If you’ve ever found yourself in a situation where having your guitar with you to practice or warm up on just wasn’t possible, the Shredneck might solve that in future instances. Touted as the ‘ultimate practice and warm up tool for guitarists’ if frees you from the need to have your ‘full sized’ guitar with […]
Month: January 2012
How to Tune your Guitar
As we already mentioned in past articles, we always receive emails from users with interesting questions. Some of you already know how to tune a guitar but some of you don’t! For you, here is a reminder on how you can tune your guitar. Learning how to tune your guitar is an important skill to […]
Harmonic Capo
If you’re into alternate tunings and experimenting with new and interesting sounds on your guitar, then you’ll love the Harmonic Capo created by Bob Kilgore. Unlike a regular capo that presses the strings down at the desired fret effectively changing the placement of the nut, the Harmonic Capo gently rests on the strings. The effect […]
Agile Partners Guitar Tool Kit 2.0
If you haven’t already searched the slew of music apps available for the iPad, you won’t be surprised to learn that are some great guitar apps worth checking out. One such app is Agile Partners’ Guitar Tool Kit 2.0 featuring a number of essential tools any guitarist will benefit from. For a very reasonable fee […]
What do the pros use?
If you’ve ever wondered how your favorite artist gets that unique sound you can wonder no more. The guys at GuitarGeek, have dedicated their time and energy to compiling a comprehensive list of the amps, effects and guitars that artists use. Over time their images of the artist’s setups have changed so that now they […]
Mesa Boogie Triple Rectifier Head
Since the days of designing and building amps in an old converted dog kennel in the hills of Northern California, Randall Smith and his band of music obsessed, tone junkies have been baking up new designs to push high gain, multi-valve, multi-input guitar amps to the next level. The Triple Rectifier Head is one more […]
Fred Frith
“…the obnoxious stink of a too loud electric guitar… now that’s my idea of a good time.” Frank Zappa If you really want to make ridiculous, obnoxious, weird and strange sounds then your first stop is an electric guitar – your next stop is an amp and some crazy effects chained together. If you really […]
Playing the blues – its as easy as 1, 4, 5
Playin’ tha blues – it aint no big thing and it aint nobodies business if i do!
To play the blues you only have to count to five. Well holy schmoley Batman! That`s one number too darn many fo` some! Right , look out people because today’s post is about as much fun as a mouthful of sand – dry, uncomfortable and nitty-gritty; but just like your monster-in-law its a necessary evil if you want to reap the rewards!!!
Getting a Metal Sound
This is a very common question, specially among young students; How do I get a metal sound? Many people start playing guitar, because they hear a super heavy hardcore riff on the radio and it inspires them to become a musician. That’s cool because heavy metal is a fun genre of music that is also […]
Keeping track of your progress
In this post we look at an old but very relevant article by Ben Edwards from the early Jamorama days in which he discusses why it’s important to keep track of your progress. An old piano teacher of mine used to record my playing at different times throughout the year. At the end of the […]