Tuesday, June 24, 2008
[NEWSFLASH] HAROLD HUNTER x ZOO YORK
On May 17th the 2nd Annual Harold Hunter Day brought together NYC’s skateboarding community for a positive day of shredding in honor of the late, great Harold Hunter. More than five-hundred skaters and spectators swarmed the Manhattan Bridge Skatepark for a heated six-hour session with beats provided by New York’s finest, Pete Rock. Afterward, the masses flocked to KCDC Skateshop where, in true Harold form, the party bumped late into the night.
In celebration of this noteworthy occasion and to keep Harold’s spirit strong, the non-profit Harold Hunter Foundation has teamed up with The Zoo York Institute to release a limited edition HH Day II commemorative deck and t-shirt featuring Harold pics by long-time friend and acclaimed photographer, Giovanni Reda.
Both items are now available only at select New York shops including Rival, Autumn, Everything Must Go, Richmond Hood Company, Blades, DQM, and Homage. Additionally, a special bundled kit including a deck, t-shirt and signed copy of Reda’s “Harold Hunter: The Book” is available exclusively at KCDC. Proceeds from the sale of all HH Day II commemorative gear will be donated to the Harold Hunter Foundation which will use the funds to send six underprivileged NYC kids to Camp Woodward this summer.
A complete event wrap-up is available at hhday.blogspot.com, and a Harold Hunter Day II podcast shot and produced by RB Umali will release in late June.
Online acoustic guitar lessons give you the flexibility to work at your own pace. Make a folder and save all of these acoustic lessons together. Be organized and your acoustic guitar lessons will be more productive. Keep your songs together and your technical exercises together. Over the years I have found that for the most part, the more organized a student is, the more they learn.
Another great benefit of online acoustic guitar lessons is you get to work on what you want when you want. If you want to spend all your time working on your repertoire, you can. Be careful though to not let too many days pass without doing some technical studies. I would say no more than 3 days in a row only doing songs.
The first things you are going to want to do are getting your chords together and build your repertoire. Put together a little list of songs that are easy to play. There are thousands. Here are a couple of examples.
Wild Thing: A D E D
Knocking On Heaven's Door: G D A- G D C
Add these to your list and build on it. Memorize the songs so you can go to a jam and teach others. Then they teach you the songs they know. Before you know it, you have a huge repertoire going. Make your goal to learn 3 tunes a week. Do this each and every week. Imagine I year from now. Also every time you go to a jam session you will probably pick up more than 3 new tunes. Add that to the three tunes you learned on your own! You can even be the life of the party when you take out the guitar and show everyone what you have been doing. Again imagine I year from now.
Learn basic blues progressions as well. This will give you hours of jam material. Learn the shuffle rhythm too, as many guitar players will know how to do this and everyone can play off each other. It's a great addition to the jam!
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