Get Your Guitar Questions Answered
What are the actual notes of each natural harmonic? What do they mean by ‘This amp has alot of headroom’? What do you do when a string breaks or you drop your pick on stage? What did Petrucci mean? Guitarists have a lot of questions. And there’s tons of sites willing to try and […]
Rocksmith
Videogame company Ubisoft has just announced an interesting new title called “Rocksmith”. It’s basically what all the critics of games like Guitar Hero have been asking for, a game where you learn to play an actual instrument instead of a plastic ‘toy’. You don’t need any kind of ‘special’ guitar controller either. Any electric guitar […]
New Online Tab Player -“Tab N Play”
I just came across a new online tab player and editor at tabnplay.com. It’s pretty slick and has a lot of useful features. One of the coolest, most useful features is that you can copy and paste tab from any site. You don’t even have to worry about non-tab portions getting mixed in as tabnplay […]
How to Intonate Your Guitar
Setting the intonation on your guitar sounds like it would be complicated, but it’s really not. If you can change strings, you can handle this too. This video takes a very thorough look at the task and covers all you need to learn this yourself.
Develop Your Own Guitar Style by Studying the Masters
Over at Truefire’s blog, ‘The Punch-In‘, There is an article and series of short mini video lessons showing you some signature riffs and techniques from 7 legendary guitar masters. The videos cover Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Johnny Winter, Duane Allman, T-Bone Walker, Jimmy Page, and Albert King. These are all short segments from longer video […]