Raphael Fraser: guitarist turns blogger

Spotted on I heart guitar. A common theme for web 2.0 guitar players... add blogging and bring fans to your site to find out about your musical ideas and themes. Raphael Fraser joins the likes of Mark McGuigan in this intrepid adventure:

I've only just started a blog, and am just feeling it out at this stage - it will primarily be music and guitar-related, and I hope might offer some useful links and tips, as well as having a bit of my own music in there.

Basically I'm thinking it will have a number of aspects: Yes there will be a section and posts for my music; there will also be some gear/recording stuff I think, as I get a fair number of comments/questions about my tone; there'll also be links to cool stuff I find around the place; and perhaps a few tips/lessons thrown in there at times.

So who am I to do this, and why might people want to read it? Well, people read all kinds of crap on the interwebs :-p Being serious, I've been playing the guitar since I was 11 (26 years ago), and seriously since age 15. Prior to taking up the guitar I played piano, and in-between 11 and 15 I played a bunch of brass instruments. I studied music at school, and took guitar lessons from a jazz guitarist for the first couple of (serious) years.

What that all boils down to is a fairly solid grounding in music in general, and a lot of experience with the guitar specifically. During that time I've done quite a bit of developing and changing, and thinking about playing, practising, and learning - as well as tone tweaking and music in general. I have a fairly wide listening palette, and think I could bring some cool things to others' ears and awareness.

Plus they'll get the odd divertimento by way of gardening, astronomy, cool photos, science and medicine ...

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Here's Raphael Fraser's latest video:

Lady (original song)