Advice and tips for the Gigging Guitarist. Less is more Keep it simple! There’s a wealth of very complicated equipment available on the market today. Multi-channel amps, multi-effects units with their own effects loops using the four cable method (4CM). But ask yourself, are the thousands of sounds available any good? would you use them? […]
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An In-depth, hands-on review of the Zoom G3 Guitar Effects & Amp Simulator Pedal. A loveable box of tricks I really miss my Zoom G3. From the moment I pawed over the box, gawping at it’s many functions, to the moment it went on ebay for a highly respectable £70. It just did the job,
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My Top 10 Home Music Production Tips for Singer-Songwriters. #1: Get Set Up Before you start, you’ll need a decent hardware and software setup with a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) at the heart of it. Please visit my post How to set up a simple Home Recording Studio for all the info. #2 : Decide on
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In-depth review of the Fender Blues Junior III guitar amplifier. Comparisons…… I’ve owned a fair few amps in my time, a Vox AC30, Marshall DSL401, Orange Rocker 30 and Cornford Roadhouse 30 to name but a few. All amazing amps in their own right, but they all had to go for various reasons. The Vox AC30 was
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The Guitar tone bug. Why guitar tone has once again become my number one priority instead of reliability, cost, and convenience. Not so long ago, the vast majority of my guitar-playing time was spent either gigging or rehearsing for gigs, and my priorities were reliability, cost, and convenience, definitely NOT guitar tone. Reliability? Because I’d
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When you first learn a musical scale in your beginner guitar lessons, you play one note at a time ascending and then descending. This quickly gets boring and repetitive, so it is important to find other ways that stimulate the mind and the muscles. Whether you are trying to apply guitar scales to a solo
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Many guitarists (particularly experienced players) have gathered enough knowledge and tools to negate the need for a guitar luthier/tech’s assistance. Why do you need one? 1. A Guitar Luthier will save your guitar. How many times have you given up on a guitar because of an issue with it you couldn’t solve on your own?
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The world of guitar is fascinating and so is the various techniques that come with it. Why focus only on left hand techniques when there are a bunch a right hand techniques waiting to be mastered. Various playing styles required different right hand techniques also, and therefore, the style of picking evolved in different styles.
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5 Cheap Fender Stratocaster upgrades that are quick, easy, and effective. Lighter string gauge/locking string wrap – £5. The simplest and most effective way to improve your guitar’s playability is to move down a string gauge. Most Stratocaters leave the factory with 9 gauge strings, so I would recommend switching to 8’s. Ernie Ball 8’s
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