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BBC news published an article with some more details on the plans of the GGF with The Pirate Bay. “We are going to set up a system where the file-sharer actually makes money,” stated Hans Pandeya, the chief executive in Global Gaming Factory X, in his exclusive interview with BBC. “One of the biggest hurdles in overcoming illegal file-sharing was that there was zero cost to the users, while legitimate sites required users to pay for content. The only way to make something more attractive than free was to pay users to share files.”

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Great news arrived about a week ago when Renoise finished it’s another development cycle. This time the release bears the version number of 2.1 and as most important feature, brings rewire support. Those who are not interested in rewire, including linux users where rewire is not available anyway, won’t be left dissapointed either: amongst other things Renoise 2.1 brings cool new live performance features, which are also extremely useful for arrangement development and idea testing. Real creativity booster in my case. Linuxers are also given JACK transport support, which replaces some (before missing) features from the Rewire support on other platforms.

So I thought to look into the software for a bit and give my opinion about it.

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I am going to start off with guitar practice tutorials for beginners. As experienced guitar player as I am, I can tell you lots of inside secrets in many different genres of guitar play. Let’s start off with the king of the guitar music, the Black Metal.

This guide is a step by step tutorial into the world of Black Metal guitar play and will definitely be a big eye-opener for many black metal beginners.

First step: Corpsepaint

Before you start your regular practice routine, the most important thing is to apply corpsepaint. First, start off with covering your whole face with white paint. Let it try a bit, and then draw sad face with black paint. Add some finishing touches like random lines over your face and maybe pentagram, 666 and few reversed crosses. If your corpsepaint doesn’t look like shown on figure 1.1, then smear the paint all over your face and say that you like Primitive Pagan Metal better anyway.

Fig 1.1: Correctly applied corpsepaint

Step two: Set up the sound

Pick up your guitar and connect it to amp. Turn the gain all the way up. Turn bass all the way down, treble up. Make sure it’s loud and screetching enough.

Step three: Play guitar

Strum one (or two if you are more advanced) string as fast as you can while looking grim and necro. You can change chords if you want to, as long as you don’t do them too often. For beginners, playing open string will do just fine and gives specially primitive, grim and evil sound to your music.

Additional tricks

To add more evilness into the music, scream as loud as you can with high pitched voice. This technique is known in black metal circles as “Vocals”.  If your guitar playing doesn’t sound too good, then scream louder! If your hands get tired of constant picking, take a sip of beer, scream: “SATAN, GWAARRRRRR, SATAN!” or something in that direction, then stare at the wall for few seconds with grim face, say “GWARRHH” and continue playing.

That’s it. By following these directions, you should be up on the stage in no time, and let’s not forget the crazy parties at the backstage with chicks and booze! Although, black metal people don’t get too many chicks… But they are too grim anyway to want any, there will be lots of booze though!