Archtop Guitars, All That Jazz
In the early 20th century, arched-top or archtop guitars won out over the banjo and flat-top guitars thanks to their greater volume and ability to "blend" better with the rest of…
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From Hell. On the Most Extreme Side of Metal.
Lately, the vast majority of metal players are looking for ever more aggressive sounds and lower tunings; but that search can easily bring us a problem or two. There's no point in…
Unhappy with Your Pickups? (Part II)
We're back at it. Last month we gave you the first brushstrokes on the basic principles of pickup installation.As I told you, we left a few pending issues for later, specifically…
Unhappy with Your Pickups? (Part I)
Nine years. Nine years of work well done, nine years in the professional field, nine years of learning and teaching, nine years of giving our best. And since we're talking about…
PICKS! Hold On However You Can
We keep them, we collect them... and they often disappear as quickly as we get them. And let's be honest: most of us feel completely helpless and useless if we lose them right…
Become the Tapping Sheriff (Part V)
We wrap up with a series of exercises that should have made this technique almost your own by now. I hope it's already part of your solos. Even so, don't miss a detail in this…
Tapping (Part IV)
In this chapter we'll find three tapping exercises that will help us keep defining this technique. If in the previous chapter we told you that you'd already have a good idea of…
Tapping (Chapter III)
In this chapter we begin with three exercises that will make us move and think through the movements of both the left hand and the tapping (right) hand. I'm being specific in this…
Go Tube!
We all agree: there is nothing like a tube-amplified sound: preamps, power amps, microphones, effects... It's hard to believe that an obsolete technology like this gives better…
The Flavor of Seven Strings: Tunings, Pros and Cons
In our day-to-day life as instrumentalists, we often run into difficulties that call for specific, efficient and complete solutions. For example, the typical case of not wanting…
Tapping (Chapter I): A Little History
We begin with a very special technique that I’m sure you’ve heard plenty about, or already know: Tapping. This technique is used by many guitarists, and surely by many of your…
Guitarists, Developing Your Technique IV
We've reached the home stretch of this series of exercises for developing guitarists' technical skills (and for keeping them, too), the main goal of these installments, along with…
Everything You Need to Know About Your Guitar Amp
The basics. As we all know, the electric guitar depends on an amplifier for its sound to be heard, and the amp boosts the signal sent by the pickups. The signal produced by the…
Blues on Strat and Les Paul: Is One Better?
The question was: which of these two guitars is best for blues?There is no firm answer, because both are. It depends more on the player's taste or the intent they want to develop…