Specialization has invaded the guitar world. Is there really such a thing as a general guitar article? Well, like medicine, the discipline itself has become so specialized it resembles the main question most people ask when we need medical attention. What type of specialist or doctor do I see? Confused?
Guitars, guitar players, guitar lessons, [...]
Can you beat a metronome? Probably not. It takes years of diligent practice to beat a metronome. The paradigm here is that it is vitally important to keep perfect time if you play the guitar. Especially if you want to play and interact with other musicians.
It seems to be a natural tendency to speed the [...]
At some point in ones road to becoming a great guitar player you may need or want to have your guitar set-up and even upgraded to further personalize and improve tone.
What is a basic set-up? A basic setup, lets assume the guitar has no serious problems first. If you need frets or have a scratch [...]
Fretboard Note Layout and Description
Free to anyone.
Tab and Classical Musical Notation Example:
GPC has a growing amount of guitar players information to go with our guitar tab and guitar chords and guitar lessons.
The chords and scales are mandatory must know for any guitarist who wants to grow as a student of the [...]
Stage one and Two Mandatory Chords For Every Guitarist
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Guide:
The X means don’t strum that string.
The O means that string gets strummed .
The numbers are where your fingers go.
#1 is the index finger
#2 is the middle finger
#3 is your ring finger
#4 is your pinkie finger
More [...]
As I get ready to buy and install the Active Guitar Tone Controls or TBX Boost as in The Eric Clapton Strat, I noticed a bit of info that would be considered important. Make sure your guitar has passive pickups.
Definition: Active and Passive Pickups:
Pickups can be either active or passive. Pickups, apart from optical types, [...]
Epiphone introduced a new line of guitars at the NAMM show this year. Based on the soon to be released date of the 3rd of March 2008, I have not actually played any of them. Well, needless to say, Epiphone has always been a great guitar at an affordable price, and these guitars really caught [...]
Danger-Electricity!
Any time you hook up a multitude of complex electrical components with lots of cables, the rig or setup is probably going to have some annoying electrical noise. It’s a problem electric guitar players have faced forever with varied success.
One of the prime reasons for hum is the ground loop, caused when the sound [...]
As my interest grows on the subject of using computers for recording purposes or for creating effects or anything your imagination dreams of, it seems like time to Discuss and briefly brake down into terms you understand the options available such as the PCI, Firewire, USB 2.0, Cardbus, USB 1.1 setups.
If you [...]
The Master of Tone designed and plays his Signature JS Model Guitars. That almost says it all. Because if you know how exacting Joe is in getting the best tones in the business, then by definition his signature models have to be great guitars. If that doesn’t convince you, then you can see from the [...]
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