Learn Electric Guitar

2010 is just around the corner guys!  And if you’ve been meaning to step up your guitar playing, the new year is a great opportunity to spur yourself to do something about it.  Here are a few ideas you can include in your New Year’s Resolutions:
Practice More
It might seem obvious, but it’s still a great [...]

“I wish they’d had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would’ve been straightened out.” – Jimi Hendrix
“After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.” – Frederick Chopin
“You’ve got to learn [...]

So, you wanna be a rock star, but you’re not sure your name would look the part in the liner notes?  The  stage name is your friend, my friend. Some guitarists have ended up with a stage name from a nickname, others have deliberately crafted a radically new identity for themselves.  Here are a few [...]

We left off from our last part in the history of the electric guitar with europeans rocking it out to the lute as their fretted instrument of choice, while the four string chartar had just arrived in spain from central asia.  So how come we all ended up wailing on electric guitars, and not on [...]

It is a scary thing to consider, but for most of human history people have lived their whole lives without ever having had the chance to plug their axe into their stack and shred some mad licks. If we go back in time, to a period in the dim and distant past, approximately 4000 years [...]