No 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Today, we will be grappling with a topic that becomes more and more relevant the more this tuning becomes canonised in popular music theory. Today, we tackle the double drop D tuning head on! What are Dropped Tunings? First of all, to call a tuning ‘dropped’ is to enter it into one of the several […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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, […]

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, […]

Could these legends give the world a break? How many songs do you have to write before you are satisfied? They scarcely left any moments for anyone else to write any of the good songs eh? None more so than this, their first of many songs using session musicians and expanding their horizons. Here, today, […]

The young and supremely talented Grace VanderWaal has been taking the world by storm in the last few years with a ceaseless barrage of content in the popular music sphere, turning heads and warming the hearts of those inclined towards folkier singer songwriter sounds. If you are one of these people, then chances are you […]

It can certainly be easy to feel as though the modes are altogether impenetrable, slippery and evasive of proper understanding. However, much like plenty of other aspects of western classical thought and musical theory, this has much more to do with mathematics, science, and logic than any might otherwise think. So much of this stuff […]

Much as with the rest of western classical thought and musical theory, the modes owe so much of their basis to logic and near scientific reasoning. Early mathematical thinkers, like Pythagoras, were pretty instrumental in the foundations of western musical theory, and so too are their various influences felt in the foundations of the musical […]

Progressing as a guitarist, it can be easy at first to feel like the musical modes are something out of reach, something that as beginners we simply can’t understand or overcome. What if I were, however, to tell you that they rely on much the same mathematical logic that much of western classical thought and […]

Ah, yes, another of the modes, at whose feet even the mightiest of guitarists have fallen trying and failing to best you. It must seem, to some, as though you are simply ineffable, beyond understanding and yet simultaneously beyond reproach. And yet, at your very core is the core of most western classical thought and […]