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John Scofield

John Scofield is one of those guitarists that can surprise you very easily. He is super versatile, and he can play it freaking good! Jazz, Rock, Funk, Soul, Blues. I…

Guitarists We love!

Everyone has their own favorite things in life… basically everything can be hierarchical according to your taste. What’s your taste in guitarists? Who is on your fav…

Pearl Jam concert a stellar evening!

November 29 and the RSR staff found themselves car pooling to Jon’s home for an amazing pot luck dinner and some quiet drinks prior to the Pearl Jam concert. With fu…

Fender Select Series

If you’re a Fender fan I’m sure you already know about the Fender Select series. The Select Series was introduced to the market earlier this year as its new top-of-t…

Learn like a Real guitar Hero

Last week I had a quick look at some custom guitar hero controllers as well as the YAMAHA EZAG stringless guitar, a “guitar” that falls half way in between a stringl…

Being a session guitarist

A while back, I blogged about How to make money playing your guitar, where our good friend Ben Edwards stated that there are 3 possible ways to make money playing yo…

Relics

It’s a funny old world that’s for sure. While some of the population seems hell bent on preserving their youthful good looks, brainwashed by the shallow whimsies of…

PocketStrings

Guitar gear makers keep creating and innovating stuff that we’d probably never even think of, let alone ever think could be created. The good thing is that they crea…

Richie Kotzen

I am sure you have heard of the band called Poison or Mr. Big, they were/are two American hard rock bands which contributed to the Glam Rock-Metal scene at the end o…

Beginning with the major pentatonic

Almost everybody uses the pentatonic minor blues box. It’s a fundamental building block for alot of blues rock guitar and a really very highly versatile scale that w…

20 tips to improve your playing

I wanted to make this blog post very simple but very helpful. If you are new to guitar or your playing has taken a bit of a dip, here are some tips that might help…

Paul Ubana Jones Fingerpicking

In a world of increasing homogeneity and gratuitous eulogising of the mediocre by the media simply for what appears to be the sake of having something to talk about…