Between Broadway chanteuse Mia Gentile’s vocal mimicry powers (Kinky Boots, Forbidden Broadway) and songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Roger Klug’s solo Indie Pop exploits, MISSYFIT has a built-in propensity for careening wildly and effortlessly between musical genres, inventing personas and characters along the way. So it shouldn’t be much of a surprise then that the duo’s first EP release […]
MISSYFIT – Glad To See You Go 2020!
Our MISSYFIT Monday Zoom meeting turned into an audio-visual vomiting up of 2020 anxiety, depression, and isolation fatigue. Enjoy! Happy New Year! #ramones #happynew year And the after-the-fact behind-the-scenes documentary:
Happy Holidays from the Island of MISSYFIT Toys!
Despite the cold chilly world outside, MISSYFIT is in the holiday spirit! We may even drop something before the New Year, who knows?
Roger’s Guitar Corner: Series 1, Episode 8
Play Guitar In 7 Days! Lesson Eight: “When Dreams Dry Up” Unlike campfire chords, which can only be played next to the nut (the thingy between the fingerboard and headstock; see Lesson 6), a moveable chord shape doesn’t use open strings, and therefore can be transposed to any fret. This is how you […]
Roger’s Guitar Corner: Series 1, Episode Seven
Play Guitar In 7 Days! Lesson Seven: “Your Diary” We now come to the subject of lead guitar, known in the United Kingdom as “widdly-widdly.” Though most guitar solos these days last three to seven seconds, there was a time (see the 1970s) when guitarists were allowed the freedom to explore musical vistas, […]
Roger’s Guitar Corner: Series 1, Episode 6
Play Guitar In 7 Days! Lesson Six: “Hi-Hat” More people have quit playing guitar because of the F chord than for any other reason! Don’t let this happen to you! An easy way to make peace with F is to start with the F5 chord. (Students […]
Roger’s Guitar Corner: Series 1, Episode 5
Play Guitar In 7 Days! Lesson Five: “The Day I Had My Brain Removed” Sometimes nothing can take the place of good old “campfire chords,” the chord shapes most first-year students learn and embrace, such as C, Am, and G7. The combination of ringing open strings and fretted notes in these chords produces […]
Roger’s Guitar Corner: Series 1, Episode 4
Play Guitar In 7 Days! Lesson Four: “For The Kids” Droning is a technique in which an open string (a string with no fingers on it) is played along with a fretted string (a string with a finger pressed down on it). Usually the finger moves up and down the fingerboard in some […]
Roger’s Guitar Corner: Series 1, Episode 3
Play Guitar In 7 Days! Lesson Three: “About Time” In the days before digital sampling and looping, if someone wanted to quote a piece of music they had to learn how to play it on a musical instrument. Quoting musical passages can be an effective weapon in your musical arsenal, as long as […]
Roger’s Guitar Corner: Series 1, Episode 2
Two images from More Help For Your Nerves. Is it my sick mind or do these resemble female and male anatomy? Play Guitar In 7 Days! Lesson Two: “An Artist In The Field” People often ask: why is the guitar tuned a certain way? The answer is that it isn’t; unlike a piano, […]