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The 12 bar blues is one of the most popular types of chord progression in contemporary music. As the name suggests, it features in blues guitar a great deal, It is also used very commonly in jazz, rock, pop, country … Read the rest The post What is 12 bar blues? appeared...

The Complete Idiot’s Guide (CIG) to Guitar Exercises by Hemme Luttjeboer is a complete book of guitar exercises. It covers chord exercises based around the CAGED system, single note exercises employing scales and Arpeggios. The book also includes an introduction … Read...

What is a power chord? Power chords are a basic element of modern electric guitar playing. They are found throughout all genres of contemporary music, and feature heavily in rock, alternative, punk and metal guitar, because they will still sound … Read the rest The post How...

An electric guitar really does sound a lot better when it’s in tune. Even the nicest, priciest, most gorgeous fourteen thousand dollar special edition Les Paul will sound terrible if the tuning is out. If you’re not sure exactly what … Read the rest The post Tuning a...

Electronic tuners are cheap, accurate and readily available. Even people with a very good ear will probably be able to tune faster with a tuner than by ear.   You can even get pedal tuners, that you can step on … Read the rest The post How to Tune a Guitar by Ear appeared fi...

Before there were guitars It is a scary thing to consider, but for most of human history people have lived their whole lives without ever having had the chance to plug their axe into their stack and shred some mad … Read the rest The post History of the Electric Guitar...

Snark Chromatic Guitar Tuner I’m starting to see this nifty little clip-on guitar tuners all over the place. They have a nice, unobtrusive design with an easy-to-read display. The Snark Guitar Tuner clip to the headstock and pick up the … Read the rest The post Great Holida...

What is a guitar pickup?   A guitar pickup is one of those little rectangular things on the body of an electric guitar, directly under the strings. It will either be covered in a metal case, or in a plastic … Read the rest The post What is a guitar pickup? appeared first on...

Why you should learn to play guitar? For many of us, our decision to learn guitar is not something we ever thought about too hard.  It was almost as though it was made for us.. we just knew that it … Read the rest The post Why you should learn to play guitar? appeared first...

These are some of the most essential, bread-and-butter, don’t-leave-home-without-them type acoustic guitar techniques. You’ve probably heard them on many recordings. Let’s start with what I call…Pluck & DampThis is a fingerstyle technique that I like a lot. The...

These are some of the most essential, bread-and-butter, don’t-leave-home-without-them type acoustic guitar techniques. You’ve probably heard them on many recordings. Let’s start with what I call… Pluck & Damp This is a fingerstyle technique that I like a lot. The ...