Learn Electric Guitar

“Matt: A lot of our readers have spent hours watching, and rewatching, your instructional videos in order to gain insight into how you approach the guitar. Is there any one exercise that you’ve got in your practice routine that you find is really helping your playing that you could share with us? Paul: My practice routine [...]

Many of the sounds that are now typically associated with electric guitars, such as huge overdriven chords that sustain into harmonic feedback, screaming legato leads interspersed with tapping arpeggios, echoing delays, swooshing phasers, and enormous whammy dives, were not even dreamt of when the instrument was first invented.  Guitarists only wanted to be just a [...]

Charles Edward Anderson “Chuck” Berry is an american singer/guitarist and songwriter.  He is one of the originators of Rock and Roll. Chuck has a degree in cosmetology. Check Berry started to learn guitar while in high school, but he did not start performing until he was 26.  He was 29 when he first started recording [...]

Yngwie Malmsteen is a swedish guitar player credited with inventing neoclassical shred guitar. Yngwie once recorded a cover of “Gimme Gimme Gimme”, a song originally by swedish pop band Abba.  In the chorus the lyrics were changed from “Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight” to “Gimme gimme gimme your love after midnight”, presumably in [...]

David Jon Gilmour is the guitarist of the english psychedelic/progressive rock band Pink Floyd. David Gilmour was good friends with science fiction and humour author Douglas Adams, until the author’s death in 2001. He used to work as a model before joining Pink Floyd. David Gilmour owns a 1954 Fender Stratocaster marked with the serial [...]

Slash, the lead guitarist for 1980s hard rockers Guns ‘N Roses, was born as Saul Hudson, in London, England.  The son of an english father and american mother, he moved to Los Angeles with his mother when he was 11.  He is a naturalized citizen of the USA. The nickname “Slash” is self-bestowed – he [...]

Tony Iommi, born as Frank Anthony Iommi, is the guitarist and bandleader of heavy metal pioneers Black Sabbath. Tony Iommi is the only Black Sabbath member who appears on every single Black Sabbath album. Like the other original members of Black Sabbath, he hails from Birmingham, England.  He is the son of italian immigrants. In [...]

Keith Richards, often known as “Keef”, is the guitarist and backup singer from the Rolling Stones.  He first sung lead vocals on the album Let it Bleed in 1969. Keith wears a silver skull ring, a gift to him from a friend in 1979, and a bracelet that resembles a pair of handcuffs.  The ring [...]

While it’s certainly possible to tune your guitar by ear, most guitarists will find having an electronic tuner to be convenient and helpful.  Compared to tuning by ear, using an electronic tuner is a much simpler process.  It won’t do anything to develop your ear, so you should still learn to tune without one, but [...]

Billy F Gibbons, the singer/guitarist from texan blues-rock band ZZ Top, is also known to fans as Willy Gibbons, BFG, and The Reverend Willy G. He owns a guitar called “Muddywood”, built for him after a visit to Muddy Waters’ birthplace.  It is built from a board taken from the porch, and has a recreation [...]