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Our Senior member Sensible Jones has just announced the third member to become an MVC (Most Valuable Contributor) in GMC's history, no other than our dear....

Congrats Zakk!, you are always present in our boards and willing to help others, plus you are the official GMC Pick-up-Meister!, well deserved Enjoy!

MVC Badge

Becoming an MVC means a huge recognition, and also provides interesting advantages:

- As an MVC, you will get free GMC membership on a rolling 3 month basis - we will just check that you are still as active every 3 months before renewing your membership, so as long as you stay a top contributer, GMC will be free for life!
- You will also get a special MVC badge (similar to the Senior badges)

Maiden!

Maiden cover by Zen & Muris

Good things happen at GMC!
This story started when our metal-member Zen shared with us a great cover of Iron Maiden's track "Wasted Years", he did an excellent job recording it over a bass & drums backing found on the net, using two guitars in some parts. Only the vocals were missing, and that's when our dear Instructor Muris Varajic joined his Maiden tribute adding the vocals... with his guitar!

Don't miss this mix of guitar cover & "vocal" lead guitar that Zen & Muris created together, it's a blast!
Listen to it HERE - Audio only for the mix
Original (no vocal lead) video HERE

GMC Funnies!

GMC Funnies #57

Proffesional drawer Jason Nocera shares with us his new creations each weekend: funny cartoons featuring our members and their crazy stories are coming our way!

Challenge yourself!

• The idea comes from something found on this thread
• Forum discussion about this cartoon can be found here

Collabs

Check Our latest Collabs

Jonathan Burgos - Hard Rock 80s Collab: This one is based on Jonathan's lesson here, and aims to apply the concepts and scales (Bm) used there. Minor Blues works great too with the original backing track. Six members took part, and you can hear their takes in the final mix

Daniel realpe - Speed Metal: A soloing collab over a speed metal backing gathered five members to record this cool mix that Daniel put together.

Ivan Milenkovic - Soulful Collab: Ivan's collabs are a classic at GMC, and he just delivered his latest one, with all his soul this time! A laid back 80 bpm backing based on C-Am chords and our students takes served him to bring us this cool sounding final mix

GMC Guitar Theory Grimoire

The GMC Theory Grimoire

Just what we needed, the GMC Theory Grimoire is alive and available for everyone, free!

As you guys know, GMC Instructor Andrew Cockburn has written some excellent theory lessons which can be found and discussed in our Theory Board.

Member Loundzilla just put together all these lessons in a cool book file, so that we can take it with us anywhere or print it. Over 200 pages await featuring theory basics, notation, scales, modes, chords, harmonies... and much more!

It's useful and looks great, so don't hesitate and grab it now!

Be like Marty McFly!

Johnny B Goode Competition

Update: Hear the winner's take here, an amazing take by Staffay!

An unofficial competition took place last month, brough by GMCer IntemperateControl!

Ever felt like emulating Marty McFly in "Back to the future"? This is your chance to RoCk the house with this new challenge, give us your best Johnny B Goode cover, have loads of fun and earn some prizes too!

It all started in this thread where IntemperateControl shared with us his take, and somehow it all ended up in a cool competition awaiting for you.

As you guys well know this amazing song is original by Chuck Berry, and as such we can't provide the original tabs, but we are sure you guys can find them easily on the net. On top of that you can get a feel of the licks involved if you check GMC's Chuck Berry Style lesson by Jerry Arcidiacono. Just post your takes in youtube, and may the best Chuck-MartyMcFly-Berry win! B)

Let's Mini!

GMC Mini Reviews

Short reviews that go straight to the point about our favourite stomps, multi-fx units, guitars, strings and everything you can imagine! Let's put all our opinions & reviews about our gear into our knowledge base. Writing a mini-review takes just a few minutes but stays here forever to guide our fellow members in their next purchase to achieve the ultimate tone! :)

GMC Hurt My Fingers - Results

It was back in October that our member Staffay proposed a singular unofficial competition never before seen anyware on the net!, the GMC Hurt My Finger competition!

It seems our seasoned Staffay had a rough day with his guitars and ended up hurting his diamond-like fingers, so he decided to start a "Hurt Fingers" competition which would last until New Year's Eve. And he sure wasn't joking!, neither did some of our toughest members who decided to give it a go, and shared with us their poor shredded fingers! Here are the winners:

1st Place

1st Place: Hammerhead's Fingers Of Doom

2nd Place: MirkoSchmidt Fingers of Destruction

It's obvious that our members have worked hard (a bit too hard really!), so they deserved some nice prizes, and Staffay didn't dissapoint:

1st Prize: A 6 month GMC Subscription

2nd Place

2nd Prize: 3 V-picks from the glowing series

And these are the things that happen in our boards!

Keep an eye on the official Competitions Board, because new stuff is always coming, and we promise it won't hurt your finger's health... too much!

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-Trond & Kris work together on a song!

Free album by Staffay

Our awesome Staffay is one of our most prolific members and he has just released an album full of great tracks that he is sharing with all GMC members. You will find there many of the tracks that he has uploaded to our boards featuring a new remix & master, along with some extra surprises.

Staffay Album

Tracklist:

Demons in tango
Stop
Testify
I got you
My love is gone
Staffay's struggle
Talk to your daughter
Hoochie Coochie Man
All along the watchtower
Red House
Staffay.B.Goode

As you can see the album is a mix of original tracks and covers of famous songs. So what are we waiting for? Let's get the Album and the Cover Art too!

MTP

New MTP Pairings

Community Coordinator Chris Evans has just announced the new members that will take part on GMC's Mentored Training Program.

These members will be mentored individually by an Instructor for three months starting now. These are the Instructors and the members that they will be mentoring until the end of May:

Emir Hot (3 students)
Grindguer, Gus, rhoads

Ivan Milenkovic (5 students)
Fusar, earman, Kaznie_NL, Kristian Hyvarinen, Sensible Jones

Lian Gerbino (1 student)
Gitarrero

Ramiro Delforte (1 student)
Tomas Santa Clara

Adrian Figallo (1 student)
Joruus

Pedja Simovic (4 students)
stratman79, Loundzilla, Staffy, iamblackmo

The Uncreator

Awesome tracks by our members

Just lately our Senior member The Uncreator shared with us his new myspace site, Lascaille’s Shroud. Be sure to check it out, it's full of awesome tracks & interesting info to know him better.

We also have an amazing cover of "Freebird", brought by GMCer Gilmore, who also has recorded a great take on AC/DC's D.T. track from the movie Maximum Overdrive.

Last but not least an inspiring cover by Patrik Jezierski, who nailed Jack Thammarat's "Falling in love again". You can watch the video

Much more can be found in the Uploads forum

- Challenges
- Collabs & Video collabs
- Site improvements
- Virtual Bands achievements
- Member finished songs
- Uploads
- Instructor related news
- Competitions/prizes
- Pictures
- Personal news: you got some new gear? Improved your playing? Learnt something new? Played your first Gig?....

Help make the best GMC Journal and Newspaper database for all GMC members to enjoy! (And earn your Wiki:er Rank status in the meantime!)

All related info can be found in This Thread at our Wiki Forum

Using the search database to find old news:

All Wiki Journal articles are named as "Journal yyyy-mm-dd title", where yyyy is the year, mm the month and dd the day. This way if you wanted to know what happenned during december 2008 you can just type 2008-12 in the Wiki search field and all entries regarding those dates will appear. You can also just search anything that happenned during a certain year by typing "Journal 2009" for instance.

Using Wiki GMC Category to find old news:

Just click on this: GMC category link, and all articles ever published in our Journal will be listed under letter "J", following the naming instructions stated above. Piece of cake!