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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 is [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A common question amongst new guitarists is whether it is better to learn electric guitar or learn acoustic guitar.  If you are thinking that you want to learn guitar, and are unsure what type of guitar you should learn on, then perhaps this post can help you make up your mind.
To start with, let’s first [...]

This is continuing on from the last posts on Gibson’s Top 50 Guitarists of all time – 40 to 31, and Gibson’s Top 50 Guitarists of all time – 50 to 41
30. Roy Buchanan
Leroy Buchanan was a Telecaster player, a sideman and solo artist, and a master of the blues guitar.  He was one [...]

What is a guitar pickup?
A pickup is one of those little rectangular things on the body of an electric guitar, directly under the strings.  It will either be covered in a metal case, or in a plastic bobbin with some metal pole pieces or a bar magnet exposed.
What does it do?
A pickup is what makes [...]

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 set necks.  These [...]

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 [...]

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 E. [...]