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 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 […]
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 […]
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:
Guitar String Names
Learning guitar string names will make a major difference in your progress as a guitarist. So without further delay, let’s jump into some guitar string names!
How to Clean Fretboard of Your Guitar?
The fretboard on your guitar is an essential piece of it. The strings vibrate against it to produce the sounds you hope to play to create music. You have to press your fingers against the fretboard depending on the chords and notes you need to perform, leading to the buildup of grime and dirt. Fretboards […]
Can You Use Acoustic Guitar Strings on an Electric Guitar?
You may have heard of certain players using electric guitar strings on an acoustic guitar. The result is usually a twangy, snappy sound that some guitarists like and some do not. But what about the reverse? Can you put acoustic strings on an electric guitar? Is there a difference between acoustic and electric guitar strings? […]
How Do Acoustic Guitars Work?
Have you ever wondered about how acoustic guitars work? I always did. Not every wants to know what makes an acoustic guitar tick ? some just want a guitar that sounds great and is nice to play ? for those that are curious though, read on. Scope of this Post I?m not going to delve […]
Guitar Tips for Small Hands
If you have small hands it can be tricky to play guitar the way you want to on a ?standard sized? guitar. Now what constitutes a standard sized guitar is up for debate but the important thing is that there are some useful guitar tips for small hands players that will help you to play […]
How to Make an Acoustic Guitar Louder
Unlike electric guitars that use amplifiers in order to generate more noise, acoustic guitars rely?on the sound waves that resonate within the guitar through the sound hole. This makes acoustic guitars a lot less efficient when it comes to generating volume. So, if you are asking yourself how to make an acoustic guitar louder, here […]
The Parts of the Acoustic Guitar Diagram
Check out the parts of a guitar diagram (larger version below) to learn the different parts of the acoustic guitar. Below the diagram, there is further explanation for each of the parts. The Diagram Parts of the Acoustic Guitar Explained O.k. now let’s look a little bit more in-depth into the individual parts of the […]