Guitar Tech Bill Baker of NJ teaches you his way to restring an electric and acoustic guitar along with tips to clean, lube, and check over your guitar so you can get the best from it. Bill has done work for BLUE CHEER, Ace Frehley of KISS, The MISFITS, Richie Ranno of STARZ, Leslie West, The NERDS, and many more to name his top clients and friends. That’s “BIG BENDS Nut Sauce” I’m using as a lube, and it’s the best I’ve Read more...

want it to sound like the halo theme tune guitar, but when mine guitar is plugged in, it sounds just like the notes amplified weakly. Bookmark it: Read more...

I started playing guitar when I was 7 but I ended up quitting for lack of a teacher a few years later. I am now 18 and I want to start up again but I remember nothing. I want to play guitar right so I want to learn without taking shortcuts persay. By shortcuts I mean just learning tabs. In particular, I want to play blues music. I have me an electric guitar ( Ibanez GAX series). Does anyone have any advice on where to start? Bookmark it: Read more...

Here are some of the common issues and challenges when playing beginning open chords on the guitar. For more beginner guitar lessons please check out onlineguitarcoaching.com Bookmark it: Read more...

I was just wondering where you are supposed pick notes and play chords at on an acoustic guitar. I have seen people pick in different places, but most either pick; over the sound hole, between the bridge and sound hole, or somewhere in the middle there. Does it matter, I know it sounds different when you play it closer to the bridge or closer to the sound hole. I just wanted to know which one is better or correct. Bookmark it: Read more...

Learn & Master Guitar DVD learning series demonstrates the proper guitar strumming techniques. Bookmark it: Read more...

Hey, did you hear about RiffRaters? It is a new music app used in the iphones. This application has been designed for the music lovers only. It has helped a lot of music lovers to make their mark in the field of music. People who are interested in music or themselves are talented musicians or singer can use this application to record and share their music with other iphone users who are interested in music. This way they can get famous very easily, only if their music is Read more...

Searching the internet, I have found numerous diagrams of five pentatonic scale patterns and each website suggests different fingering for the patterns. Is there an authoritative source on what is best practice for fingering? Can you refer me to a website with correct fingering posted for the five patterns? I know from playing the piano for many years that playing scales with the correct fingers is very important and would hope to start on the right foot with guitar as Read more...

He was teaching me how to strum the guitar and he instructed me to use my thumb for E, A, and D. This is followed by my index finger for G, middle for B, and ring finger for e. Is this the proper way of strumming without a pick? Bookmark it: Read more...

I’ve seen several different tunings for this song. Standard, Drop-D and even some strange tuning in C (Drop-C). One example even had the guitar tuned down to a perfect 4th which i really wouldn’t have to do since I own a 7-string. Bookmark it: Read more...