Are you new to the guitar and looking to expand your knowledge of musical techniques? Do you play chords and find that there are certain frequencies that do not sound good to your ear and that you would like to mute? Does the idea of guitar mute strings greatly appeal to you? Are you looking […]
How Many Frets on a Guitar? [Answered]
Are you itching to finally get an objective answer of how many frets on a guitar once and for all? Are you often left in the dark at night wondering just how many frets there are on an acoustic guitar or an electric guitar on average? Are you simply interested in learning what the number […]
Cutting Guitar Strings: 4 Steps to Do It at Home
Have you snapped a guitar string at home? Do you have the guitar strings but lack the tools or knowledge of cutting guitar strings? Do you live too far away from your closest guitar store to do anything about it? Well you are in luck, for today we will be running through a few things […]
Is Guitar Easier than Piano? How to Choose?
Mastering a musical instrument is one of the most rewarding pursuits. But if you’re new to learning music, you might want to choose an easy instrument to play. Guitar and piano are two of the most popular instruments in the world to learn. And if you’re considering learning one, you probably want to know: is […]
A6 Guitar Chord – How to Play
Have you been seeing the eponymous A6 guitar chord on various chord diagrams and wondered just what it might mean? Are you in the market to learn some delightful new chords that can expand your ever widening arsenal of chords and ideas? Are you simply curious to learn, no matter what it is? Then you […]
How Many Notes Are On a Guitar?
Are you just taking those first crucial steps from the womb of ignorance into the world of guitar mastery? Are you, thus, looking to expand your knowledge of the guitar with some precise and ardent learning for your ever expanding mind and your ever palpitating passion for the guitar? Are you simply looking to brush […]
6 Differences Between Rhythm Guitar vs Lead
Are you confused about what separates and posits rhythm guitar vs lead? Are you struggling to comprehend the binary boundaries that have been established in the wake of the rise of guitar bands in the 60s? Are you even struggling to find your own place within all of this confusion? Then you have come to […]
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 […]
My Guitar Is in Tune but Sounds Bad – Reasons & Fixes
Are you wanting to get to the bottom of why your guitar just is not sounding how you want it to? Or are you simply looking to expand your knowledge of the ins and outs of the guitar and why it sometimes sounds the way it does when malfunctioning? If you have at some proclaimed […]
Checking a Guitar on a Plane: 7 Must-Know Tips for Flying With Your Guitar
So, you are looking to take the plunge and go on a little tour away from home? Or, perhaps you are simply going abroad and can’t bear the thought of being away from your beloved axe? I personally know I would be driven to lunacy if I had to spend more than a week without […]
How to Remove Guitar Knobs – Top 2 Methods
Well, well, well! You fancy learning how to remove guitar knobs, do you? Perhaps you are wanting to replace those plastic knobs that came with your guitar as standard and that just do not do your playing style and/or aesthetic justice? Or, perhaps you are looking to remove them altogether, for they get in the […]
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 […]
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!
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 […]
How to Paint a Guitar
It is often said that one of the greatest limitations on purchasing a relatively low budget electric guitar is the fact that there are more often than not fewer options for customisation, and in no aspect is this more evident in one of the most obvious aesthetic elements of a guitar: the paint job. Very […]
Guitar String Spacing
There are many aspects of learning an instrument that might traditionally be deemed rather nerdy or in depth, but which, if approached with an enthusiastic mind and heart can come to benefit the person involved to previously unknown extents. One such field is that of guitar string spacing, the pertinent and diligent study of which […]
How to Play Guitar with Small Hands
If you were gifted by birth with small hands or short fingers, then it is obviously vital that you learn how to play guitar with small hands, filtering all of your learning through this very important lens. When doing so, filtering this learning through this need, then it becomes wholly clear just how much is […]
How to Play Silent Night on Guitar for Beginners
There are scarcely more ubiquitous festive tunes out there, especially songs that straddle the line between the older meaning of Christmas as belonging to religion and the newer, more commercial meanings instilled by capitalism throughout the past couple of centuries. Many hymns and carols stay in the church and do their business there and never […]
How to Play Guitar with Long Nails
How long your nails have to be to play a guitar? How long your nails CAN be so that you can actually play? We created a Nails of Guitarists Guide:
How to Clean Rosewood Fretboard: 4 Tips and Tricks
When we are out busy shredding it out in the field in our various ways, we could be forgiven for not thinking enough of guitar hygiene. Unless you are so inclined, cleaning is not often what we consider fun, especially when it gets in the way of something we most enjoy. Who among us hasn’t […]