If you are interested in playing guitar, you may want to get one of your own. It would be impractical to use other people’s guitar for your practice. In addition, guitar is not an expensive instrument. You will be able to get a decent guitar for your practice for just a few hundred bucks. This [...]
Although not as commonly experienced, resonator guitars still have a special place, and their distinctive sound is still very popular. Resonator guitars have a quality of sound quite unlike other guitars, and this is achieved through the use of a resonator fitted at the top of the guitar, in the middle. This resonator is made [...]
Memphis is a city that sits in the southwest corner of Tennessee and is the county seat of Shelby County. Memphis rises above the Mississippi River on the Chickasaw Bluff which is just south of the mouth of the Wolf River. The estimated population of Memphis is over 670, 000 which makes it the largest [...]
When people think of the banjo, they immediately think about old bluegrass or country music. Few will actually know where the banjo originated from and most will not picture the banjo being used for many other genres of music. The banjo is not an instrument that has been around for an exceptionally long time, but [...]
Oh! Susanna is a song written by Stephen Foster in 1847. In this ukulele lesson you will learn to play the melody on your ukulele with the help of ukulele tablature. I will show you how to place your fingers in order to play the melody. What is tablature? First of all we will take [...]
Music has an eternal appeal. It is like a magic balm, which can soothe frayed nerves and enliven drooping spirits of all and sundry. From music programmes, music contests to music quiz everywhere it has found takers. The entire global music industry is in on all time high as investors are all set to invest [...]
Most people have a specific type of music that they like to listen to on a regular basis. Some people get that style of music from the local radio stations when they are driving their automobile to work and around town, or they will get some exceptional music selections from a compact disk that they [...]
Learning how to play the keyboard has several advantages over learning how to play the piano. Although you might think learning one is as simple as the other, the keyboard as an instrument is superior in many ways. With a piano, you only have one type of instrument that you can play…the piano itself. Electronic [...]
There are a lot of controversies as regards to the history of the Twelve-string guitar. The first theory says that it has been developed by Italian luthiers laboring in the guitar workshops in companies like Oscar Schmidt, Harmony and Regal in New York and Chicago. It is substantiated by the fact that one of the [...]
When thinking about the history of Epiphone, one must start in Greece where Anastasios Stathopoulos made lioutos (a Greek stringed instrument), mandolins, fiddles, and lutes. The family moved to New York, and his son, Epi Stathopoulos inherited the company in 1915. The company name changed from the House of Stathopoulos to Epiphone, a combination of [...]
