Learn Electric Guitar

Chris from the Classical Guitar Blog wrote recently about Choice Research and what it means for guitar practice.  He writes specifically about playing classical guitar, but his words can apply equally to the electric guitar, or indeed to any musical instrument whatsoever: “In ‘The Paradox of Choice’, Barry Schwartz spends a lot of time talking [...]

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 [...]

What is a neck joint? The neck joint is the point on a guitar where the neck meets the body.  The neck and the body on a solidbody electric guitar can be joined in a number of different ways, each making for different tonal and playing characteristics. Set Neck The first solidbody electric guitars featured [...]

Birthdays, anniversaries, christmas time – these are all times when you might need or want to buy a gift for someone.  What better thing to get a guitarist than a guitar related gift?  It’s a good idea, but there’s just so much out there you could choose from.  Here are some ideas to get you [...]

There’s an excellent post on the Guitar Noize blog with a great explanation of vibrato technique. In my opinion vibrato is one of the most crucial embellishments to tackle for any intermediate player learning electric guitar, and yet for something so ostensibly simple it can be one of the most surprisingly difficult things to explain. [...]

Hey everyone, Recently I’ve been thinking it would be cool to write a short guide for people learning the electric guitar.  Not an in-depth, comprehensive course, but a short little eBook just to help people get started.  When I’ve written it, I’ll post it on this blog for people to download for free.  But to [...]

In my earlier post on guitar instruction methods I talk about why it is best to get private lessons from a good teacher. I still think this is the ideal approach for learning electric guitar, for the same reasons that I listed before.  That is to say, that having a teacher right there in front [...]

Blues guitar is a common starting point for new guitarists.  My first ever guitar lesson was learning a 12 bar blues in A, and it’s easy to see why it’s popular way for teachers to ease their students into playing – it’s a great way to introduce many fundamentals of playing guitar, such as playing [...]

Are you new to playing guitar, and not sure how you should go about learning?  There are a number of different ways you can get Guitar Instruction.  The best way to go about it depends who you are and what stage you are at.  Here are the common was to learn guitar, and the advantages [...]