All Posts Tagged With: "guitar"
All About Vintage Guitar Gear
If you play guitar, you’ve probably listened to old records, and marveled at the tone you were hearing. Of course, much of what you hear is due to the guitar player, but gear does play a part. You’re hearing the amazing tone of high quality vintage guitar gear. Though there isn’t anything magical about vintage […]
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Plagued by fret buzz? Here's how to stop it
Fret buzz is one of the most frustrating problems you can have when you first learn to play the guitar. Part of the problem is that there are so many possible causes, some of which are easily fixed, and others, less so. It makes sense then, to first of all try and identify what’s causing […]
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The Easy Way To Learning To Play The Guitar
The origins of today’s guitar can be traced back millenia with many of the ancient instruments showing characteristics of the modern instrument. Although the guitar commonly has six or twelve strings there are other types which can have four, five, seven, eight and ten strings. For many decades this musical instrument has played the lead […]
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The Secret Behind The Difference in Tone Between a Stratocaster and a Les Paul
Electric guitar pick-ups collect or ‘pick-up’ the vibrations of guitar strings which induce an alternating current in the coils of copper wire wrapped around poles in the pick-up. That current is then passed through potentiometers which modify volume and tone and through a guitar lead to an amplifier. The amplifier then uses either valves or […]
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How Do You Choose Online Guitar Lessons?
If you play the guitar or would like to and have spent any time looking on the Internet for guitar lessons, you may well have found it a pretty depressing experience. There’s no shortage of lessons and courses out there, it’s just that sorting the good ones from the dross seems almost impossible.
Visit the websites […]
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10 Top Tips to Improve Your Guitar Playing
Stuck in a rut and want to play the guitar better? Here’s ten ways to do it easily and quickly and they won’t cost you a penny.
1. Check your posture. It’s something that’s too often ignored, but posture is very important when you play guitar. You spend hours practicing and playing and most of that […]
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If You Want to Learn Guitar…
If you are interested to learn guitar, you should know that you are doing something really great in your life. Even if you do not end up joining a band or really going anywhere with the whole music thing, if you learn guitar you are gaining a new skill that you can carry with you […]
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