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Frets

You can’t have your cake and play it too! Guitars just keep on getting more and more strange! But in an effort to fill your heads with “outside the box” inspiration…

Capo 1

A capo is a device used for shortening the strings, and hence raising the pitch, of a stringed instrument such as a guitar, mandolin or banjo. What a capo does, in e…

Manzer Pikasso Pat Methany

Okay, breathe deeply; when we’ve modified our guitars to the hilt will it then be time to modify our bodies? “I’ve gotta gig this weekend, can I install a couple of…

Southpaw Lefty guitarists

SO whats the deal with being lefthanded. Left-handedness is relatively uncommon; 90 to 93 percent of the adult population is right-handed. Chris McManus of Universit…

6 Affordable Gibson guitars

Here are some really great bargains for all of you out there with the cash-money to burn that you saved on your guitar education through the JAMORAMA LEAD GUITAR cou…

On the road …again with a travelling guitar

There’s often something in the human condition that makes one feel one “oughta be someplace else”, to paraphrase the great John Steinbeck, and that compulsion or fee…

Fret Light guitars

Here’s where the GEAR – LEARNING crossover gets seriously real!FRETLIGHT guitars are a sophisticated guitar learning tool that really do take the headache out of lea…

Country Music Sounds

IF you’re a fan of country music then you’ll be familiar with the sweet, mellifluous sounds of the pedal steel – that smooth sliding, portamento characteristic of co…

Digitech Whammy

What’s ten years old, a furious red colour and squeels when you stamp on it? NO, it’s not that; it’s the digitech whammy pedal. It’s been a decade since the Whammy p…

Choosing a pick

The word “plectrum” is the Latinized form of the Greek πλῆκτρον (pléktron), “anything to strike with, an instrument for striking the lyre, a spear point”[1] and that…

Choosing a guitar

Here’s Ben talking you through the guitar selection process. Quite simply WONDERFUL! You can also find some more zen-like guitar selection ideas on this post choosin…

Ebow

Modern plectrums – whats happening to them these days? Unwieldy abstract trapezoidal blobs of plastic…or miniature magneto-synthesizers? …or rather one of the strang…