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Electric Guitar Strings

For those of you who are new to the guitar here are some general pointers regarding guitar strings and how to choose them. I’m going to use the sets provided by Erni…

Learn to play with Songs!

Here are some great shots of Mark McKenzie’s stratocaster. Check him out on Songpond. As you can tell by both his face and his guitar accoutrements (that’s the pick…

Tuning guitar II – Guitar Intonation – updated

INTONATION: Okay so here’s the deal regarding intonation. Intonation problems are created when the length of the guitar string is not precisely matched to the length…

Unusual guitar III

Bukka White jammin` hard. Just so everybody knows where Hendrix is really coming from. If you really like Bukka then shell out some brass for the ultimate recording…

Unusual guitar II

Here’s Furry Lewis playing when I lay my burden Down. I previously wrote about unusual guitar practices and sometimes you’ve gotta have an unusual name just to back…

The Art of guitar

Jerry Garcia's Tiger Guitar Bob Dylan’s Newport Folk Festival Stratocaster Paul McCartney’s Hofner Bass Today I’m going to stretch the art of guitar metaphor a littl…

The Art of Guitar

Hair metal poodles and spandex clad rockers beware..! There are ways to burn on the guitar that far surpass the egocentric simplicity and slavery to technique of tha…

Music Party

We had a bit of a Rock Star party last night to celebrate the incredible man that Ben Edwards is and the beautiful Sade too!It was great fun. Here are the incriminat…

Choosing Acoustic guitars

If you’ve been following the progress and adventures of my recordings on the Elijah Few blog then you’ll know that thus far I’ ve had to do battle with some extremel…

Jeff Beck

I’ve been lucky enough to spend an entire gig standing next to Jeff Beck, drink a few beers, chat awhile and ask him some questions about tremelo and the performance…

Valve Echo

Yesterday we had a look at valves or vacuum tubes and today I’m going to take that thinking to echo. What kind of echo do you like? Crisp clear and digital? I’ve got…

Guitar amp tubes

Vacuum tubes? …from outer space ? NO, this is not a post about replacing the corrugated suction hose on your vacuum cleaner or hoover. If you have a valve (vacuum tu…