1 In a separate study conducted by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing and The Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers in 2013, the percentage of nurses in the U.S. with a baccalaureate or higher degree was 61%.
1)Geek Out With Your String Gauges. Hendrixâs guitar tech Roger Mayer says an important part of Hendrixâs sound was due to his use of carefully selected string gauges, which evened out the guitarâs response from string to string. âFirst of all, we werenât using a flat-radius fretboard,â Mayer says.
But the strong pulse of the blues has powered his guitar playing since the beginning: from the Yardbirds when he was 18, through his stints with John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, Cream, and Derek and the Dominoes, to today. Now 62, the legendary guitarist is the author of a new autobiography, Clapton. In the first of a two-part interview, Clapton talks to Melissa Block about his musical influences as a young man. 'Uncle Mac' and the Blues. His first guitar, which he got when he was 13, was a steel-string Hoyer made in Germany. It was about as big as he was, Clapton recalls. It was a very cheap guitar. And most cheap guitars, as anyone will tell you who tries to play a cheap guitar ...