Tag: Acoustic Guitar
5 Affordable Acoustic Guitars You Should Consider Buying
If you’re interested to learn how to play the guitar, you’re probably scouting for one that fits in your budget. Most beginners set a limit to how much they should spend for their first acoustic guitar, and that’s good–at this point it wouldn’t be wise to blow your all your life’s savings on an instrument.…
Protecting Your Guitar from Humidity
Where do you keep your guitar? Most likely, it is tucked up in the corner of the room, or popped away in a cupboard, safely stored and out of the way, but in easy reach for when you need it. What many of us fail to realise is that the way we store our guitar…
Check out my Album of Original Songs
The Blogging Musician hasn’t always been about Blogging about Music. In the beginning, I focussed more on the music itself. Back when I started blogging around 8 years ago, one of my main motivators was to have a home for my original music, that could easily be shared with the wider public. Since then, the…
Guitar nut height adjustment – 7 easy steps
One of the main causes of guitar playability issues is the guitar nut height. Find out how to solve this problem quickly, easily and cheaply. The guitar nut height on my Yamaha Pacifica 112J needed serious attention. The three wound string were fine, but as you can see from the pic below, the nut height…
Yamaha FG850 Acoustic Guitar Review: 18 months on.
It’s been 18 months since I acquired my Yamaha FG850 Acoustic Guitar and put together a video review. In this in-depth review, I’ll look at the guitar in much greater detail. Now that I’ve got a good bit of experience with the guitar, a few notable good and bad points have emerged, which I’ll use…
Songwriting Diary #1 : From nothing to something.
I’ve finally put to be bed all the ideas and thoughts I had flying about for years, and released my first ‘proper’ album This is Who I am. With the slate now clean. I thought I’d put together a diary of the songwriting process from beginning idea to final cut, so here it is….. The…
Acoustic vs Electric Guitar: What Are the Differences?
Today, as many as 72 million people play the guitar. It’s an instrument sure to make people swoon, and if you’re a great multitasker, you can sing as you play as well! As a music fan, the guitar’s simply irresistible to you. So you want to pick one up and learn to play some tunes on…