I want to thank Michael Burley and James Taylor for providing the most “awesome” (grandchildren’s’ words) Christmas present that my grandchildren, Stuart and Mackenzie have ever received.

Stuart (12) and Mackenzie (9) expressed their wish for a guitar for Christmas.  I didn’t know what to do.  My husband and I do not play the guitar, nor did we know anything about how to choose a good guitar, where we would go, what to look for etc. . We also had our fears that even if we gave the boys a guitar, would they ever be able to learn to play it.  Fortunately, I had been introduced to James through a friend, and learned that he and his friend Michael had just put together a DVD that would help me through the entire process. 

I purchased the DVD and sat down to watch it.  It became very clear that the boys would have no difficulty.  The video was well laid out, had clear instruction and was very easy to follow.

My next step was to purchase the guitars, with advice from the web site, and download the practice pages, one for each boy.  This whole process was so easy to follow that I never hesitated for an instant, knowing that I was doing the right thing.  It was so very fortunate that I took thi

On November 6th 2008, R 30 (a tribute to Rush), Steel Wheels (a tribute to The Rolling Stones), Classic Rock 101 and the Plaza nightclub put on the Rock Girl Reunion party at the Plaza nightclub in Vancouver B.C.

This event was put together to celebrate Rock 101’s fall promotion of the Rock Girl Search that included 32 stunning women competing for a one year opportunity to help host the morning show on Rock 101.

 After several weeks of competition Rock 101 was proud to present their official Rock Girl winner “Alece” and they immediatly threw a party.

November 6th 2008, The Rock Girl Reunion

The evening began with Mercedes Benz presenting Alece with the keys to her brand new car, then a celebration with the music of Rush (performed by R 30) and the Rolling Stones (performed by Steel Wheels). The crowd was amazing, the performances were phenomenal, and the energy in the room was electric.

This event was filmed by James E. Taylor of Burley Music Entertainment and the audio was recorded off the sound board by Rob Burgess.  Edited excerpts from this event will be available to view online at www.veoh.com under the burleymusic search.

Joel Taylor

Well almost two weeks later, we are complete.

On Sunday September 21 2008, Burley Music Entertainment shot R 30 - a tribute to Rush (one of MIchaels bands), during one of their rehersals.  This video was done to promote the bands upcoming show presented by Rock 101, Plaza Live and the Georgia Straight on November 6th 2008 at the Plaza Club in Vancouver.

R 30 is Michael Burley (guitars and vocals), Gord Esau (bass and keyboards), and Mike Michalkow (drums). This Band has been together (as a three peice) for about three years, and has only rehersed twice in the past year and a half due to hectic schedules.

The Story,

On Saturday September 20 2008, at 7:30 pm (16 hours before the shoot) James and Michael received a phone call informing us that there would be no audio engineer for the upcoming shoot due to a family crisis.

This was a problem.

With Michael already scheduled as one of the three performers (and not being much of an engineer), James and Michael scrambled to find an available audio engineer for the following scheduled day.

With no one being available, Michael decided to make his best attempt to capture whatever sound he could get with his minimal engineering knowledge.

With only one (mono) input available on the system that Michael had available to record with, James decided to set the cameras to record location sound throughout the performance.

Between the two, James and Michael were somewhat confident that they would have something that would capture the sound of the room. (live off the floor).

With 12 drum mics, 1 vocal mic, two samplers, 1 bass amp, 1 guitar mic, 1 keyboard, you could imagine the difficulties ahead of us.

Oh yeah did I mention MONO?

“The show must go on”

By the time Michael was done wiring the sound throughout three mixing boards (and then into one mono input), and James’s gang was done with the lighting and cameras - the floor of the room looked like it was crawling with snakes.

This was an odd and unusual way of capturing the sound, but in the end they are satisfied with what they had captured.

Now it is time to edit.

Michael spent the following six days (about 14 hours a day), editing the audio captured between the mono mix, and the camera microphones. “The hardest thing was deciding on which mic or input captured what instrument the best, this took alot of trial and error”.

The Video Edit.

To this date, Michael had never done a video edit.

James thought that this project would be a great opportunity to teach Michael how to edit video.

With James’s film crew (the Gang) being their usual “Spectacular”, Michael was left with the responsability of selecting the best shots for these songs from the footage provided from the seven cameras.

With the brilliant shots requiring sensitive decisions, and the learning curves that Michael was undergoing, the edits took aproximatly 4 to 12 hours per song.

“Clean ups were done by James after Michael was done, but we wont tell Michael that”

The four songs captured are Freewill, Subdivisions, Tom Sawyer, and The Spirit of Radio  The final production can be viewed at www.veoh.com , www.youtube.com , and soon on the Burley Music Entertainment Inc. website www.burleymusic.com . All songs can be SEARCHED on these websites by typing in  the song title and Burley Music.

Burley Music Entertainment Inc. would like to send a special thanks to the following people for their hard work on this project.

Steve, Ruben, Jaime, Mariko, Clarence, James, Gord, Mike and Michael.

Yours truly,

Michael, James, and the rest of us here at Burley Music,

Burley Music Entertainment Inc.

The Infomercial is finally complete. Filmed at Bluewave studios, we have again called upon our gang to present their spectacular skills and complete yet another phase of our plan. This informercial is a concise and organized view of the information found within our DVD “The Complete Introduction into Guitar Instruction” and our website, www.burleymusic.com . The guitar lessons found within our product can be used for people interested in learning the electric guitar, the acoustic guitar, the twelve string guitar, or even classical guitar. This also represents all the extra free goodies that we have included on our website including virtual metronomes, virtual tuners, chord charts, and practice plans.

Please feel free to use and explore our website, links to our website can be found at www.veoh.com (search Burleymusic.

Michael Burley

Burley Music Entertainment gets go ahead to Produce James E. Taylor’s ‘Making the Invisible, Visible’ or otherwise known as ’The seven C’s of Filmmaking.  This 8 hour DVD set is based on the same book he wrote for teaching ‘Film Directing’ in some of the top film schools in Canada.  Production will begin in late September and will be available to everybody early 2009.

To date, James has taught over 2500 students and looks forward to sharing his 30 years of knowledge to the next generation of filmmakers.

check out his credits at:  www.jamesetaylor.ca

Michael Burley

These guitars were personally selected by Myself and James E. Taylor based on the quality of the instruments and the visual appearance.

The ironic thing about the selection of the guitars….

I have always been a huge fan of the guitars built by Yamaha.

With the change of design of the guitars over the years, I had moved my choice of guitars to Ibanez Guitars.

The staff of Tom Lee Music and Yamaha had been recommending the Pacifica model to me for several months.

I had hesitated picking up one of these guitars (even to try out) because of their similarities to the Fender Stratocaster.

Once I finally got over the appearance, I was amazed. I loved the feel, sound and quality of this guitar.

Since trying out this guitar, I fell in love and I have been using this guitar exclusively for the recording of my CD.

It is in my judgement that the Pacifica guitars are the best bang for your buck that you can get when it comes buying  guitars.

With the relative (low) price and the quality provided,

 I challenge anyone out there to try one out and see for yourself.

Thanks again,

Michael Burley

Just thought everyone should know.

Chris Mahiex Rocks

When editing began back in early January 2008, I decided the best platform software was the Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium package.  I new my post crew was very familiar with the software as well as my self… so it was a no brainier.  Our editor (Lindsay) used Adobe Premiere Pro, Animation was handled by (Chris) using Photoshop 1920 x 1080 jpg’s (HD) and then compressed to fit standard 720x 480 so Lindsay had the ability while editing to zoom in on any graphic without loosing any resolution. Our Special Effects dude (Arron) created all special effects with After Effects and did the final authoring of the DVD’s with Encore.

The DVDs were made with a great creative team, I would like to thank them for their painstaking detail and months of arduous work.

Hope this was helpful

James

Michael here,

The library is a section on both DVDs containing information that can be referenced at anytime to clarify or further explain information within the lesson plans.

When designing this package, we wanted to ensure that it is easy to navigate when information is required or desired by the viewer/student.

When teaching music, it is very common to bounce back and forth between topics when relaying information.

This is why we designed the library.

So that the viewer can acquire further information on a topic when necessary.

We beleive that with the sample online guitar tuner, online chord charts, metronomes on both dvds, tuners on both dvds and example practice plans, we have been able to design a user friendly system to learn guitar. This package is as simple to use and navigate as online guitar lessons, or private guitar lessons.

Michael Burley

I was recently asked about the text size in our e-book.

I would like to take a minute to inform everyone how they can take full advantage of the e-book we have created in our website.

Our E- book was designed with chord charts, maps and practice lessons. The text on the site may appear to be quite small (depending on your monitor settings).  Dont worry,

These are all downloadable as PDF files.

Simply click on the tab to download PDF file, and you will have an enlarged version of the text or image.

You can also print them out to create your own book for quick and easy reference when learning the guitar.

Michael Burley