Learn Electric Guitar

For many of us, our decision to learn guitar is not something we ever thought about too hard.  It was almost as though it was made for us.. we just knew that it was something we had to do.  For other people though, it’s something they will need to find some logical reasons to do [...]

An electric guitar really does sound a lot better when it’s in tune.  Even the nicest, priciest, most gorgeous fourteen thousand dollar special edition Les Paul will sound terrible if the tuning is out.  If you’re not sure exactly what you should tune to, here’s a guide.
What tunings are out there?
Standard tuning on a guitar [...]

What is a power chord?
Power chords are a basic element of modern electric guitar playing.  They are found throughout all genres of contemporary music, and feature heavily in rock, alternative, punk and metal guitar, because they will still sound clear, bold and full through an overdriven or distorted amplifier.
A power chord has only 2 notes [...]

In my post on Guitar Instruction, a commenter asked about whether some materials would be better or worse depending on whether you wanted to play lead guitar or rhythm guitar.  And it made me think, I get asked something along these lines fairly often.  Usually new guitarists want to know which is more important to [...]

If you want to learn the electric guitar, chances are good that sooner or later you will be in the market to buy one.  I guess you could conceivably get by just by relying on the kindness of friends and strangers to let you borrow one to practice on, but that could get real old [...]