No matter how long you have been playing guitar, there’s always something new to learn about electric guitars. After all, it’s one of the most expressive instruments, enabling you to sound the way you want to using different amps and pedals. But you have to start somewhere, right? One of the biggest issues beginners face, …
It’s no secret that playing the electric guitar can be an expensive hobby. The good news is that if you’re on a beginner or on a tight budget there are still some great amps at a fairly reasonable price. For instance, some brands and manufacturers are making electric guitar amps that are below the $100 …
In this article, we will teach you how to play the B guitar chord by covering, first, the most common finger shapes of the B Major followed by lesser used variations that add a special sound to this familiar chord. The B major chord and the B Major key, in general, are many guitarists’ favorites. …
If you are a guitar player, there is a very high probability that you have heard of Ibanez guitars at some point. Ibanez has such a huge range of acoustic, electric, and bass guitars you can choose from, and they cover a wide range of price points as well. As a company, they have built …
By its very nature, the ideal bass tone will be deep and vibrant, filling the room, serving as something of a foundation for your band’s mix. This makes choosing a bass practice amp a tricky task, as you’ll be looking to invest in something with crisp and full sound, but also is volume friendly to …
Considered to be the standard size of the instrument, soprano ukuleles produce the characteristic sound that ukulele lovers enjoy hearing and playing. With its rich history, many players seek to find the best soprano ukulele. Every ukulele manufacturer that has ever existed makes at least one if not several lines of soprano ukuleles. Being that …
Imagine you’ve had a long day and just got home, sat on your favorite chair and started staring at the horizon onto the sunset, what genre are you listening to? If your answer wasn’t R&B, you need this article more than it needs you. The beauty of R&B is that it leaves space to combine …
There’s an overwhelming number of solid state amps on today’s market with just about every big manufacturer having an impressive product line-up, jam-packed with features that you essentially couldn’t find in a tube amp because the technology is, by its very nature, limited. Think about modeling amps that can quite convincingly model hundreds of classic …
The electric guitar was originally used to produce bright and clean tones by jazz musicians. Distortion was seen as something to be avoided in those formative years, but the advent of rock and blues in the 1950s marked a change in attitude towards distortion as an effect. Fast forward to the present day, and distortion, …
As musicians, we take our hard-earned money to buy our instruments to continue our craft. While this is something we love doing it is quite an investment for our guitars with some Telecasters cost thousands of dollars. So how do you protect that investment? You get a case! As traveling musicians having a durable, lightweight …