Learn Electric Guitar

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 [...]

Playing guitar at home can be very rewarding.  And for many people, that’s enough.  But, to really learn guitar beyond a beginner level, to really progress with your playing you will need to jam with other people.  Learning to really lock into a band and to listen and connect with other musicians is completely different [...]

Many players are unsure how they should be holding the guitar.  Others simply haven’t given it much thought.  Bad habits will hold back your playing, make it unnecessarily difficult for them to play the guitar, or will cause awkwardness or discomfort, and can even contribute to strain and injury.  Good habits will improve your playing, [...]

When you first learn guitar, there is an entire vocabulary of brand new words you come across.  Here are some of the most basic of them explained: Parts of the guitar Neck The neck is the “middle” of the guitar, with one end attached to the body, and one end attached to the headstock.  The [...]

Regular readers will probably have noticed that things have been looking a little different around here lately. That’s because I’ve updated the theme I’ve been using.  Before I was just using a freely available theme, which I thought looked pretty great, until a friend of mine pointed out that, while my site was all about [...]

One of the most daunting and potentially expensive things that people learning electric guitar often have to deal with is buying their first electric guitar. If your dad or your roommate or somebody has a guitar and they’re happy to let you use it, then lucky you.  You’ve dodged a bullet man; just keep playing [...]

So, you wanna be a rock star, but you’re not sure your name would look the part in the liner notes?  The  stage name is your friend, my friend. Some guitarists have ended up with a stage name from a nickname, others have deliberately crafted a radically new identity for themselves.  Here are a few [...]