10 Reasons why You need a Metronome (part 2)

Right, so it turns out that my “10 Reasons” why you should get a metronome fills two whole (pretty long) blog posts! I can’t say I’m surprised, if you don’t already own or use a metronome you really are missing out on something that will improve your playing no end. If you’re not already convinced [...]

February 9, 2010 at 1:56 pm | Equipment and Maintenance, Guitar Technique and Exercises, Practicing and Practice Routine | No comments

10 Reasons why You need a Metronome!

So, I talk about it almost every time I mention practice routine, or speed building, or guitar technique…the list goes on and I’m sure you get the point here- I find metronome use pretty essential! It’s so important in fact, that I’ve recently installed a little javascript metronome to my site (there should be a [...]

February 8, 2010 at 9:28 pm | Equipment and Maintenance, Guitar Technique and Exercises, Practicing and Practice Routine | 5 comments

Buying an Amplifier (part 2)

In my last post, I explained the different options available to you when buying a guitar amplifier (read it here) and in this post I’m going to take you through some of the things you should look out for in a good (or bad) amp. You may also want to check out my articles on [...]

January 5, 2010 at 3:00 pm | Equipment and Maintenance, How to | No comments

Buying an Amplifier

On many occasions I’ve talked about the importance of having a good amplifier for your electric (or electro-acoustic) guitar. After all, however good the sound is that you put into an amplifier, the resulting tone is going to be shaped by the quality of the amp (and/or speaker cab). I’ve had many occasions in the [...]

January 4, 2010 at 2:42 pm | Equipment and Maintenance, How to | 3 comments

Caring for Your Guitar

Although, as I’ve said before, knowing how to play and having a good guitar technique is more important than playing the best guitar, it’s still important to look after the guitar you have. So here are five things you will need in order to take care of your instrument: 1) A Hard Case Once you [...]

November 30, 2009 at 12:00 pm | Equipment and Maintenance, Featured, How to, Music News and Opinions | No comments

Buying the Best Guitar (part 2)

So you’ve read the previous post and you have a pretty good idea about which type of guitar you’re looking for, but the shop could contain hundreds! What should you be considering (other than price) when buying a guitar? Here is my breakdown of the main things to be concerned about. Always Play the Guitar [...]

November 29, 2009 at 12:00 pm | Equipment and Maintenance, How to, Music News and Opinions | 2 comments

Buying the Best Guitar

The first guitar I played was an old, beaten up classical guitar and, as such, I place more importance on learning to play guitar than having the best equipment available. It’s not what you have, it’s how you use it. Nonetheless, when you go out to buy a guitar, you don’t want to be ripped [...]

November 28, 2009 at 3:35 pm | Equipment and Maintenance, Featured, How to, Music News and Opinions | 3 comments

How to Set-Up Your Guitar (part 2)

In the last article “How to Set-Up Your Guitar” we went through how to adjust your guitars action. If you don’t already know how to do this, or haven’t read the previous article I suggest you go back and read it- because it’s important that we set up the action on a guitar before we [...]

November 12, 2009 at 12:00 pm | Equipment and Maintenance, How to | No comments

How to Set-Up Your Guitar

This is, unsurprisingly, one of those “how-to” articles where hopefully you will learn how to properly set-up a guitar. It is possible to just hand your guitar over to a guy in a guitar shop and say “Please Set-up my Guitar”, he will probably respond with something like “OK, that’ll be £20 please, and you [...]

November 11, 2009 at 11:52 am | Equipment and Maintenance, Featured, How to | 2 comments

Amplifiers and Tone

Guitar amplifiers are, in my opinion, a much underrated piece of equipment. So much thought is put by people (especially beginner guitarists), into which guitar to get when they go out to buy guitars, that’s they forget where the guitar tone is actually coming out from- the Amplifier! A good player can make cheap guitar [...]

November 9, 2009 at 3:00 pm | Equipment and Maintenance, Music News and Opinions | No comments

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