Parsing JSON in a proper way requires representing the JSON data in a structured format so that the language can find out which fields have to be parsed and which type they are. The Rust way of representing the structured data are so called structs . We could make appropriate structs manually, but thanks to the great online converter, transform.tools , we can generate the structs very easily. In this article we will parse data from songsterr.com , a web site with guitar tabs. Let’s make the request to their API. Just click here and look at the data in your browser. Scarry? Not really, just copy all data and paste here at the left hand side box. Rust structs should appear on the right side almost immediately.
Guitarists are fans of loud amplifiers and music in general, but this is not the case with all neighbors. 😆
I started silent practicing with plugging the headphones to my Fender Mustang and this worked well, of course, but I always had to seat close to the amplifier which was not that practical. By searching the Internet I found out about different Vox headphones amplifiers which offer just one kind of sound so if you want to have for example clean, blues and metal sounds, you need to buy three different devices. This also didn’t seem practical even though these devices are quite cheap.
This problem was bugging me for quite a while and today I finally decided to address it. There are lot of advices online to try to run Firefox in safe mode and see if that fixes the problem, so I tried that first but it didn’t help. Safe mode actually just turns off extensions, but in my case it didn’t help.
I have heard many advises that the best way to learn to play music and visualize it would be to play keyboard, so I decided to get one. Of course, I didn’t have plans to become a great keyboard or piano player, nothing like that, but just to get one for fun. I know about Yamaha, Roland and Korg from my childhood but again, after so many years I had to discover what would be the best buy for a beginner. After lot of readings I came up to Yamaha PSR-E373. I almost bought it, but somehow I continued researching Yamaha’s models and found out EZ-300. This is almost the same keyboard as PSR-E373, but with illuminated keys as a help to learn playing. The price difference was minor, so I decided to go for EZ-300. It arrived on 01.06.2021.
Even though I have a tuner on my modulated amplifier, I wanted to get a clip tuner so that I can use it on any guitar including acoustic ones. After some research I found out the one which shows tuning of all six strings at once. If there is some string out of tune, you can immediately see which one and quickly tune it up. The name of this magical tuner is TC Electronic Polytune Clip. It comes in two colors, black and white, but I decided to get the black one. Somehow I think that white gadgets are too fancy and the color probably influenced by Apple.
Although my son had Fender Mustang I, I wanted more trendy amplifier with wi-fi and bluetooth features being able to download the effects and so on. After some research, I found out that there are two options, either Boss Katana or some newer Fender Mustang model. First I looked at the Fender GT series and later found out that there is even newer line, GTX. After reading some reviews and comparisons, I decided to get Mustang GTX50, but then I realized that more powerful model GTX100 comes with the GTX-7 foot switch and that the price difference is not that big. Yes, I got GTX100 even though I do not need 100W in my apartment, my neighbors would not like that I use each watt. It arrived the same day as my Stratocaster.
As a beginner in playing guitar for the second time in my life, I searched for help online and found Fender Play service. I subscribed on the 1st of April and after 5 months of using it, I can really say that this is a great help for beginners, but once you reach medium level or you are close to it, it’s not that worth anymore. It is useful to learn some music theory although you can find much more details for free on YouTube. However, Fender Play is nicely organized and provides ability to advance quite quickly close to the medium level. I would recommend it for all beginners, but at the moment it is enough to pay for one year subscription and then just cancel it. If they provide more advanced tutorials in the future it may be worth resubscribing.
As I child, I dreamed of having real Stratocaster and the time has finally come. I looked online at many Strats but one special caught my eye. I didn’t want a vintage guitar, I develop modern software so I wanted a modern guitar as well.
I played guitar as a child, even performed at my primary school’s festival. So why did I actually stop playing guitar?
At a time, guitars were really expensive and my parents bought me a beginners acoustic guitar which was quite bad even though it was still relatively expensive. The action was too high and this started being worse during the time. I figured out I could fix this a little bit by inserting a folded paper between the neck and the body which helped but it was still not good. I had quite some pain in my finger so I slowly stopped playing.
