condenser mics and onboard rhythms to play along to...

"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.

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.