Who is in the mood for empowerment? I know I am! When I first set out to compose this list of the best female acoustic songs, I wasn’t quite sure I would be able to fill it, and I was sure I would have to make some compromises. But, upon flicking through my records, I […]
Humbucker vs Single Coil: What Are They & Which Is Better?
This is a war that has been waged, man against man, for the better part of a century, and here you are, cowering in the middle of the battlefield wondering just what the heck is going on? Today, we seek to elucidate the difference between humbucker vs single-coil pickups for you, so that you might […]
Guitar Polish: 3 Basic Cleaning Techniques
So, you are worried about the state of your guitar after a long string of gigs, or perhaps you just bought a guitar second-hand and are unhappy with the state you received it in? Or you might simply want to give your steed some tender loving care! In any case, welcome to this comprehensive guide […]
Modern Blues Artists: 10 Artists You Will Love
Howdy dudes and dudettes! What’s that? Yes, it most certainly can be difficult to navigate all of the music being released these days. The more people there are on the planet, the more music gets released and the more there is to catch up on! And yet, it can be easy to feel like the […]
Best Autotune Microphones – Top Picks & Reviews 2022
Auto-tune seems to be a bit like marmite, some vocalists can’t live without it and apply it to every recording, even if it is only by a small amount. Some vocalists hate the idea of their vocal performance needing to be smoothed and pitch-corrected and stay far far away. For the lovers of auto-tune, there […]
Best Rode Mic – How to Compare Which Rode Mic Is Best for You
You most likely have heard of Rode microphones before or have seen them in use. Rode makes trustworthy and high-quality microphones that can be used in musical projects and also filmmaking. Rode shotgun microphones are also widely used in broadcasting and are all broadcasting-grade quality. Rode has a large range of shotgun microphones to choose […]
Is Lemon Oil for Guitar Fretboard Solution safe? ANSWERED
I doubt we have all, at some point or other, been sucked into a tense debate with a fellow friend and musician about the benefits and downfalls of lemon oil fretboard solution, and if we have not, then we certainly wish we had! There are ever more products of this ilk by the day, appearing […]
An Easy Guide to Mastering Guitar Techniques for Beginners
In answering this so ubiquitous a question, it would probably be most useful to elucidate some of the central guitar techniques that you are likely to come across in your first few years of learning the guitar. If you have a strong hang of these different techniques, then chances are you are either well on […]
How Long It Will Take to Learn Fingerstyle Guitar Strumming
Round up, folks, round up, for today we will be tackling a question that many of your aspiring guitarists will no doubt have asked yourselves at some point, usually whilst simultaneously scratching one’s head in puzzlement. To begin with, it is all too easy to feel like fingerpicking is completely out of our reach, prompting […]
Guitar Chord Chart for Drop Tuning
Today, we will be getting our teeth stuck into a tuning that has long since passed its sell by date, and yet which seems to be more popular now than ever before! Whether you are completely familiar with how to tune to drop D or whether you have never done so before, if you are […]
Double Dropped D Tuning
Double dropped D tuning is common on electric guitar and rock music, and has been for a number of decades. In this article, we tackle the double drop D tuning head on!
A Minor Pentatonic Scale – Comprehensive Theoretical Guide
There are scarcely more ubiquitous scales in rock music than the A Minor pentatonic scale, or the minor pentatonic in just about any key signature for that matter! It has been at the forefront of just about any major development in mainstream rock music you can conceivably name, effectively there since its very genesis. Since […]
Ukulele Pickup: 4 Best Pickups to Amplify your Ukulele
Welcome one and all to today’s roundup of some of the best products on the market. Today we will be looking with an analytical eye at some of the options for those looking to take their musicianship and performance to the next level with a ukulele pickup, so stay tuned and strapped in as we […]
How to Play Ukulele Chords G7 – Beginner’s Guide
Here we are, ukulele chords G7 and its various positions. It’s rather common on either the ukulele or the guitar for an aspiring beginner to be playing merrily their C’s and A’s and D’s and E’s, and then suddenly to be jolted when first encountering those in between chords: those Bb’s and Eb’s and Db’s. […]
Which Guitar Has The Thinnest Neck? 3 Options
If you have often struggled to find a guitar neck that feels right for your fretting hand, then look no further than this handy and comprehensive guide to the thinnest guitar neck, along with three of the options you might consider in purchasing one of your own. The Bottom Line Most guitars that you are […]
6 Easy Ways to Learn the Fretboard Notes Bass
So, you have decided to hang up your guns with the guitar for a moment and give the bass a good old go, like you have been meaning to for oh so long now? What’s that you say? You’ve never even picked up a bass before, and are wondering how you might learn the fretboard […]
GarageBand Song Tutorial
When picking up any new piece of equipment or software, our first reaction to any halt in progress can very easily boil down to impatience and frustration. This is scarcely more evident than in this field of music software, where our minds have run amok imagining all the musical ideas we might realise with a […]
Electric Guitar Sound Like Acoustic
There will no doubt come a time in every guitarist’s career where one needs to make their electric guitar sound like acoustic. Perhaps you are on a budget and can only afford the one guitar, and thus want to make your low budget stretch as far as possible by effectively turning one guitar into two. […]
Rainbow Connection Ukulele
Who could forget this timeless classic, sung by Kermit the Frog when opening the iconic Muppet Movie in the late 1970s? Even the Library of Congress deemed the song culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant in 2020, selecting it for preservation in the National Recording Registry. If you, too, deem this to be a culturally, historically, […]
Ukulele Chords La Vie en Rose
No words need pre-empt this classic of classic, an essential stepping stone in the development of the French chanson. The song not only defined the career of original singer Edith Piaf, but also came to nestle under its wing a whole host of other star studded greats, such as Tony Martin, Paul Weston, Bing Crosby, […]