Learn Electric Guitar

“Shut up an’ play yer guitar” – Frank Zappa For years now, I have made a habit of frequenting music forums and blogs quite a bit.  I’ve made a few firm friendships that way, learnt a great deal, and had some laughs along the way.  In reading the posts on some of these places I [...]

The big 4 of Thrash metal – Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax – played an unprecedented show together at the Sonisphere festival in Sofia, Bulgaria on Tuesday June 22. This was a massive event in the world of metal guitar, as Metallica and Megadeth have famously not been on amicable terms ever since former Metallica [...]

The Gibson Guitar company recently compiled a top 50 guitarists of all time, which I covered in a series of posts recently: Gibson’s Top 50 Guitarists of all time – 50 to 41 Gibson’s Top 50 Guitarists of all time – 40 to 31 Gibson’s Top 50 Guitarists of all time – 30 to 21 [...]

The world of guitar instruction has changed a little since I was first started playing electric guitar as a teenager in the early 90s. Home internet was around back then, but it was very new, and downloading hours of video or audio content was certainly not something that ordinary people had the connection speeds to [...]

Many guitar players have trouble attaching an acoustic guitar strap to their instrument, unlike the electric guitar most acoustics only come with one strap button located at the base of the instrument. Despite the fact that this problem is rather easy to solve, most acoustic players never actually get round to attaching a strap to [...]

The 12 bar blues is one of the most popular types of chord progression in contemporary music.  As the name suggests, it features in blues guitar a great deal,  It is also used very commonly in jazz, rock, pop, country and even heavy metal.  A 12 bar blues can be played in any key, and [...]

It happens to all of us some of the time.  Anybody learning electric guitar will at some stage reach a point where every time they pick up the guitar they end up playing the same few things that they played last time. It’s worth noting that playing similar patterns does not have to be a [...]

Electronic tuners are cheap, accurate and readily available.  Even people with a very good ear will probably be able to tune faster with a tuner than by ear.  You can even get pedal tuners, that you can step on to tune quickly and silently, before stepping on them again and being ready to play straight [...]

First question in from our new Ask a Question page, and it’s a good one! Hi, I’m 16, I’ve been playing for 5 years.  I want to play better lead guitar.  I have been learning the solos to Painkiller by Judas Priest, and Tornado of Souls by Megadeth, and I can kind of play them, [...]

So many people have spent a lot of their guitar playing years on brands such as Gibson, Fender, Yamaha, etc. But have we missed what great guitar instruments Ibanez makes? After an in depth review of some of the instruments Ibanez makes I decided to share them here. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.learnelectricguitar.net%2Funcategorized%2Fthe-tradition-of-ibanez-guitars’; addthis_title = ‘The+Tradition+of+Ibanez+Guitars’; addthis_pub [...]