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Terrifying Guitar Tricks – A Guide for Beginners
It’s easy for your guitar playing to get stuck in a rut. It’s inevitable that when you really work on a style and sound of your own you can find yourself repeating the same things over and over, eventually boring yourself with your own playing. It can be hard to break out of this feeling, [...]
Frequently Asked Questions on Acoustic Guitar
There are many things that you may want to know if you want to start learning acoustic guitar. In this article, we gathered some of the most frequently asked questions on acoustic guitar. They can help you to make the decision if you should continue your desire to learn it or you should go for [...]
Learning How To Play The Guitar
Learning to play the guitar is an aspiration that many people have. Unfortunately knowing how to play the guitar correctly can be more difficult than you had expected. This is why many people give in after only a few lessons. The same applies for many different musical instruments. It is important to take the commitment [...]
Meet The Famous Musicians From Memphis
When people talk about the famous musicians from Memphis, frequently the name of B.B. King comes up. However, contrary to popular belief, B.B. King is not one of the original musicians from Memphis. In fact, he came to Memphis from Bena, Mississippi after World War II in 1946. Although B.B. King is not technically one [...]
I Want To Buy An Electric Guitar. Where Do I Start?
So you’ve wanted to be a rock star since you were a kid, (maybe you’re still a kid), and you’ve decided that to be a rock star you need to learn to play the electric guitar. Problem is you really don’t know a lot about electric guitars, and if you’re going to buy one you [...]
The Early Design Of The Electric Guitar
Originally guitars were all acoustic, and the volume achievable by such guitars was quite enough for the environments in which they were played. However, as music developed and the locations in which it performed grew larger, and with the introduction of accompanying instruments, it became necessary to increase the volume and sound of the guitar. [...]
Why The Tremolo Arm Is Misnamed
Few parts of a guitar, if any, have as many different names and terms used to describe it as the tremolo arm. The tremolo arm is an adjustable lever which is connected to the bridge of the guitar. By moving this arm or lever, the bridge is raised and lowered, and by raising or lowering [...]
A Brief History Of The Modern Guitar
The modern electric guitar is a distant product compared to its humbler origins, and prior to such modern developments and trends, and the increased use of synthetic materials, a guitar was simply defined as any instrument which had a long neck which was fretted, at the base of which was a soundboard with curved sides, [...]
Guitars: Today’s Most Popular Musical Instruments
The most popular musical instruments used by country music artists today are the guitars. During any performance at the Grand Ole Opry, a musician can be seen playing a bass, steel guitar, electric guitar or a guitar made from polished woods. The stage at the Grand Ole Opry will be filled with musicians that have [...]
Categories of Music Gear
Categories of music gear encompass under them a wide range of musical instruments and equipment. There are a lot of categories and sub categories of music gear. They can be classified based upon the usage or based upon the mechanisms. The two main categories that they can be classified into are acoustic and electronic. The [...]
