When using a guitar pick, there are basically three main ways you can do it: alternate picking, sweep picking and economy picking. Whereas alternate picking uses a strict succession of up and down strokes to play single-note lines and sweep picking is raking the pick across the strings to produce a quick succession of notes, …
It is the holiday season again and so it is time to give it a thought – what would we like to get our loved ones for Christmas? Or what we would like to get! To make it easier for you we compiled a list with a wide range of options for beginners to proper …
TABs are in some way the contemporary way of reading music, if you started learning the guitar in the last decades you definitely have stumbled upon many TABs. Tabs are a very helpful resource in learning, because there are tons of free ones you can find all over the internet. That is why it is …
She is a guitar virtuoso, looks somewhat of a Norse Goddess and has played alongside some of rock and metal’s biggest names. She is NIta Stauss. If you haven’t heard of Nita Strauss or her music, what have you been doing? In any case we can’t get enough of her awesomeness, so we put together …
Steve Vai is a virtuoso guitarist, visionary composer and producer who sculpts musical sound with infinite creativity and technical mastery. At the age of 12 he started taking guitar lessons from Joe Satriani and at 18 he began his professional musical career. More than three decades, 15 million album sales and three GRAMMY awards later, …
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There are two main reasons why you clicked on this article: either you have a guitar player in your life who you want to surprise or you are a guitarist yourself and are curious if we really have good ideas. Well, either way we’ve got you covered! The list below includes a wide range of …
If you are a beginner guitarist you may be intimidated by the thought of restringing your guitar, but it is a skill worth learning. There are several ways to do it, but with a little patience and practice, you should be done in less than an hour. As you gain confidence you can explore different …
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The guitar nut is crucial when it comes to the playability, tone and the overall performance of the guitar, but since it is one of its smallest components, it is often underestimated. It rests at the end of the fretboard and is the last component that the strings come in contact with before reaching the …
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The way a guitar neck is connected to a guitar body plays an important role in tone as well as how the guitar feels to play. There are three ways in which guitars are manufactured or more specifically, there are three main ways the neck and the body are joined. If you would like to …
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The string gauge refers to the size of the string in diameter, or we can simply say “gauge” is just a fancy term for thickness. The thickness of an electric guitar string has a large influence on the playability and sound in addition to other factors like the string material. It’s hard to believe, but …
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