Articles from August 2009

Tips on Choosing an Electric or Acoustic Guitar

   Anyone can learn to play the guitar. The first step is to actually purchase a  guitar. This article will help you with some tips that will help you with  buying a guitar. The first things to consider are your budget and preferred style of music.  There are basically two types of guitars to choose from; electric or acoustic [...]

Guitar Tuners

Tuners are critical for guitarists. Whether you’re tuning by ear or using computer software or a pedal, tuning is necessary before you can perform at your best. Normally, if you play your guitar only on a daily basis your strings will not get too far out of tune. But if your guitar is not used much, in bad condition or [...]

Care For Your Electric Guitar

Guitars normally require very little maintenance. However, a little care in handling and storage will protect your investment for many years to come. • Never expose your guitar to high temperature and humidity. Never leave your guitar in a hot car or in direct sunlight. Typical heat damage consists of warped soundboards and unglued (detached) [...]

Learn How to Play Guitar in Less Time

With so many quality guitar lesson-providing websites out there, increasingly larger numbers of existing and prospective guitar players are nowadays turning to the Internet when it comes to finding efficient guitar playing lessons, tutorials, tips and tricks that can significantly improve their playing. Although many types of guitar lessons have good potential of teaching both [...]

All About Acoustic Guitars

An acoustic guitar is a guitar that produces an acoustic sound through the vibration of its six strings. When we talk about guitar, the first thing that comes in our mind is Spanish guitar. Acoustic guitars have a rich history. It had changed its design many times. Acoustic guitars are 5000 years old. Spain has [...]

Guitar Amps: For The “Plugged” Performance

In recent years there has been a surge in the popularity of “unplugged” performances. Such performances, as the name implies, feature artists in smaller venues that were performed acoustically for a small audience. So while unplugged performances may have artistic merit, can not use one of the guitar ‘electric assets s most powerful and important: the [...]

Beginner Guitar Chords Made Easy

One of the first skills you’ll need to master as a guitar player is playing chords.  While there are literally thousands of different chord forms possible on the guitar, we’ll focus on a few basic beginner guitar chords that can then be moved and altered to obtain many more chords later on.  These can also [...]

Learning to Play Acoustic Guitar for Beginners

The very first step toward learning to play acoustic guitar is to develop confidence and to destroy that “I can’t do it” mentality. Your biggest obstacle in your acoustic guitar playing is not going to be money, time, or the absence of a good teacher. The biggest obstacle is going to be you. You are [...]

Buying a Guitar Online: Top Ten Things To Look For When Buying A Guitar Online

 In this day and age where purchasing things can be done over the internet, it is sufficient to say that even guitars can be purchased in this manner. If a person wants to buy a guitar online, all he or she has to do is to search online for the particular guitar model and brand [...]

Black Cat Pedals Available Again!

 Black Cat Pedals was founded in Texas by Fred Bonte in 1993, at the dawn of the boutique pedal era. The original Black Cat company stoppeded production in late 2007 and has since been restructured from the ground up to make way for a newly revamped line of Black Cat Pedals.Using the same great designs, [...]

BSM Introduces the New RPA California Pedal

 The new BSM RPA California pedal recreates Ritchie Blackmore´s hot 1974/75 era Deep Purple Mk3 sound. Tweaking the “Bite” control, you can blend between two completely different sounds: the raw and brutal early 1974 “California Jam” sound and the later razor-sharp “Live in London” tone.The RPA California has plenty of headroom, to recreate Blackmore´s original [...]