Before we can move to the actual setup and action adjustments we must make sure the neck is adjusted properly. I will detail how to check and adjust a neck that is not damaged or needs a new truss rod.
The first thing to do is to ’sight’ the neck. In other words, with [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2008
Guitar Setup-Step 1: Neck Evaluation and Truss Rod Adjustment
June 27, 2008 – 11:20 am
All Hail To Jeff Beck Turning 64 Years Old..
June 24, 2008 – 8:19 am
today. Jeff Beck is an original guitar hero. He is the most technically perfect guitar player ever. His beautiful sounds use the suspended scales with a great deal of success.
Realistically speaking I could spend a day on Jeff Beck’s guitar virtues and what he has contributed to the guitar world, and mine. Here is [...]
How to Do a Pinch Harmonic, False Harmonic or Squealies
June 23, 2008 – 9:05 am
Putting “Pinch Harmonics” or “Squealies” in terms you understand is easier to do than say. Technically speaking this is the closest I could get to explaining this subject.
Realistically speaking, this is a fairly advanced technique, it takes me a year to get proficient at playing something such pinch harmonics. I usually stumble through it before [...]
Roy Buchanan, An American Guitar Player
June 20, 2008 – 8:31 am
Roy Buchanan is one of my favorites, dating back to the Jimi Hendrix era, Roy may have taught Jimi one or two things. Think so? Listen and let me know.
Roy Buchanan (September 23, 1939 - August 14, 1988) was an American guitarist and blues man. He is noted pioneering the use of note bending, volume [...]
Baby Taylor Mahogany Top Dreadnought Acoustic Guitar Review
June 19, 2008 – 8:39 am
Can a smaller sized guitar produce the same full tones and sound a full sized guitar produces? Not an easy question to answer since we all hear sounds differently. The better manufacturers such as Taylor and Martin Guitars say yes, and agreeably so in my estimation. Obviously the sound of a smaller guitar [...]
Chords for Children and People with Small Hands
June 17, 2008 – 8:54 am
What is the difference between a chord that is played by a child on a guitar for beginners and lets say a adult chord? One thing the old lady and myself both agree on is that everyone should play the guitar. So, we give less expensive beginners and / or smaller sized guitars as presents [...]
Guitar Jimi Hendrix set fire to onstage to be auctioned off
June 13, 2008 – 8:34 am
Briefly, I noticed late last night a small, yet significant morsel of news from NME News, the ‘axe’ Hendrix famously ignited on stage is expected to cost around £250,000
The 1965 Fender Stratocaster guitar that Jimi Hendrix famously set fire to at the London Astoria on March 31, 1967 is set to be auctioned this [...]
Un-Biased ’60’s Era Fender ‘Voodoo” Strat Review
June 12, 2008 – 11:36 am
My intentions were simple, it seemed. Go to Guitar Center in Rockville Md. and play a couple of guitars for review purposes. Actually my intent was to play a few brands that I’m not familiar with, ones however you asked me to review. It’s not my first trip to check their axe collection out, if [...]
Essential Scales For The Electric Guitarist
June 6, 2008 – 11:40 am
These are most useful scales for rock guitarists to blues players. Stevie Ray Vaughan used the blues scale almost entirely. They are essential scales for you know if you want to experience any degree of success, again, you must know them inside and out. To be honest, these charts have been laying around for [...]
Neil Young Changing The World Again With Electric Car
June 5, 2008 – 10:35 am
Neil Young, the great composer and guitarist of Crosby, Stills Nash and Young who changed the world with songs protesting the Viet-Nam war and our current administration, continues to make changes with his car.
Young has teamed with up with Johnathan Goodwin, a Wichita, Kan., mechanic who has developed a national reputation for re-engineering the [...]
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