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Son House Blues Legend

I got a letter this mornin, how do you reckon it read?It said, “Hurry, hurry, yeah, your love is dead” So, I grabbed up my suitcase, and took off down the roadWhen I…

Dylan, Bloomfield, Son House and the Highway 61 Blues

SO if you dont know who Mike Bloomfield is here’s a chance to catch up. Bloomfield was one of the first popular music stars of the 60s to earn his reputation entirel…

How to play yourself out?

Guitarists and other musicians understand that it can be very easy for your playing to plateau. Often it is more of an emotional plateau than an actual physical halt…

Epiphone Wildkat Royale

A guitar to play anything but the heavy stuff! Epiphone does great things at affordable prices. The first impression when looking at a Wildkat Royale is smooth jazz…

Your personal map to the fretboard

If you don’t see yourself attending an institute for higher education to formally learn all the theoretical aspects of the guitar anywhere in the near future but you…

Pat Metheny

If there is a billboard of Jazz guitarists, Pat Metheny definitely has to be at top of the list. When it comes to jazz music, Metheny is there whether its in a jazz…

How to find time to practice?

We all are busy people here; we are either students, parents, full time workers, boyfriends or girlfriends but we are also wanting to learn to play guitar. Finding t…

Frets for the bigger hands

How many times you have struggled to get your chords sounding right? During all these years of providing guitar lessons and resources for the beginner guitarists, we…

Dick Dale

Anyone from the 60´s reading this article? You will be super familiar with it… Rick Dale, “The King of the Surf Guitar”, included on the Rolling Stone top 100 best g…

8 Internet learning resources for guitarists

In my opinion, the Internet is one of the best things we have seen in our era. Information is just one click away and your guitar learning can definitely improve fro…

My Top 5 guitar albums of 2012

Hello fellow guitarists! I thought I would give you a wrap up of 2012 by showing you my very own and personal picks of guitar albums of 2012! I am sure you have your…

Getting a basic guitar sound out of your amp

Many of you will have a descent (or not so) decent guitar amp, but I can guarantee that most of you are not happy with how your guitar sounds. This is basically beca…