Learn Electric Guitar

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 [...]

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 [...]

Guitar World have a great article up about the history of charvel guitars. I’m a big fan of Charvel and Jackson guitars myself.  I first became interested in them when finding out that a lot of my favourite players, such as Eddie Van Halen, Warren Demartini, Randy Rhoads, Vinnie Vincent, Richie Sambora, George Lynch, Jake [...]

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 [...]