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Archive for September, 2010

Improvising on a 12 bar blues in A

Hey everyone, not long ago I contacted Dr. Matt Warnock about writing a guest post for us here at the Learn Electric Guitar blog.  Matt is a professional performer and guitar teacher, writing for Guitar International magazine and teaching at Western Illinois University.  I asked him if he could write something about improvising over a [...]

Got money to burn?

Yesterday I wrote a little article about how to learn the electric guitar without immediately blowing all your money.  So today I thought I’d take a different tack: stuff you can buy if you’re really on a mission to spend as much money as you can in the shortest time possible. Jimmy Page’s new autobiography [...]

Are you here to learn guitar, or to collect equipment?

As guitarists we are continually presented with new things to spend our money on.  Some of them are exactly what we need, others are a great idea for someone else, other items still are a total waste of money.  Being constantly shown new bits and pieces to play or to plug into, it’s very easy [...]

In Soviet Russia, guitar plays you!

This is a great article on “Cheesy Guitars” about something a little left-field – the history of the electric guitar behind the Iron Curtain.  This article by Iouri Dmitrievski was written in 1986, some five years before the eventual fall of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. It goes into what it was like to [...]

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