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Most guitarists have actually never played a truly “good” guitar. That is because most non-professional guitarists do not spend  five, six, or seven thousand dollars on a guitar.

The vast majority of guitarists buy guitars in the sub-1000 dollar range. To some a 00 guitar is considered to be an “expensive guitar” and is expected to be a “good” guitar for that price. That expectancy can sometimes turn into a big disappointment.

When a guitarist finally does get to play a truly “good” guitar, it often comes as a surprise to them how very different playing a “good” guitar is over what they have become accustomed to. It can even be disorientating. Why?

Most guitars bought from a store do not have a high standard of playability even with a generic store setup.

Many guitarists go through the years playing these store bought guitars never knowing that there is better, and how better there is. Instead, playing the guitar hard, with brute force and attack becomes “the way you play a guitar.” This false premise leads to developing “bad habits” to overcome the guitar’s un-playability. And the person has no first-hand knowledge that it could be any other way. This is the situation a majority of guitarists are in.   

Here is a good analogy: If a person has ridden a Shetland pony all their life and never a stallion, not only do they not know what it is like to ride a stallion, but they cannot even envision what it is like to ride a stallion or know what it is capable of, until they actually get on a stallion and ride one. When they do ride one they always discover that they have to learn or “unlearn” certain skills in order to ride it well. Often this can be a puzzling or confusing experience at first and maybe they will criticize the stallion or themselves for a while.

It is not a matter of whether you are a left-handed guitarist or right-handed guitarist. Right handed and left handed guitarists both get instruments from shops that are terrible to play at worst, and mediocre at best. The person doesn’t even know how bad they are because the person does not know better. We can’t hold that against them, though can we?

Professional guitarists, especially lead guitarists (“shredders”), for example, do not give their guitars hell and play their guitars hard – they might make it look like it (showmanship) but actually they are playing gracefully, accurately and making it look effortless BECAUSE THE FINGERBOARD, FRETS, ACTION AND SET UP ON THEIR GUITAR IS PERFECT. There is no need for them to fight with or beat up the guitar in order rip up the fretboard.

Accuracy and speed comes easiest when you don’t have to battle with the guitar to do that.

The colour of the guitar, how pretty the grain of the wood is, scratches, dents, or marks on the guitar are all irrelevant when it comes to the playability of a guitar. You buy a guitar to play it, don’t you? Not to hang on your wall and look at, right?

The difference between a “good” guitar and a “bad” guitar (assuming it has been built well) is ALL IN THE SET UP.

A racing car driver, no matter how good a driver he is can’t win a race in a car with a blown up engine.

The Gaskell Platinum Setup Service ( http://www.gaskellguitars.com )is an optional service which can be done on any Gaskell guitar resulting in perfect playability of that guitar. This is the degree of playability a professional guitarist would expect and what you would expect on guitars in the 00 and more range. (Even then, some +00 guitars aren’t necessarily well set up!)

To the majority of guitarists this will be a whole new experience, and will require some change of habits and the refinement of skills, such as playing lighter, in order to get used to a guitar with perfect playability. This is how ALL the professionals do it. This is why a guitarist impresses you by making something difficult look “easy.”

Having a “good” guitar is essential to being a “good” guitarist.

A “bad” guitar is an effort to play. It is “hard work”, energy-consuming, and limits the ability of the guitarist. Any guitarist will never play as good on a “bad” guitar. Playing a good guitar is essential to becoming an incredible guitarist. 

Statistics show that 90% of kids learning to play guitar give up. Why? Perhaps this information will help answer that.

Korg GA-40 Large Display Guitar and Bass Tuner

• A large, easy-to-see, LCD needle-style display
• A compact tuner designed specifically for guitar and bass, with excellent performance and convenient functionality
• Large, high-precision meter-type display for stable tuning indication
• Quinta-Flat Tuning mode allows dropped tunings from one to five semitones
• Supports tuning of seven-string guitars and six-string basses

Korg GA-40 Large Display Guitar and Bass Tuner: Never Miss a Beat

The GA-40 is a dedicated, easy-to-operate guitar/bass tuner with automatic pitch detection. In Guitar mode it supports seven-string guitars (7B through 1E), and in Bass mode it supports six-string basses (Low-B and Hi-C). With the precision you expect from KORG, the GA-40 indicates the pitch quickly and accurately.

Features an LCD needle-style display.

The LCD needle-style display provides both the accuracy of an LCD as well as the easy viewing of a needle indicator, and the display has been enlarged for even better visibility. You can also use the built-in high-sensitivity microphone to tune an acoustic guitar.

Packed with Features
With superior features like a large, easy-to-see, LCD needle-style display, the GA-40 dedicated Guitar/Bass Tuner is a great value. The GA-40 is a compact tuner designed specifically for guitar and bass, with excellent performance and convenient functionality. It comes with a large, high-precision meter-type display for stable tuning indication. The Quinta-Flat Tuning mode allows dropped tunings from one to five semitones. It supports tuning of seven-string guitars and six-string basses. Its Sound Out function lets you produce a reference tone from the internal speaker. It comes complete with a Memory Backup function.

Push-button control.

Sound Out Function
In addition to letting you tune visually using the meter, the GA-40 provides a Sound Out function that plays a reference tone through the internal speaker, letting you tune by ear. Each time you press the Sound switch, the tone will cycle through 7B->6E->5A->4D->3G->2B->1E in Guitar mode, or through LB->4E->3A->2D->1G->HC in Bass mode.

Quinta Flat Tuning Mode
To support the dropped tunings used in heavy metal styles to produce a powerfully massive sound, the GA-40 provides a Quinta Flat Tuning mode that lets you detect dropped tunings of one through five semitones. This lets you tune super-long scale guitars that extend below the pitch range of conventional guitars.

Compact and Thin
The GA-40 gives you convenient guitar and bass tuning functionality in a pocket-sized package, making it easy to tune whether you’re on stage or in the studio. An output jack (bypass) has been added, making it easy to check the tuning even while you’re performing. The stand on the back lets you place the tuner on any surface.

Power Saving Functions
The Auto Power Off function automatically turns the power off after the unit has been left on for twenty minutes, preventing the batteries from running down needlessly. The GA-40 is designed for long battery life, and allows approximately 85 hours of continuous use (continuous A4 input, Meter mode, zinc-carbon batteries).

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This is a Free Guitar Lesson on how to play Maroon 5 She Will Be Loved. tocarguitar.com is a site built by guitarists for guitarists. It is designed to provide everyone with free guitar lessons on all songs. Right now there are over five hundred video guitar lessons with video submission being added daily. Bookmark this site and check back frequently as it is always updated. You can also submit your own videos to increase views on your site. Also you can submit request for songs songs you would like to learn. Learning guitar is not a easy task. utilizing such a resource is important. No matter what you would like to learn there is something in the genre of music that you are interested in.

Maroon 5 – She will be loved guitar lesson

This is a Free Guitar Lesson on how to play Maroon 5 She Will Be Loved. tocarguitar.com is a site built by guitarists for guitarists. It is designed to provide everyone with free guitar lessons on all songs. Right now there are over five hundred video guitar lessons with video submission being added daily. Bookmark this site and check back frequently as it is always updated. You can also submit your own videos to increase views on your site. Also you can submit request for songs songs you would like to learn. Learning guitar is not a easy task. utilizing such a resource is important. No matter what you would like to learn there is something in the genre of music that you are interested in.

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Tuners are vital for guitarists. Whether tuning by ear or using computer software or a pedal, tuning is necessary before one can maximize performance of his/her instrument and perform at his/her best. Normally, if you play your guitar only on a daily basis your strings will not get out of tone. But if your guitar is rarely used or is in a bad condition or your playing is extremely hard, then most likely you’ll need to tune your guitar always. Tip: TUNE your guitar EVERY TIME you pick it up.

For professional tuning, you MUST use electronic guitar tuners. These devices allow tuning with the use of pedals, little boxes, or rack mounted units. There are a number of manufacturers who specialize in these sophisticated gadgets

ELECTRONIC GUITAR TUNERS

• Boss, a division of the Roland Corporation (big japanese company), employs its proven technology in musical equipment and accessories to develop sophisticated tuners – known for their accuracy and superb functionality. One of its renowned inventions is the TU – Series tuners technology, which incorporates tuning accuracy in an ultra convenient tompbox design…ideal to take them into the guitar case everywhere.

• Korg. This world’s favorite tuner started introducing excellent tuners in 1999. It came out with the DT-7 GUITAR/BASS chromatic tuner, the first guitar tuner to feature the legendary Buzz Feiten Tuning System. The critically acclaimed DT-7 could be one of the most accurate tuners in the market ever, featuring an ultra – wide tuning range. Later on, Korg introduced the extremely flexible GT-12 GUITAR & BASS chromatic tuner and the OT-12 designed for Orchestra.

Other models that came out were Korg GA30 Guitar & Bass Tuner which features a pitch reference tone and quinta-flat tuning while maintaining functionality and convenient tuning functions in Ultra – Compact bodies.

The Korg CA30 Chromatic Tuner and the Korg TM40 Chromatic Tuner/Metronome; Tuner with Metronome which can function simultaneously or independently, its large LCD-type needle delivers both the accuracy of an LCD and the excellent visibility of a needle indicator. It also has LED indicators that show pitch deviation or blink to indicate the tempo, thus, making the TM-40 a highly visual tool. The superb functionality and the highest accuracy have made Korg tuners a worldwide favorite.

• String Master, is another respected manufacturer. String Master produced the world’s first motorized guitar tuner featured in the Guitar One and Guitar Player Magazines. This guitar tuner is very innovative, convenient and could be the friendliest tuner ever invented

• The Qwik Tune QT-11 is the next generation’s automatic guitar tuner. Featuring an electronic pitch pipe with an internal speaker it plays E, A, D, G, B, and E tones for tuning reference. It also includes an Off-Meter tuning mode, which detects the string which the user is trying to tune (even if the guitar is severely out of tune). This portable battery operated Guitar or Bass tuner features an ‘electric pitch pipe’ that plays the note for the user. The user can tune each individual string while the display tells her/him which string is being tuning and whether the note is sharp or flat. The highly sensitive built-in microphone & spèed metering allow easy tuning.

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TUNING WITH COMPUTER SOFTWARE

Tuning via use of software abounds. Free or for a fee you can find various guitar tuners in the internet. These softwares eliminate the need to tune a guitar with an instrument or the conventional tuning by ear. All you have to do is to listen to the sound from the software, play it on your guitar and adjust the tuning machines tension until your guitar produces the same note as the tuner software.Keep in mind that the basic requirement in tuning is to get the same note as the tuner, not the sound because the difference in thickness of strings may cause varying frequencies and sound…just listen to the pitch.

Listen to the tuner and tune your guitar until you hear almost the same sound, though, it might be deeper. This is specially true when you get new strings and tune your guitar immediately after putting them on. Your stings have to adjust to the pressure applied to them so initially your guitar will not make the right tuning, it will sound detuned. But after exposure to a certain limit of stretch, they will hold on to a certain tone. Tip: Tune your guitar and leave it alone for a few hours then tune again and…that’s it. After each playing session the strings tend to mantain the pitch with better accuracy and stability.

One of the common (and free) tuners available in the internet is the DGT or digital guitar tuner. DGT is windows software, which allows you to accurately tune your guitar using direct input or microphone. Another free software is AP Tuner3 which supports an improved detection algorithm for low notes for bass and piano. It has a helpful Harmonics Graph window to see the harmonic content of any note. PitchPerfect can also be downloaded for free. It also provides a highly accurate professional tuner with a very simple to use interface. There is more flexibility in the PitchPerfect software because it automatically detects the note you’re playing and therefore, you’re not limited by standard tunings.

Apart from free downloads on your personal computer,you can also download tuners on your pocket PC or on your ipod. An example of this is the 4Pockets Guitar Tuner. Because it can be downloaded on your pocket PC, you can take the 4Pockets Guitar Tuner with you on your gigs . A high precision real – time guitar tuner,this Guitar Tuner can accurately determine the frequency,musical note and octave for each of your strings. The ability to estimate the note and octave makes this a very useful tool in musical notation and musical learning.

The iRocker is another convenient set of tools for guitarists which you can load on your iPod. iRocker is produced by Talking Panda,the makers of iBar.A great help for beginners, the iRocker includes not only a virtual book with 200 chords and fingerings but likewise a guide to scales. It also provides 5 different chord progressions/riffs that you can play along. Moreover, it contains a set of guitar tuning recordings with a variety of tunings and a basic 10 – speed metronome.

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WICH TUNER IS RIGHT FOR ME?

Your choice of tuner would depend on your needs – amateur or professional use. You might use a tuner for practicing at home or gigs with friends or you might need the tuner for a larger audience – like performing in a big concert. Regardless of your need, convenience and accuracy, tuners are of foremost importance…you can avail of a wide range of guitar tuners, free or for a fee.

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Alfred Music Publishing Presents Revolutionary New Educational Multimedia Series: PLAY Series

Alfred’s PLAY series

Los Angeles, CA (Vocus) May 19, 2010

Alfred Music Publishing, the world’s leading educational music publisher since 1922, is proud to present a new educational multimedia series that allows music makers of all ages the ability to experience learning to play music in a totally new way: introducing the PLAY series.

Alfred’s PLAY series combines the convenience of multimedia lessons with the quality of proven expert instructors that teach you all the right stuff at just the right pace. Providing three ways to learn in every package, The PLAY series contains high-quality digital video that shows step-by-step lessons—complete with chord diagrams and close-ups—use Alfred’s innovative GuitarView software to slow down or speed up the audio and displays note names, finger numbers, or scale degrees on an animated guitar neck that’s perfectly synched with each lesson, and follow along in the included printable eBook that correlates with each lesson. Guitarist of all skills levels can also enjoy bonus features such as ChordXpress LE and a fully interactive tuner, providing even more useful tools.

Whether you’re into rock, jazz, blues, folk, country, or a little bit of everything, Alfred’s PLAY series has all the resources you need at the click of a button.

DVD Titles:

PLAY: Acoustic Guitar 1

PLAY: Acoustic Guitar 2

PLAY: Blues Guitar 1

PLAY: Blues Guitar 2

PLAY: Jazz Guitar 1

PLAY: Jazz Guitar 2

PLAY: Rock Guitar 1

PLAY: Rock Guitar 2

PLAY: Guitar Basics

PLAY: Electric Bass Basics

PLAY: Keyboard Basics

CD-ROM Titles

PLAY: Beginning Acoustic Guitar

PLAY: Beginning Electric Guitar

PLAY: Beginning Blues Guitar

PLAY: Beginning Jazz Guitar

PLAY: Beginning Rock Guitar

PLAY: Electric Bass Basics

View video previews, download free demo lessons, and more by visiting alfred.com/play. Purchase your copies at a local music retail store, or buy them today.

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Mount Vernon, Iowa (PRWEB) June 18, 2007

Premier Guitar Shows kicks off its series of regional guitar festivals with New England Guitar Festival, September 15 and 16. Held at Boston’s Bayside Expo Center, the New England Guitar Festival is expected to host as many as 150 guitar, amp, and accessory manufacturers and dealers. More than 10,000 guitar players, collectors, guitar retailers and enthusiasts are expected for this weekend-long event.

The festival will also feature top-name entertainment and a series of attendee workshops and seminars conducted by professional musicians, but also by noted music educators and teachers associated with TrueFire, the leading guitar education software publisher and comprehensive online resource for musician-centric content. (www.truefire.com)

Premier Guitar Shows president Kevin Kopec explains that these weekend festivals fill a void between flea markets and large, national guitar shows. “The entire concept is built on providing a meaningful show experience for guitar players of all capabilities and interests. The New England Guitar Festival will be a multifaceted experience, complete with dealer and manufacturer exhibits, instruction, and entertainment. It is truly a celebration of the guitar.”

Attendees will get a chance to celebrate guitar music with a planned All Star Guitar Night, which will feature an evening of exciting performances from well-known, well-respected guitarists.

Vintage and collectible guitars are a key ingredient of the New England Guitar Festival. Guitar enthusiasts of all levels – from players who simply realize the value of a great guitar, to experienced collectors actively searching for specific items to complete their collections – will have the opportunity to indulge their wishes.

“The guitar is an iconic invention that keeps growing in value,” Kopec explains. “Some guitars that cost $ 200 in the 1950s and 1960s can now be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. That is why we encourage the general public to attend the festival with an older guitar to sell or trade. You never know what that dusty, rusty heirloom could be worth until a dealer evaluates it for collector potential.”

When older guitars are detailed and restored with vintage parts, the value can literally explode in value. “It doesn’t happen often, but when it does, you have to be there to witness this experience.”

Premier Guitar Shows has scheduled two other venues for 2007, and two for 2008.

Premier Guitar Shows LLC is the events division of Gearhead Communications, publisher of Premier Guitar magazine. The show division capitalizes on a unique and powerful connection between the company’s publication, its online portal (www.premierguitar.com) and its association with TrueFire.

One additional way that Premier Guitar Shows distinguishes itself from one-day flea markets is with its unique, online show registration. Dealers of new, used, and vintage guitars can register online at www.premierguitarshows.com and choose their booth location, size, and any enhancements they desire. This can be done for any of Premier Guitar Shows Guitar Festivals.

About Premier Guitar

Premier Guitar is a monthly publication that is dedicated to the “relentless pursuit of tone” and is edited for serious and accomplished players. The magazine provides gearheads with the resources to help them evolve into better artists and, ultimately, to develop and to improve their tone. The magazine, published by Gearhead Communications, is based in Cedar Rapids and in Fort Dodge, Iowa and is read monthly by more than 90,000 people. The Company’s online portal, www.premierguitar.com, serves more than 400,000 visitors each month that read and, in many cases, print that month’s entire issue of Premier Guitar via its unique page turning software. The portal also offers, via its Gear Search function, viewers the opportunity to search an interactive database of more than 17,000 pieces of gear.

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Beverly Hills, CA (PRWEB) September 23, 2009

As the mavens of the fashion trend of gauged piercing begin to age and head out to the working world, a need for a new kind of earlobe reconstruction is emerging. Whether the ear is damaged from heavy or tugged earrings or extreme stretched cases, such as those with gauged piercing, the demand for earlobe repair is rapidly increasing and very few plastic surgeons can offer the expertise for corrective surgery. Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Ivan Thomas, M.D., F.A.C.S. has more than 15 years of experience in repairing stretched, split/damaged earlobes.

Originally ritualistic fashions from ancient and South African cultures, gauged piercings are ear piercings that involve disc like elaborate jewelry, which create larger openings in the earlobes. The larger openings are achieved through the stretching of the earlobes over a period of time by increasing the diameter of the disc jewelry. After the earlobes are stretched by gauges or “plugs,” they cannot retract back to their original state. Once the earlobe tissue has been stretched beyond its resistance, a string of dangling tissue is left over. This damage is irreversible and the only way to correct this problem is to turn to plastic surgery.

“This is a very challenging procedure, because there is not much ear tissue left,” said Dr. Thomas.

An emerging trend in gauged piercing has created a new need for a special type of earlobe reconstruction, which is approached with delicacy and uniqueness by Dr. Thomas. He will determine if earlobe reconstruction following a gauged piercing is an option. This will depend upon the individual case. Oftentimes, there is not enough “normal” earlobe tissue to operate. In order to correct the stretched earlobe, Dr. Thomas will need to reconstruct the existing earlobe tissue. To achieve this goal, he will create a normal curvature using this tissue, and then trim the left over skin.

A very detailed procedure, earlobe reconstruction can take anywhere from three to five hours in the operating room and is performed under general or local anesthesia. Typically, patients should anticipate up to a week of recovery time and can resume wearing earrings six months after surgery.

Besides performing earlobe correction following gauged piercing, Dr. Thomas has also performed hundreds of surgeries for traditional earlobe repairs. He corrects stretched and torn earlobes resulting from heavy jewelry, relentless tugging, and accidental tears. This type of repair is done by utilizing Dr. Thomas’ inverted “T” Incision technique. This technique is different than that of his unique earlobe correction for gauged piercing. Through the “T” Incision technique, he is able to create a hidden incision that prevents the wound from sinking, resulting in beautifully seamless repairs.

A leading board certified plastic surgeon of the Beverly Hills area, Dr. Thomas offers the most advanced techniques developed by years of experience and creativity at his Los Angeles and Lancaster practice. The finest care is provided in a comfortable, professional environment. One of few plastic surgeons who perform reconstructive, torn, and stretched earlobe repairs, Dr. Thomas has been featured on ABC for these unique corrective procedures. For before and after photos or to request an interview with Dr. Thomas, please contact Norma at (310) 203-8297.

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What happens when someone features guitar tabs on a Web site so musicians can learn to play their favorite songs? The posting is probably copyright infringement since publishers have licensed very few guitar tab sites. But publishers are facing even more pressing questions than whether they should sue the unauthorized sites: What is the best business model to compete with the free, unauthorized sites, and do current publishing contracts even cover the necessary rights to post tabs to the authorized sites?

The sale of print versions of guitar tabs is a multimillion-dollar business. Although publishers’ revenue is confidential, a source with a print publisher crunched some numbers for me based on information from a NAMM report, the company’s own revenue and the source’s estimate of competitors’ revenue.

According to a NAMM report, the North American print music market generated 9 million in retail sales in 2006. My source estimates that about 48% of that amount (8.7 million) was related to songs in about 2.7 million songbooks. About 16% of the song portion of the revenue was likely attributable to guitar tabs, thereby generating roughly .4 million in retail revenue from about 40 million individual guitar tabs. With wholesale prices typically 45%-50% of the retail price, print publishers likely received .6 million-.7 million in 2006 from print guitar tabs, which they then shared with songwriters and their publishers.

Currently, only three commercial guitar tab sites appear to be authorized by a large number of publishers. Each sells tabs as digital sheet music: FreeHand Music (FreeHand Systems), Musicnotes and SheetMusicDirect (Hal Leonard and Music Sales U.K.). Meanwhile, sites that may contain unlicensed tabs keep growing. From July 2006 to July 2007, unique monthly visitors grew for ultimate-guitar.com from 1.4 million to 2.4 million, and for 911tabs.com from 473,000 to 1.1 million, according to comScore Media Metrix.

In an attempt to compete with the free sites, Musicnotes acquired a previously unlicensed site, MXTabs.net, with plans to license the site’s database of tabs and add others, offer them for free and share ad revenue with publishers. Among the publishers that licensed rights for the site were BMG Music Publishing, Famous Music, Bug Music and peermusic.

But when Musicnotes made a deal with the Harry Fox Agency in May so that publishers could opt in to the licensing deal for MXTabs, Hal Leonard reacted negatively. It e-mailed some publishers to urge them to think carefully before licensing the “free” business model, which may include amateur (i.e., not necessarily accurate) guitar transcriptions of songs. Musicnotes posted the letter and its reply on the MXTabs site, which has not yet launched its service.

It’s unclear whether the reaction to the dispute is holding up the site. But the debate is unlikely to be resolved soon. It boils down to two questions: In light of all the illegal sites, should tabs be offered for free on ad-supported sites even though “free” may feed into a consumer demand for more free music, thus devaluing music? Or should legal action shutting down unauthorized sites and educational efforts be the strategy for publishers while building per-download or per-use sites for tabs?

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The Beatles: Rock Band X360 Wireless Rickenbacker 325 Guitar Controller

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As played by John Lennon, The Beatles: Rock Band Wireless Rickenbacker 325 Guitar Controller will feature an authentic whammy bar with chrome tip, a fast, accurate strum bar, five-way toggle switch, and auto-calibration sensor to make syncing up with any TV a breeze.

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Medford, OR (PRWEB) February 22, 2008

Boutique guitar retailer Private Reserve Guitars announced today that it is offering a re-creation of the Jimmy Page Les Paul Custom VOS Black Beauty guitar that has become a part of the lore surrounding Jimmy Page, the influential leader of the rock band Led Zeppelin. In the early days of the band, Page used the Les Paul Custom to compose and record some of Led Zeppelin’s early triumphs. However, the guitar was stolen at an airport in 1970. Ever since, Page has described the purloined guitar as “the one that got away.”

The artisans at Gibson‘s Custom Shop have re-created Page’s lost gem in two VOS – Vintage Original Spec – versions – the Jimmy Page Les Paul Custom VOS Electric Guitar with Bigsby tailpiece, and the Jimmy Page Les Paul Custom VOS Electric Guitar with Stoptail.

Each of the Jimmy Page Les Paul Custom guitars is given the special VOS treatment by the Gibson Custom Shop. The instrument is handcrafted for optimal comfort and playability. The construction, hardware, and electronics are period accurate, and a special nitrocellulose finish treatment gives it the patina of a gently aged vintage guitar.

The result is a striking Black Beauty with a slim-profile neck, Page BurstBucker pickups, and a gold Bigsby vibrato. Newly added is an innovative six-position toggle that lets the guitarist isolate the neck and bridge pickups, or add the middle in any combination. A push-pull switch splits the bridge humbucker into a single-coil–a Jimmy Page signature sound.

Limited to a production run of just 500 guitars worldwide, the Gibson Custom Shop Jimmy Page Les Paul Custom will likely become a collector’s item.

About Private Reserve Guitars

Private Reserve Guitars specializes in new and occasionally used high-end stringed instruments from respected luthiers worldwide along with a vast array of acoustic and electric guitar accessories. Private Reserve Guitars provides customers with photos and descriptions of individual guitars, as well as personal contact with a dedicated guitar tech to help them make their decisions on serialized instruments. Unlike other musical instrument boutiques, Private Reserve Guitars is backed by direct music dealer Musician’s Friend, whose 25 years of business bring vast experience and buying power to the high-end guitar market.

Located in Medford, Oregon with warehousing in Kansas City and a call center in Salt Lake City, Private Reserve Guitars can be contacted at 877-737-3781 and at http://www.privatereserveguitars.com.

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Taking private music lessons with guitar teachers is one of the quickest and most effective ways of mastering guitar. Don’t waste your time trying to teach yourself the basics with mediocre instructional DVDs – instead, find local guitar teachers and schedule a few lessons. Within weeks you’ll be familiar with the fundamentals of guitar, including common chords, scales, and tablature. You might even be able to play a song or two!

Here are three ultra-valuable benefits you’ll get from learning with a guitar teacher that you’d miss out on without one:

Guitar teachers provide instant feedback. One of the most important benefits of a guitar teacher is the ability to get constant and immediate feedback on you’re playing. Face it – as a beginner you’re bound to make lots of mistakes. However, if you don’t know you’re making them, you actually end up practicing and ingraining bad habits! Guitar teachers have been playing for years and can correct you the second you do something wrong. This means you waste less time picking up bad habits, and more time playing correctly and accurately.

Guitar teachers can answer your questions. Let’s say you’ve bought a 0 beginner guitar DVD. You’re making your way through the lessons, when all of a sudden there’s something taught that isn’t so clear. You rewind to watch it again, but you still don’t get it. What are you going to do? With a guitar teacher, you’ll never run into this problem. If you don’t understand something, simply ask the teacher to re-explain it. Guitar teachers are at your service and willing to help you with whatever you’re interested in, no matter how big or small of an issue it is. You won’t get that from impersonal DVDs and other similar programs.

Guitar teachers can assess your needs and develop a plan that fits you. In order to learn guitar effectively, you need personal attention and a personalized plan that will help you play towards you strengths and correct your weaknesses. If you’re not using a guitar teacher, you’re at the mercy of a “one size fits all” solution – and everybody knows that people learn at different rates and respond to different methods. A guitar teacher has the ability to see what you need help with, and can give you assignments that will help develop your skills naturally and sensibly.

Want to find guitar teachers near you? You can also find a list of local instructors as well as free beginner guitar lessons at FindGuitarTeachers.com.

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Learn And Master Guitar DvDs

There are many online guitar courses available on the Internet and unfortunately, most of them are crappy programs. On this webpage, we had reviewed the top guitar course:Learn And Master Guitar. Read up more about this awesome course and how you can get a MASSIVE 0 discount if you take action now.

Learn And Master Guitar

The Learn And Mster Guitar Course has won the 2008 Acoustic Guitar Magazine Players’ Choice Awards, 2 Telly Awards and an AEGIS Award for Excellence in Education. This is by no means an easy feat and goes to show that Learn And Master Guitar Dvd Lessons has been widely recognized as the best guitar instruction course for learning the guitar at home.

Learn And Master Guitar features Steve Krenz as your guitar instructor. Steve Krenz’s impressive resume includes performing with Grammy award winning artists such as Donna Summer, 5th Dimension and Tommy Simis. Apart from his active guitar playing experience, Steve Krenz is a commited and passionate guitar teacher who aims to help other guitarists excel in the instrument.

He frequently travels around the United States to conduct guitar and music workshops, helping thousands of guitar players improve on their guitar skills. With such a comprehensive teaching experience and knowledge, Steve Kreznz is the ideal guitar teacher to guide you through your guitar playing journey.

An overview of the lessons expected:

Learn and Master Guitar is perfect for anyone who wants to learn the guitar. This course covers everything from the very basics of guitar playing through the most advanced techniques.

 

 

Popular styles such as classical, rock, country, jazz and etc.. are taught with great depth in a series of step-by step detailed video guitar tutorials.

 

Our Review:

We found the lessons to be very professional and well structured. It’s simply amazing how Steve Krenz arranges each lesson with a logical, step-by-step format such that the student will never feel lost.

What we really liked about this course is that the different aspects of guitar playing are taught while playing to familiar melodies and recognizable guitar songs of all time. This injected a lot of fun and excitement while enabling the complete beginner guitarist to play the guitar almost instantly!

Intermediate guitar lessons such as scales, chord voicings, chord progressions, ear training, improvisation and different styles of guitar playing are also concisely covered in this course. The lessons are laid out in a manner which is challenging to stimulate us and yet simple enough such that we were never left frustrated. This made us feel like we had accomplished a great deal after each lesson and kept us motivated through the entire course.

In short, the quality of the guitar lessons is a clear *Winner*

L&MG provides terrific a 24/7 online support platform where students can interact, raise questions and receive advice from fellow students and the course instructors including Steve Krenz himself.

At  a price of USD9.00, this course is slightly more expensive than most of the other courses we had reviewed. However, if you are really serious in learning the guitar,this quality course is worth every single cent paid.

The Learn & Master Guitar Dvd Course is covered with a 60-day full fledged no questions asked refund policy. There is absolutely  NO RISK at all for you to try this course. Once you try this course and see REAL results, I guarantee you won’t be sending it back.

 

“Learn & Master Guitar is a phenomenal program. It’s clear and concise and watching the DVDs is like having your very own guitar instructor in the room with you. The course is extremely thorough and well planned out. It’s like having at least a year’s worth of guitar lessons in one complete package! I wish a program like this existed when I was learning to play-it would have saved me a lot of time and frustration!!!”

Learning Guitar for Dummies; Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay

This unintimidating video presents the basics of playing guitar in an easy-to-follow format. By simply watching the instructor on screen and following along, you can learn to form chords, fingerpick and strum in different patterns, and play songs in a variety of styles—all without reading music! Guitar for Dummies provides step-by-step instruction of all the skills needed to become an accomplished guitar player. You start by learning to play in tune and in rhythm and then move on to left-hand chords and right-hand strumming patterns. From there, you apply these techniques to several different musical styles, picking up tips and tricks on playing authentically in each style. Along the way, you learn how to develop your own practice routine and focus in on the areas you want to improve.
About the Instructor: Jon Chappell is an author, writer, and award-winning guitarist. He has served as editor-in-chief of Guitar Magazine and has performed with Graham Nash, Judy Collins, and Pat Benatar. He has published over 20 method books in seven different languages and is the author of The Recording Guitarist—A Guide for Home and Studio and two For Dummies books, Guitar for Dummies and Rock Guitar For Dummies.

Learning Guitar for Dummies (DVD)

This was the first DVD I ever bought on the subject. I ordered I even before I bought my first guitar, so I was a real beginner.

The pace is very slow, but as a beginner, I liked it that way. It helped me to feel like I had the potential to keep up. This was very important to me so that I wouldn’t give up.

Some may feel the pace of this DVD is too slow, but if you are interested in starting slowly… this may be just the right pace for you.

Eventually, I started collecting Guitar DVDs and I now have over 20, but this was the one that held my interest long enough to make it past the training wheel stages.

This DVD is great for people who have little or no experience with playing guitar and want to begin without investing in private lessons (private lessons are a good idea if you can afford them). The DVD contains basics such as posture, hand position, a few basic chords, and strumming. It even has a very basic introduction to fingerstyle (playing with your fingers instead of a pick).

I had taken a very basic class a few years ago, then taught myself barre chords and a few scales. I recently invested in a good mid-range guitar (Martin DC-16 GTE), so I picked up this dvd as a refresher. I found myself skipping to chapter 8 before I came to anything I hadn’t learned yet. So the title “Learning Guitar for Dummies” is apt. It is great for beginners as a SUPPLEMENT to private lessons. For intermediate players who are looking to build such skills as fingerstyle, barre chords, scales and improvisation, etc, you’ll need something a bit more advanced than this. I found myself more bored and drooling over the Taylor 814 CE he was playing than focusing on the really basic concepts he was presenting.

Other drawbacks of the video: 1) his singing is terrible 2) he doesn’t go over such basics as selecting and changing strings or some accessories that are helpful even for the novice (i.e. string winders, supplies for cleaning and maintaining the instrument- like a lint free cloth, a humidifier, etc). 3) in the video he does not always follow the suggested fingering shown in the chart on the screen (i.e. on a few of the songs he plays a G chord with the 1,2, and 4 fingers instead of the 1,2,3 as shown in the chart- I also prefer the 1,2,4 fingering, but this may be confusing to some beginners). Other than that it is a good introductory video for the beginner.

I used to take guitar lessons when I was about 15 years old. Learned some basic cords and could play a few songs. I had not picked up the guitar in many years. My 12 year old Daughter decided to learn to play the guitar so I got my old guitars out and started playing again. I ordered this DVD Learning Guitar for Dummies, by Jon Chappell and found it to be an excellent first lesson for the beginner guitar player. Not only did I learn some thing’s I did not know but my daughter sat through the whole DVD with her guitar. Jon has a great way of explaining things slowly and easily. I would recommend this DVD for any beginner guitar player. Even if you know nothing about the guitar, you will by the end of this DVD. I had also ordered another Guitar learning DVD and found it to be not nearly as good as this one. Two Thumbs up to this DVD! The only thing I was disappointed about was I could not find any other DVD’s put out by Jon Chappell.

My daughter aged 8yrs decided that she wanted to learn to play the guitar a couple of mnths ago. The middle of October (last month) we bought her one. Suprised to see how she could manage the frets she now has lessons at school, sadly it appears for this yr. only.
I puchased this DVD for her not really knowing what to expect only to find this Brilliant step by step guide, simplistic to follow in every way.
The DVD zooms in on the guitar itself and positioning on fingers on frets etc. at the right hand side of the screen is the cord Mr. Chappell is playing once again denoting where positioning of fingers should be.
Having had no previous experience at all our daughter found this DVD informative and extremely easy to follow as did her father, only unable to follow correctly at the 9th out of 10 chapters when “Fingerpicking” was introduced.

The Electric Guitar is one of the most popular music instrument which long has been used in many popular styles of music. There is hardly any music style where guitars are not used, in fact tunes of electronic guitars are practiced almost all genres of rock and roll, country music, jazz, blues, ambient and even contemporary classical music. The electric guitar can be played either solo or with other Musical Instruments. It uses pickups to convert the vibration of its steel-cored strings into electrical current, which is then amplified.

If we talk about the types of this famous music instrument, then there is no dearth of choices. Among different types: first one is solid body guitars which have holes for neither sound nor an internal cavity to accommodate vibration, such as those used to amplify string vibrations in acoustic guitars. They are generally made of hardwood with a lacquer coating and have 6 steel strings. Second type is Hollow body which have a hollow body and electronic pickups mounted on its body. The hollow body vibrates and the pickups convert a combination of string and body vibration into an electrical signal.

Next type is Electric-acoustic; in these guitars the pickups do not produce a signal directly from the vibration of the strings, but rather from the vibration of the guitar top or body. So, these are also called Acoustic guitars. There is also seven string electric guitars, eight string guitars which are rare, and twelve string instruments feature six pairs of strings, usually with each pair tuned to the same note.

Electronics guitar include the feature of both mechanics, electronics because they are originally developed by some electronic professionals, manufacturers. As it was earlier told, electric guitar is made up of solid bodies, and relies upon on electromagnetic pick-ups and amplifiers to provide sounds, but to increase sound these amplifiers are not depended upon any resonance or hollow body.

But while shopping for an electric guitar, the decision should be carefully taken according to your personal use.  If you do not have any knowledge about guitars then consult with someone who is well-informed about Amplifiers. Select the guitar according to your music style like if you play rock and blues, you can opt for a Fender Stratocaster or a Gibson Les Paul. Consider the acoustic electric guitars if you want to play jazz. While selecting the electric guitar ensure that it is comfortable and easy to play.

Also check out plug in various models and compare their tones and be attentive that differences in tone may be because of different Guitar Amplifiers as well as different guitars. Check out the neck warpage and also ensure that the strings are neither too high nor too close to the fingerboard for comfortable playing. Listen for how fast or slowly the guitar responds when you turn the volume knob up. If it’s too slow, consider another model. Now the best thing is that you can also check online music stores that offer exclusive range of electronic guitars, Bass Guitars and other Electronic Guitar Accessories at the competitive prices.

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The guitar is considered the friendliest musical instrument there is. It is because the guitar is the handiest musical instrument that could stand on its own. A group can enjoy music with just a guitar even without the accompaniment of winds and percussions. The term “acoustic” is referred to, in the music context of today, the rendition of songs in all the glory of guitars. No percussion and piano and other instruments needed, just guitars. Sometimes, it can be the jamming of more than just one guitar. Acoustic is a favorite type of music today because of its relaxed and soulful rendition of songs.

The guitar can be carried everywhere and is one of the easiest instrument to be learned in no time. All you need is a songbook or song hits and you’re ready to take the stage and perform to your heart’s desire. It may sound so easy and can be done in a snap, however, playing a guitar is an art that needs to be perfected with constant practice. There are basic steps you need to know before mastering playing the guitar.

Basically, a guitar is like a friend you need to familiarize yourself with. Get to know the guitar and you’ll be able to make good music together. For beginners, the first lesson starts with getting to know the guitar and its parts. Some examples of different types of guitars are the electric guitar, the base guitar, the 12-string guitars and the non-electric acoustical guitar.

Parts of a guitar:

Head – is where the tuning keys are found. The strings are wound up around pegs which can be twisted to loosen or tighten the strings.

Tuning Keys – are the keys which hold the strings. These keys are twisted to adjust the tones of the strings

Nut – found at the edge of the fret board on which the strings pass before wrapping around the tuning keys

Fret board – is where pitch and expression of the tones are controlled.

Frets – 19 divisions on which fingers are placed

Little Metallic Bars/Fret bars – thin metallic bars dividing the frets

Neck – accommodates the fret board

Sounding Board – the body of the guitar

Sounding Hole (Rosette) – sounds produced are resonated. This serves as the amplifier of the acoustical guitar

Strings – are of different sizes made up of either steel or nylon which are the foremost cause of sounds

Bridge – the part where the strings are attached opposite. It is found at the body of the guitar.

Tuning the guitar is the next thing a guitar player should know. It is where he can further intensify his mastery and familiarity with the guitar. It is a gift if a person has the remarkable natural ability of hearing. He can determine if the guitar has good quality through hearing its tune for the first time. However, there are people who do not posses that certain gift. But there are other ways of tuning the guitar. One way is the ordinary method.

The first step to the ordinary method of tuning the guitar is finding a tuning instrument like a piano or an organ to base the tune.

·The E chord or the 6th string should be based on the sound of the lower “mi” key of the piano or organ.

·Press the same string on the fifth fret, which makes it the A and base its sound on the sound of the “la” key of the piano or organ.

·Press the 5th string on the fifth fret, which makes it the D and base its sound on the sound of the “re” key of the piano or organ.

·Press the 4th string on the fifth fret, which makes it the G and base its sound on the sound of the “so” key of the piano or organ.

·Press the 3rd string on the fourth fret, which makes it the B and base its sound on the “ti” key of the piano or organ.

·Press the 2nd string on the 5th fret, which makes it the e and base its sound on the higher “mi” key of the piano or keyboard.

Make sure that every string’s tune sounds just like the sound of its corresponding key on the keyboard. And with that, you now know how to tune your guitar!

Knowing the parts of a guitar and learning how to tune it are vital aspects in picking or choosing very good quality of guitar. In choosing your own guitar, you must first try the accuracy of the frets. To do this, you must tighten all the six strings and check to hear a full tone when strummed or plucked.

Then do a complete scale for each string by, first, plucking the open string, then press the 2nd fret (of the same string), then the fourth fret, fifth fret, seventh fret, ninth fret, eleventh fret and twelfth fret. Each scale must produce the exact sound of the musical scale: do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do. The sound when the twelfth fret is pressed must be one octave higher than the sound when the open string is plucked. This process is called the mechanical test.

After completing the mechanical test, the next step is tuning the guitar. Since you already know the process in tuning, what you must achieve is to look for the fullness or roundness of the tone and not the loudness.

Lastly, the next thing you must consider in finding the best guitar for you is the comfort you will achieve while playing it. Choose a guitar that would require you to exert minimal pressure in pressing the frets in order to produce a full and booming sound. In this way, you would avoid blistering your fingertips which would make your practices easy, enjoyable and painless.

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Lemon Grove, CA (PRWEB) March 26, 2007

Guitar Warehouse has just completed work on two new niche websites designed for electric guitar players and drummers. The first site focuses one Gibson Les Paul guitars as well as Gibson‘s other electric, acoustic, and bluegrass guitars.

“We’ve set up our new site to include every possible Gibson Guitars and accessories available from the Gibson Guitar company” say Bill McRea Owner of Guitar Warehouse.

The site includes a complete selection of Gibson guitars both custom and standard, but also includes guitar straps, amps, replacement parts, bass guitars, and blue grass instruments. The product line includes Gibson’s SG Guitars, Explorers, Flying V’s, Baritone guitars and hollow bodies. All products can be purchased directly from the website, and qualifies for the company’s free freight and price guarantee.

Similarly www.drumsetandsticks.com has been constructed to provide drummers and percussionist with the largest selection of drum sets, kits, cymbals, electronic kits, drumheads, drumsticks, world percussion and much more. The site is organized and simple to navigate without a lot of features that slow down the use of the site.

“Our Drum Sets and Stick website was created to give the percussionist a home of their own. This site has percussion and nothing else”, say Bill McRea.

In total Guitar Warehouse, and its affiliated websites provide consumers over 40,000 musical instrument products, but Guitar Warehouse also offers more than selection. With a liberal return policy, free freight on most items and a 45 day best price guarantee, Guitar Warehouse is quickly becoming a premier supplier of guitars and musical instruments.

For more information about the company and its new products, visit our Gibson Les Paul website, our Drum Sets website, or go direct to www.guitarwarehouse.com.

About Guitar Warehouse:

Formerly known as 24hourguitar.com, Guitar Warehouse has been in business since 2002. Guitar Warehouse focuses on providing musicians with the largest possible selection of products and premium customer service. Guitar Warehouse is know for have a huge selection of electric guitars. The online retail operation is owned and operated by McRea Site Development, based in Lemon Grove, Calif. Gibson Les Paul guitars can be purchase from Guitar Warehouse.

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Bill McRea, Owner

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Lemon Grove, CA (PRWEB) April 18, 2007

Guitar Warehouse has just started a free electric guitar giveaway for 3 premium quality electric guitars. Members of Guitar Warehouse’s mailing list will be eligible for 3 drawings scheduled to be conducted on June 30, 2007, September 31, 2007 and December 15, 2007.

There is no purchase required, just sign up for the mailing list and as long as you are on the list you will be eligible for any of these and future giveaways.

“I want people to have a chance to play the same guitars I love to play” says Bill McRea, Owner of Guitar Warehouse. “Each guitar has been selected based on style, tone and playability”

The June 30, 2007 drawing will be for the famous Standard Fender Stratocaster. This is the type of guitar played by Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughn and a host of well know blues and rock guitarist.

The September 31, 2007 drawing will be for a Washburn IDOL, one of Bill McRea favorite guitars, know for the classic looks and wide range of tonal possibilities.

The final drawing will be for a PRS Custom 24 worth over $ 3,000. PRS Guitars are world renowned for their playability and are amongst the most popular guitars used by touring professional musicians.

Drawings will be conduct by a program that will search through the company’s mailing list and randomly select the winner. Winners will be announced shortly after the drawing, and the guitar will be delivered within 30 days from the date of drawing.

In total Guitar Warehouse, and its affiliated websites provide consumers over 40,000 musical instrument products, but Guitar Warehouse also offers more than selection. With a liberal return policy, free freight on most items and a 45 day best price guarantee, Guitar Warehouse is quickly becoming a premier supplier of guitars and musical instruments.

For more information about the company and its new products, visit our website for Electric Guitars, Bass, drums and all your musical instruments.

About Guitar Warehouse:

Formerly known as 24hourguitar.com, Guitar Warehouse has been in business since 2002. Guitar Warehouse focuses on providing musicians with the largest possible selection of products and premium customer service. Guitar Warehouse is know for have a huge selection of electric guitars. The online retail operation is owned and operated by McRea Site Development, based in Lemon Grove, Calif. Gibson Les Paul guitars can be purchase from Guitar Warehouse.

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Playing your first chords

 

When you first pick up the electric guitar and are unsure exactly what to do with it, one of the first things you will generally learn are some simple chords.

So, just what is a chord, anyway?

Technically, a chord is a set of harmonically related notes, played simultaneously.  To be less academic about it, a chord is what happens when you strum several strings together to create a pleasing sound.

The first chords you will learn here are known as Open Chords.  These chords take advantage of the open strings.

There is another type of chord known as a Barre Chord.  These chords involve pressing one or more fingers down across several strings.  Because barre chords involve no open strings, the same shapes can be moved up and down the neck to create a chord in any key.  In theory they are not any more complex to play than an open chord.  However, they do require more strength in the fingering hand, which can make them frustrating for very new guitarists.  This is only a problem for beginner guitarists, after a brief time learning electric guitar you will quickly have enough strength not to be bothered by having to barre a chord.

Chords are named after their root note.  The root note is just what musicians the note around which the chord is built.  They come in two basic varieties, major and minor.  A major chord can be said to have a “strong”, “bright” and “happy” sound, while a minor chord has a comparitively “darker” or more “melancholy” sound.

To start with here, for your first chords, we will play 3 different major open chords.  For help reading the chord charts, see my post on how to read chord charts.  And now, without any further ado, here are the chords:

To play an Open E, place your index finger on the G string at the first fret, place your middle finger on the A string at the second fret, and place your ring finger on the D string at the second fret.  Then play every string and let the chord ring out.  You’ve just played an open E!

To play an Open A, place your middle finger on the D string at the second fret, place your ring finger on the G string at the second fret, and place your pinky on B string at the second fret.  Then play every string except for the low E.

To play an Open D, place your index finger on the G string at the second fret, place your middle finger on the high E string at the second fret, and place your ring finger on the B string at the third fret.  Then sound the 4 high strings, leaving the low E and the A strings unplayed.

That’s it, you now know three chords on the electric guitar! If they feel a bit awkward at first, that’s okay.  Keep playing through them so that they feel a bit more natural, and stay tuned for more posts on how to use these three chords to play a song.

 

Gibson‘s Top 50 guitarists of all time – 50 to 41

 

The Gibson guitar company is compiling a list of the top 50 guitarists of all time.  They’ve got their list from some fairly inscrutable process involving votes from their website’s readers, and from their own team of judges.  They are releasing their results ten at a time, so here are guitarists #50 to #41- I’ve included a little bit of information about each guitarist.

49. (tie) Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple, Rainbow, Blackmore’s night)

One of the most influential guitarists of all time, who managed to combine raucous blues-rock riffing with european classical inspired phrases in a way that nobody had attempted before.  His raw panache, affinity for the harmonic minor scale and love for the Fender Stratocaster inspired many guitarists throughout the years, including a young Yngwie Malmsteen.  A truly prolific and prodigious performer, he is probably most widely known for writing the instantly recognisable riff to Smoke on the Water, as well as for his much-publicised disputes with his bandmates.

49. (tie) Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)

Though not a master technician by any stretch, and an extremely unlikely guitar hero, for a brief time in the early 1990s this guy probably did more to prompt young kids to learn guitar than anybody else on the planet.  His band Nirvana was the flagship band of the grunge movement, which combined punk and alternative attitude with much of the riffmanship of hard rock and early heavy metal.  He was known for playing heavily modified, discontinued Fender guitars, and an ever changing variety of amps and effects.

47. (tie) Robert Fripp (King Crimson, solo)

Robert Fripp is not the pioneer of progressive rock guitar, but over the years he has probably become it’s principal exponent.  A left-hander who plays right-handed guitars, he is notable for being one of the few famous guitarists to emerge from the late 60s and early 70s without a significant blues influence in his playing.  His crossing of avant-garde jazz and european classical ideas with rock instrumentation became a key part of progressive rock and jazz fusion.

47. (tie) Andrés Segovia

A spanish classical guitarist born in the nineteenth century, he influenced classical guitar both as a performer and as a transcriptionist, teacher and arranger.  The video recording of him playing live at the Alhambra are an excellent introduction to his work.

42. (tie) Hubert Sumlin (Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters)

A blues guitarist and singer from Arkansas, whose work with Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters managed to influence Jimmy Page, Robbie Robertson, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, Keith Richards and Joe Perry.  At 78 years old, and despite health complications, he is still touring.

42. (tie) Clarence White (Nashville West, Muleskinner, The Kentucky Colonels, The Byrds)

Clarence White was a bluegrass guitarist who moved to Los Angeles to find work as a session player.  By joining The Byrds he became one of the key influences in marrying country music to rock.

42. (tie) Rory Gallagher (Taste, solo)

An Irish blues-rock guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, who formed the band Taste in the 1960s and performed solo for decades after.  Along with Van Morrison and Phil Lynott, he was among the first Irish musicians to become famous by performing blues-based rock.  Such was his influence on the genre that David Coverdale invited him to replace Ritchie Blackmore in Deep Purple, although he chose instead to pursue his solo career.

42. (tie) John Frusciante (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

After replacing Hilel Slovak as the guitarist for funk-rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, he found himself launched into mainstream celebrity after their breakthrough album Blood Sugar Sex Magic.  Drug problems saw him replaced for some years by Jane’s Addiction’s Dave Navarro, though he has since returned to the band.

42. (tie) Richard Thompson

An electric folk player from the 60s who still performs today.  A performer in his own right, he has also written songs for artists as diverse as Dave Gilmour, Bonnie Raitt and The Corrs.
41. David Gilmour (Pink Floyd, solo)

A progressive rock guitarist who has influenced players for decades ever since joining Pink Floyd in the early days of the band when led by fellow guitarist Syd Barrett.  While he is often cited for his innovative use of effects and adventurous song ideas, the lead guitar playing which he is most noted for is deeply rooted in the blues.

 

So why learn to play guitar?

For many of us, our decision to learn guitar is not something we ever thought about too hard.  It was almost as though it was made for us.. we just knew that it was something we had to do.  For other people though, it’s something they will need to find some logical reasons to do it.  Here are some of the best reasons why you would want to learn to play electric guitar.

It will make you smarter

Studies have shown that kids who learn musical instruments do better in school.  An interview with over 1000 CEOs and congressmen found that over 90% said that playing a musical instrument helped them “develop character and leadership skills”.  It’s not to see why.. learning a musical instrument will improve your concentration, your hand eye coordination, and makes you think for yourself.

It’s a good way to connect with other people

Playing guitar can seem like it might be a solitary activity.. and when you just feel like chilling out on your own, it can be.  But it also provides so many chances to meet new people, and make friends that last a lifetime!  Playing in a band, jamming at jam sessions, having a bash at an open mic night all get you out of the house, socialising and

If you want to learn some fast guitar picking you will find plenty of advice on the internet. Do a web search on “fast guitar picking” or “guitar shredding” and you will find exercises and advice on guitar forums and websites. Fast guitar picking comes with accurate guitar picking.

If you learn to play scales and riffs slowly, giving a good, clean sound, you will gradually be able to increase your speed and start to work specifically on your fast guitar picking. It’s the most natural thing in the world to want to play the guitar fast, in terms of technical progress as well as picking, but if you don’t work on the quality of your playing first, the speed will not develop.

Bad guitar playing, if it is practiced daily, can become a habit. We all know the guy who is always trying to play at lightning speed but whose playing is mostly the sound of fluffed notes. If you make it a habit of trying to play faster than your body is able to handle, you will develop the habit of playing badly.

The trouble is, it’s human nature to overlook mistakes. If we stopped every time we make a mistake we’d never get anywhere. But if we make overlooking our mistakes a constant theme in our guitar practice, then our body will eventually accept that this is the way to play the guitar. To get into this kind of practice routine will put an end to any possibility of fast guitar picking becoming a reality for you.

Okay, because the way we learn to play guitar is based on repetition, we need to work in a way that makes sure we are not repeating our mistakes. Every time you make a mistake you need to go back and play the scale or exercise a little more slowly with the goal being to play more cleanly and accurately.

When you are practicing to increase your guitar picking speed, play for around fifteen minutes. By this time your picking hand will be starting to wish it was somewhere else, so give it some rest. The aim here is to give your picking hand a boost – to give it some kind of talent that it didn’t have before. This kind of practice must be done every day without thinking about when you will be able to stop. When your guitar playing reaches a new level, you will know that you can ease off a little. This level of playing will sneak up on you as you suddenly realize that you are now a naturally fast guitar picker.

One important thing here is to remember to play exercises based on music that you enjoy playing. Whether you are a jazz, rock, pop or blues playing, orient your fast guitar picking practice to your favorite style.

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Official Johnny Ramone Guitars and Electric Guitar String Line Launches Worldwide

Johnny Ramone Guitars & custom case by Hallmark Guitars USA

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) October 8, 2010

Over the years many have claimed to deliver guitars authentically modeled after Johnny’s weapon of choice, but look no further… they’ve arrived. These top of the line guitars are painstakingly perfected to maximize performance; and in the true spirit of the Ramones, they’re affordably priced, without compromising quality, in an effort to make them accessible to all who will truly appreciate them.

Remaining authentic to their vintage roots, the all-new official Johnny Ramone guitars are brought to you by Hallmark Guitars USA, a company founded in 1965 by one of the core designers of Johnny’s famed 6-string originally purchased in NYC back in 1974.

Many guitar enthusiasts are unaware that Johnny Ramone used a rare, early 1965 prototype model of a Ventures II, a guitar utilizing a core design by Hallmark founder Joe Hall. This early prototype was quickly pulled by the manufacturer and replaced with a substantially different model. It’s been estimated that only 25 pieces of the original Ventures II prototypes were assembled and sold before production ceased. This was the model specifically used by Johnny Ramone to change the face of music. It’s been gone ever since. Now, its back…

Setting them apart from those who market nothing more than a brand name under an acquired franchise, Hallmark Guitars reap the benefit of direct involvement from key players who literally worked hands-on the production, and created the design of the original guitar developed in the 1960’s. Acclaimed custom guitar builder/designer, and current Hallmark President, Bob Shade spearheads the company optimizing the potential of Johnny’s model for a present day criterion without diluting its classic sound. Hallmark has even developed new improvements, never employed on the old designs. While seamless aesthetically, these modifications perfect audible performance and resolve many issues inherent in the original model (and those that followed in its footsteps later), while still maintaining its unique, vintage tone that’s unmistakably the guitar voice of the legendary Johnny Ramone.

In addition to an incredible guitar at and affordable price, the all-new Official Johnny Ramone model guitars are available in various special editions with features such as, Johnny’s facsimile signature on the pick guard, official Johnny Ramone Army headstock (featuring a portrait of Johnny by world renowned artist Shepard Fairey of Obey/Giant), special Ltd. Ed. camouflage JRA finish, period pickup choices, plus a variety of custom logo cases, including alligator skin with official Johnny Ramone eagle seal emblazoned in gold ink.

Fall-in Johnny Commandos, perfect your down-stroke and make some history of your own with the all-new, Official Johnny Ramone Guitars available now from Hallmark Guitars USA.

Retailers interested in carrying Official Johnny Ramone Guitars, please contact Hallmark Guitars USA at 1-240-473-1157 to order worldwide, or click here to send them an email.

Dean Markley Strings joins forces with the Johnny Ramone Army to exclusively offer Commandos worldwide the unique opportunity to secure the exact gauges and proprietary alloys used by the rock icon himself, in creating one of the most highly sought after guitar sounds in the world. Guaranteed 100% authentic, Johnny Ramone guitar strings are available now for the first time anywhere, only from Dean Markley.

Johnny Ramone invented the relentless; down stroke guitar style, defining the groundbreaking sound of the legendary Ramones and the guitar voice of the punk rock movement in general. Listed in Time Magazine’s “10 greatest electric guitar players” and named #16 in Rolling Stone Magazine’s top 100 guitarists of all-time, Johnny was the driving force behind the Ramones, sometimes referred to as a drill sergeant, bringing order and regiment to the band. This is evident in the speed, accuracy and intensity of their music. Johnny kept the Ramones focused and moving forward, ultimately securing their place in rock history. The Ramones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002 and their popularity only continues to grow as each year passes. Johnny’s strength endures, remaining timeless and immortal, along with the music and aesthetic he created with the world famous Ramones.

Official Johnny Ramone electric guitar strings by Dean Markley are now shipping worldwide! Expect them to arrive in stores late Fall 2010. Visit your local music shop and ask for them by name… You’ll also find them in the JRA online store in the coming weeks.

Retailers interested in carrying official Johnny Ramone “Commando Gauge” Guitar Strings please contact Dean Markley Strings Toll-free: 800 800 1008 or click here to contact them by email and place wholesale orders from anywhere in the world.

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Guitar strings come in different types. The strings you choose for your guitar should be based on the type of instrument you own, your playing level and also the music style you play. The main four classifications of guitar &#150; classical, acoustic, electric and bass &#150; all have specific strings. The main differences between the guitar strings involve the materials, the construction technique used as well as the physical attributes; all of which depend on the kind of instrument they are designed for and the characteristics chosen by the guitar player.

Gauge and Construction

Gauge is the thickness of a string and is traditionally quoted in thousandths of an inch (e.g. .010&#148;). However, you will often see this written simply as 10. Usually guitar strings are provided in packets of matched strings. Sometimes these are referenced by the top string only (e.g. 10), or by the top and bottom strings (e.g. 10-46). Because gauge of a string has a direct relationship to its weight then the same packets may also be referenced using weight (e.g. Light). However, different manufacturers use different standards and construction techniques so this should be checked individually.

Guitar strings are usually single lengths of plain wire (top strings) or have a wire core with an additional wire winding (bottom strings). These wound strings may also differ in construction with the most common being roundwound. This refers to the cross-section of the wire used in the winding. Other less common types are flatwound but these tend to be more expensive. Nowadays also a string may be coated or un-coated. This coating is a very thin layer of additional material which protects the string against corrosion and wear.

Whereby the characteristics of gauge and construction can be applied to all types of guitar strings, the main differences for individual instruments occur with the actual materials used.

Electric Guitar Strings

Nearly all of these guitar strings are made from a steel core. The most popular type of winding is nickel plated steel. These produce a bright tone and are suitable for all types of music. Less common are a pure nickel winding (offering a warmer, more vintage sound) and chrome or stainless steel. These latter ones giving a clear, punchy sound often preferred by fusion and jazz players.

Bass Guitar Strings

These guitar strings naturally use the bigger gauges to give that distinctive low end tone. As with electric strings they are typically made from a steel core. The most common types of winding are made from stainless steel or nickel. An important consideration when choosing bass strings is scale length. This is the length of string which must be used to match each individual instrument. Scale lengths vary from short (30&#148;/760mm) to extra long (up to 36&#148;/915mm).

Acoustic Guitar Strings

As with electric and bass guitar strings, these too are typically made from a steel core. Popular types of winding are made from bronze or from phosphor bronze (the latter has a significant phosphor content added to the bronze alloy). Bronze strings have good sound projection, bright tones and deep bass response. Phosphor bronze offer an overall balanced tone coupled with longer life.

Classical Guitar Strings

These strings differ from all the above in so much as they don&#146;t use a steel core. Instead they use a nylon core with typically either a silver or bronze winding on the bass strings. Nylon is the modern day equivalent material to the traditional gut. This results in a crisper, brighter tone normally associated with classical music. Nylon guitar strings are usually referenced by tension, with low being suitable for beginners and high for advanced players.

Conclusion

There is a dazzling amount of different guitar strings available on the market today, and choosing the right ones to suit the individual can be difficult. If you are a beginner then it is best to start with a light set (e.g. 10-46). These are easy to play and require less pressure to hold down. Conversely if you are an intermediate or advanced player then you can choose a medium or even heavy weight. Furthermore you can even customise your guitar by fitting single strings of a chosen gauge to suit your own playing style and preferred type of music.

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The most important thing you need to check when choosing which guitar to buy is what they call “playability”.

That is, is it easy to press the strings down onto the fretboard when you are playing chords and notes. As a beginner, forget about what the guitar looks like or what it sounds like. Playability is all you need to worry about, nothing else.

Many people try to learn the guitar and give up. They decide it’s just too hard. It’s true that it’s not so easy to learn guitar, and if your guitar has poor playability the job just becomes harder. Impossible maybe.

I’m a guitar teacher and the best advice I can give to any beginner, regardless of age, is forget about what your new instrument looks like and sounds like. Get yourself a guitar that feels good when you hold it and which has the strings set low, close to the fretboard. That’s all you need to worry about.

Your fingertips will be sore until the skin toughens up, but if your guitar has good playability the fingers themselves will remain pain-free. This means you won’t be reluctant to pick the instrument up for your daily practice session.

A guitar with good playability helps you learn faster, and when you know how to play guitar it helps you play better. Regardless of how good a guitarist you are, a guitar with poor playability will always make playing of chords and note more difficult, and this is especially true if you are trying something fast.

Will you be buying an acoustic or an electric guitar? For a beginner an acoustic is usually the better choice. You don’t have to buy an amplifier, so you save money there, and you don’t have to set the amplifier up every time you want to practice. You also don’t have to worry about the neighbors complaining about the noise. A beginner playing an amplified guitar is, to tell the truth, not something that any neighbor deserves.

When you’ve chosen the guitar that’s right for you, be sure you also buy a guitar stand. With your guitar always sitting on its stand, looking at you as it were, you are unlikely to forget your daily practice session.

It’s pretty hard the first two or three weeks. Your fingertips will be sore, and maybe you will be wondering what you have got yourself into. But you will remember, I hope, that you love guitar music and you are determined to be a guitarist.

Anything is hard to start with, and that includes guitar playing.  The guitarists you admire most all started off like you, with no ability except ten fingers and a will to succeed.

You should make up your mind to practice half an hour a day, no matter what. Half an hour a day, every day, come rain or come shine. It will drive you nuts sometimes, sometimes you will hate the thought of picking up the damn guitar, and that’s where your rule applies more than ever: half an hour a day, every day.

Then one, day, not too far away as it happens, you will find you are a guitarist and not just a beginner guitarist.

Some people learn faster than others. Don’t compare yourself with anybody. Just focus on the journey and the destination. Why are you learning guitar? To be an accompanist or to play solo? A bit of both maybe?

Whatever your goal is, everyone starts at square one. Just keep playing away and for sure you will get where you are headed. But remember, a guitar with good playability will make the journey easier and shorter.

To make choosing a guitar easier there is actually a range of guitars, in the medium price range, which are customized by hand for maximum playability. They’re not at your music store, they only come direct from the supplier, Zager Guitars in Lincoln, Nebraska.

What you can do is pick a guitar from the website and have it delivered. If it’s not exactly what you want you just return it and get all your money back, including the shipping cost both ways. Zager Guitars are at www.zager-guitar.info.

Choosing a guitar with good playability is your first step on the road to becoming a guitarist. Don’t put a foot wrong.

 

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There is a wealth of guitar accessories available and many manufacturers make the same type of product. Many products come do the same thing but have large differences in price point so this can sometimes be confusing for many new guitarists.

The old saying “You get what you pay for” does ring true in some circumstances but the volume and quality of guitar accessories available are ever becoming harder to distinguish. For example: If you were buying a product made of a solid wood, this would cost much more than a product made of plywood, why? Simply because the raw materials are more expensive.

The guitar accessories I am going to talk about are guitar plectrums and guitar strings.

Guitar Plectrums (Picks) are usually small triangular pieces of plastic that you use to strike the strings of your guitar with. Plectrums have many different thicknesses, materials, and sizes that all factor into the job they do, these variants create a different sound. More thinner and flexible plectrums generally are best suited to playing rhythm guitar, as they pass the strings quickly with less resistance. You’ll also hear a lot more of a flicking sound (a little like a scratch) as they pass over the string that is to some, desirable. This only really happens with the thinnest of plectrums.

The thicker picks can be used more for lead guitar playing, as they produce a good amount of attack. They generally produce a more even sound and you get less flicking sound as they pass the strings. However, the sound you produce will differ, dependant on how hard your plectrum grip is. If you have a rigid grip a thinner plectrum may be beneficial as trying to play fast with a thick plectrum could be tricky.

The plectrums I use are the Dava Control’s. The have a thinner central area that alters how hard the pick is dependant of how close to the tip you hold it. So I suppose you could call it a combination thickness plectrum. Guitar Plectrums only cost a few pence anyway so I would recommend getting a few different ones and try them out to see what you like best.

Guitar Strings come in different gauges, the first question you will be asked when you go into a music shop to buy a replacement set of strings is “what gauge do you want?”

String gauge affects the tone and the playability of your guitar. If you have a higher gauge string, there is greater tension. Heavy gauge strings generate a higher volume, however the greater the tension, the more finger pressure is needed to fret the strings properly.

One major benefit of higher tension strings is that they vibrate in a shallower fashion, which allows closer adjustment to the fret board before getting string buzzes. A pretty standard Acoustic guitar string gauge is 12-54, and 9-42 on electric guitars. Altering your string gauge may require adjustment to your guitar in order to maintain the same action (Height between the string and fret board). On the flip side, lower string tension will cause the strings to lie lower which may result in buzzing, but if you already have a high action then you could solve that problem with a new set of strings.

I actually prefer a medium gauge (a set of 10’s) string as it produces a more reliable string bend. The ones I use are the D’addario XL’s 10- 46 (regular light gauge) on my electric guitars and on my acoustic guitars I always use Brass wound D’addario EJ16 Light (Gauge 12-53). Brass strings produce a rich bright tonality that lasts well.

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Many people unfortunately fall for the rumors that are being spread by salesmen in guitar shops and by other employees with a superficial knowledge. I can only assume that those salesmen and employees never really tested things out, or probably never even had a guitar in their hands.

I speak from experience when I say that both many salesmen are telling their customers some stuff that actually is completely not (or not quite) true and that mostly the opposite of what they are saying is the case.

So, let’s come to the statement that strings noticeably lose sound with decreasing gauge. Over the years I made some experiences with different gauges and with different types of strings, too. For many years I have played 010-013-017-026W-036W-046W strings by the producer D’Addario that were relatively rigid. In Logic (the music and studio software that I use) you could always see in the waveform graphics that there was a very slight overload when I picked the low e-string (also known as the 6th string). The overload lamp on my interface lit up shortly when I played that exact note.

A few years later I changed to 009-011-016-024W-032W-042W strings — also by the producer D’Addario. The difference was none at all. Neither was there a difference in the sound, nor in the graphics, nor could you detect a difference by the response of the overload lamp.

Lately I stringed my guitar with 008-011-014-022W-030W-038W strings by Picato and shortly after by Ernie Ball, which are also generally a lot softer than D’Addario strings. Well, this time I actually was a little worried about the outcome, and I desperately hoped that I wouldn’t have to reset all my amp and interface settings — and I probably would have to because I really wanted to have these 008 strings. A salesman already advised me against these thin strings, but I didn’t care — firstly, I absolutely wanted to play them and furthermore, I already knew that in that guitar shop the employees were not as competent as they pretended to be.

So I tried them out and guess what? I exactly verified the individual aspects that might indicate a sound loss. First of all I tested diverse amp settings I had been using, and interestingly no difference was audible. Of course the audible part is the most important one, but I wanted to know if there was any sound loss at all, too. Well, the overload lamp as usual lit up shortly when I picked the low e-string, and I also checked the waveform graphics. They still told me there was that slight overload when I picked the 6th string.

And if you think something is wrong with my analysis I can reassure you. Of course there has to be some sound loss with thinner strings, but it is so insignificant and minimal that you neither perceive it, nor can you proof it with normal studio measuring instruments.

Therefore I have some good news for all those who always would have liked to play thin strings like for instance a 008-011-014-022W-030W-038W set or so (for these strings are extraordinary pleasant to play), but never dared to as they didn’t want to put up with significant sound losses: In my experience there is no significant or audible sound loss, so get the strings you really want to play!

Recently, my brother and I recorded the brilliant “White Room” by Cream and shot a video as well. In this video and on the recordings I played 008-011-014-022W-030W-038W strings by Ernie Ball on my Fender Strat. So, if you want to know how these strings really sound, click the following link and see how powerful they really are: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFmOFGkdq5A

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It feels really exciting thinking about buying a musical instrument, especially if it is a guitar. It is such a charming instrument that fills our life with rhythm. The excitement is much more in case of buying it for the first time. But the first time buyer has to be very conscious as compared to old buyer. The decision and the search have to be wise to make the right choice which will not only save time but money too. Some homework is necessary before hitting the guitar store. Here are some guitar buying tips that will hopefully help the guitar lovers while buying one.

Guitar Buying Tips – I

What kind of guitar: The first and foremost homework is to decide about the kind of guitar needed. Whether it is an Acoustic guitar, an Electric guitar, or a Classical guitar. Basically the choice depends on the type of music to be learned. Like in case of rock music, electric guitar is the perfect one. If your interest is towards classical or folk, acoustic guitar will be the best choice. Here, one vital point should be mentioned that for the beginners, acoustic guitars are the best and is quite cheap as compared to electric guitar.

Guitar Buying Tips – II

New or Used: Next thing to decide is whether to buy a new one or a used one i.e., second hand. This is mainly depends on the budget and the quality of the guitar to be purchased. If the budget is low then it is better to go for second hand model but then the quality must be checked properly. In this case it is better to refer a guitar expert who can test the instrument properly or make sure you buy it from a reliable online dealer.

Guitar Buying Tips – III

Brands and models: Then comes, researching the brands and the models of the guitar. There are lots of brands available in the market and therefore, it is better to examine them before settling to buy one. Even the age factor of the player matters here. Like, for the adults, full size guitar will match. But for the children, the guitar size will be half and 3/4th. Then there is variety of models, which too need some good research. They have different body styles, pickups bridge, neck joints that have to be checked.

The research also includes examining the material of the guitar, i.e., the wood, as guitars are made up of various types of wood.

Guitar Buying Tips – IV

Check for performance: Now, after the choice is done in everyway, then comes sensing the performance. Before buying the guitar, it is necessary to check the performance of the instrument, by playing it for sometime. This way it can be found out whether the player is comfortable playing and handling it and whether it sounds well. In case of the beginners, the perfect one will be the low action acoustic guitar, which is quite easy to handle.

Guitar Buying Tips – V

Where to buy from: To save some money and time, buying guitar online is the best process to follow. But keeping in mind to find out the company’s return policy. Different companies have different return policy, which gives their customer time to assess the guitar and to check whether everything is according to their requirements. They even offer reasonable price, including free delivery and money back guarantee or exchange offer.

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Fundamentally, acoustic guitar strings have been around longer than any other type of guitar string. They have evolved into one of the most critical components of the acoustic scene. Technology has taken the tone capabilities of the acoustic guitar string to new levels. There are many choices, sometimes leaving musicians confused at times. We are going to discuss one aspect of acoustic guitar strings in this writing…Metal.

It’s about metal…

What makes an acoustic guitar string different than electric guitar strings? Metal. Electric guitar strings utilize ferromagnetic metals, namely steel, to allow the pickup to sense it. Electric guitar pickups are based on variable reluctance technology. They rely on a magnetic field to be interrupted by a metal target (aka. Guitar string). The interruption is in the form of a vibration from the string. Acoustic guitar strings do not need ferromagnetic metals. Amplification is often not a focus of the acoustic guitar. Strings with clarity, brilliance and volume are preferred. The technology used to amplify an acoustic guitar does not rely upon strings having ferromagnetic properties. Transducing an acoustic guitar is more about picking up a signal via piezo effects, or sound pressure being picked up by a microphone. This opens up the door to a wider variety of string selections.

There are many different flavors that acoustic guitar strings come in these days. A series of alloys exist at the most basic level. Interestingly, I find players of all ages and experience who do not know the differences in string metals. Some have a rough idea, while some have no idea. Copper, zinc and tin are metals seldom discussed by guitarist. As soon as a number like 92/8 or 80/20 is mentioned in reference to alloy sets, bewilderment can start. If you are thinking, “Yeah, what the hell do those numbers mean to my tone?” You are about to find out. So, without further delay, here is a guided tour!

The Acoustic String Metal Guide

Bronze – Of all the strings manufactured, bronze has got to be the brightest and most articulate string available. There are no strings that are “pure” bronze, per say, but a mix of several different alloys including tin-phosphor, zinc and copper. The core is usually made of steel. Bronze strings can make virtually any acoustic guitar come alive with highly penetrating tone, versus their steel string counterparts. Bronze metal is known for its shimmer and brassy sound, but a deep rich low end can also be attained. Since string coatings have become popular, many of the previously highly corrosive bronze sets have become popular again. Uncoated bronze sets can lose their brilliance after a few hours of playing, as they can be highly corrosive. Many players used to use them for recording sessions for their short lived brassy sound. String coatings in general, have pumped new life into acoustic bronze sets. The brassy sound can last for many weeks, or months, without decaying.

80/20 Bronze – Here is one of those numbers we mentioned earlier. What does 80/20 mean? It is the ratio of copper to zinc in the wrap wire. The wrap wire is 80% copper while the other 20% is zinc. Since copper is highly corrosive, the zinc component helps slows down the aging process and adds additional hardness. However, since the advent of string coatings, the corrosion issue has all but disappeared as a primary concern. Although, poorly coated 80/20 strings, or strings with worn away coating will corrode. Tone wise, the 80/20 mix is excellent for creating a string that yields fantastic tonal range. The 80/20 strings are known for their brilliance and crisp highs. Uncoated versions of this string can lose brilliance after a few hours of playing sessions. In fact, this string has gotten a bad rap over the years for being “dead” sounding due to its high corrosion rate. Super old sets exposed to high humidity can turn light green from the copper content. Again, coating technologies have completely changed this factor.

85/15 Bronze – This string has a tonal spectrum in between an 80/20 bronze and a phosphor bronze string. It retains much of the brilliance found in an 80/20 bronze but captures the warmth and fullness of phosphor bronze strings. The 85/15 was the initial development of the more popular 80/20. However, 85/15 still remains a popular choice for finger style playing. It helps add volume to finger style articulation and give clarity similar to a plectrum.

Phosphor Bronze – The phosphor bronze strings were developed to have a longer lasting life cycle. In other words, the phosphorus content helped preserve the brilliant tone longer than the 80/20 and 80/15 bronze strings. Phosphor bronze strings are the darkest sounding of the bronze string family. They have about 75-80% the brilliance of a fresh set of 80/20 bronze. Phosphor adds a warm pleasing tone that give a tonal softness not found in other strings. They tend to have a little less “pick noise” as a plectrum sweeps across the strings. In fact, some sets have been known to yield a soft “brushing” type of pick noise.

92/8 Phosphor Bronze – The 92/8 is a ratio represents a blend of 92% copper and 8% tin phosphide in the wrap wire. The 8% actually breakdown to a 7% tin and 1% phosphor composition. The tin phosphide helps preserve the tonal range over time. Again, since the advent of coatings, the role of phosphor in coated string is purely tone versus longevity.

Gold Plated – In an effort to prevent corrosion, some strings utilize a micro layer of gold plating on the wrap wire. The gold plating gives a less brighter sound than the non-plated 80/20 bronze string sets and non-plated phosphor bronze sets. The gold is often plated on 80/20 bronze wrap wire and phosphor bronze sets. The gold plating is a good alternative for players who feel the poly-resin coating on strings impact string performance.

Titanium – Acoustic string sets based on titanium compositions and cores have been cited for their corrosion resistance abilities. The non-ferromagnetic properties of titanium strings inherently put them in the acoustic class of strings. The tonal range of titanium is somewhere between steel and bronze sets with a very unique sounding clarity and richness. Titanium is a bit of an exotic metal and can be over thirty times the cost of stainless steel.

Stainless Steel – Stainless steel strings bring their own tonal uniqueness to the acoustic world. Their high tension requirements make them less friendly to acoustic designs, but still give exceptional performance. Steel give a much softer sound with less volume than their bronze counterparts. They make a good choice for the hard strumming, open style chord players. Players on a budget will appreciate their availability in low price points. In addition, their stainless properties give them good corrosion resistance.

Silk Steel – Don’t own a classical guitar? No problem. For players seeking the soft sound of classical guitar strings, silk steel strings deliver the classical tonal range. This string is constructed of a center wrap of silk with a steel winding. The combination of silk and steel bring a classical tone to finger-style players wanting to keep their traditional dreadnaught or concert auditorium acoustic guitar. Unlike classical strings, the silk steel strings come with a ball end to anchor in a bridge made for metal strings.

We have covered a lot of ground here. As you can see, there are a bunch of options for alloys in the acoustic string world. Hopefully, this overview has provided enough insight to let you know the differences between the various alloys.

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• Durable, long-lasting
• Bright sounding
• Retain brilliance longer than other bronze and brass alloys
• Gauges: .012, .016, .024, .032, .042, .053

D’Addario Phosphor Bronze Light Acoustic Guitar Strings For a Warm, Balanced Sound

When it comes to your guitar, you need the right strings. D’Addario Phosphor Bronze Acoustic Guitar strings are acclaimed worldwide for their superb, long-lasting tone. Phosphor Bronze was introduced to string making by D’Addario in 1974 and has become synonymous with warm, bright, and well balanced acoustic tone. D’Addario’s most popular acoustic guitar strings.

Three packs of six strings.

History of Quality and Sound
The first metal guitar strings were invented in the 1920s and revealed to the world in the 1930s. Ever since then, guitarists have not looked back. These guitar strings are made from a Phosphor Bronze alloy that produce a warm balanced sound when properly strung. Each strum and pluck of the Phosphor Bronze string pulls the most sensitive, expressive tone that brings out the very best in guitars.

String Tension 101
Modern music has become so sub-divided and fragmented that there is no longer one turn-key string solution for every playing style or desired sound. At one point in time, there were no standardized string gauges, but John D’Addario Sr. changed all that in 1939 with the introduction of light, medium and heavy gauges for acoustic instruments.

Throughout most of the 20th century, standardized electric and acoustic guitar gauges were sufficient for needs. Occasionally, new gauges (often hybrids of existing sets), were created for specific purposes and string offerings from manufacturers became immense. However, today there are so many popular styles and trends that it is often necessary for players to go outside of standard gauge sets to get the effect they desire. Whether it’s open tunings, drop tunings, baritone guitars, 5-string guitars, 7-string guitars or a variety of other reasons, many players are opting to go their own way and customize their string selection and sound.

Why Do You Need To Know About String Tension?
D’Addario receives hundreds of inquiries each year from players who have questions or problems to solve related to string gauges or tensions. To assist players in determining the appropriate string for their needs, we created the Online String Tension Guide, a complete book of charts for determining the appropriate string to be used in just about any situation. The guide includes formulas for determining string tension for any string on any instrument type or scale length using three basic measurements: the Unit Weight, the Scale Length of the instrument, and the Frequency of the string. If scientific formulas aren’t your strong point, we have pitch/tension charts for just about every string we make, including electric guitar, acoustic guitar, classical guitar, and bass guitar.

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Fundamentally, acoustic guitar strings have been around longer than any other type of guitar string. They have evolved into one of the most critical components of the acoustic scene. Technology has taken the tone capabilities of the acoustic guitar string to new levels. There are many choices, sometimes leaving musicians confused at times. We are going to discuss one aspect of acoustic guitar strings in this writing…Metal.

It’s about metal…

What makes an acoustic guitar string different than electric guitar strings? Metal. Electric guitar strings utilize ferromagnetic metals, namely steel, to allow the pickup to sense it. Electric guitar pickups are based on variable reluctance technology. They rely on a magnetic field to be interrupted by a metal target (aka. Guitar string). The interruption is in the form of a vibration from the string. Acoustic guitar strings do not need ferromagnetic metals. Amplification is often not a focus of the acoustic guitar. Strings with clarity, brilliance and volume are preferred. The technology used to amplify an acoustic guitar does not rely upon strings having ferromagnetic properties. Transducing an acoustic guitar is more about picking up a signal via piezo effects, or sound pressure being picked up by a microphone. This opens up the door to a wider variety of string selections.

There are many different flavors that acoustic guitar strings come in these days. A series of alloys exist at the most basic level. Interestingly, I find players of all ages and experience who do not know the differences in string metals. Some have a rough idea, while some have no idea. Copper, zinc and tin are metals seldom discussed by guitarist. As soon as a number like 92/8 or 80/20 is mentioned in reference to alloy sets, bewilderment can start. If you are thinking, “Yeah, what the hell do those numbers mean to my tone?” You are about to find out. So, without further delay, here is a guided tour!

The Acoustic String Metal Guide

Bronze – Of all the strings manufactured, bronze has got to be the brightest and most articulate string available. There are no strings that are “pure” bronze, per say, but a mix of several different alloys including tin-phosphor, zinc and copper. The core is usually made of steel. Bronze strings can make virtually any acoustic guitar come alive with highly penetrating tone, versus their steel string counterparts. Bronze metal is known for its shimmer and brassy sound, but a deep rich low end can also be attained. Since string coatings have become popular, many of the previously highly corrosive bronze sets have become popular again. Uncoated bronze sets can lose their brilliance after a few hours of playing, as they can be highly corrosive. Many players used to use them for recording sessions for their short lived brassy sound. String coatings in general, have pumped new life into acoustic bronze sets. The brassy sound can last for many weeks, or months, without decaying.

80/20 Bronze – Here is one of those numbers we mentioned earlier. What does 80/20 mean? It is the ratio of copper to zinc in the wrap wire. The wrap wire is 80% copper while the other 20% is zinc. Since copper is highly corrosive, the zinc component helps slows down the aging process and adds additional hardness. However, since the advent of string coatings, the corrosion issue has all but disappeared as a primary concern. Although, poorly coated 80/20 strings, or strings with worn away coating will corrode. Tone wise, the 80/20 mix is excellent for creating a string that yields fantastic tonal range. The 80/20 strings are known for their brilliance and crisp highs. Uncoated versions of this string can lose brilliance after a few hours of playing sessions. In fact, this string has gotten a bad rap over the years for being “dead” sounding due to its high corrosion rate. Super old sets exposed to high humidity can turn light green from the copper content. Again, coating technologies have completely changed this factor.

85/15 Bronze – This string has a tonal spectrum in between an 80/20 bronze and a phosphor bronze string. It retains much of the brilliance found in an 80/20 bronze but captures the warmth and fullness of phosphor bronze strings. The 85/15 was the initial development of the more popular 80/20. However, 85/15 still remains a popular choice for finger style playing. It helps add volume to finger style articulation and give clarity similar to a plectrum.

Phosphor Bronze – The phosphor bronze strings were developed to have a longer lasting life cycle. In other words, the phosphorus content helped preserve the brilliant tone longer than the 80/20 and 80/15 bronze strings. Phosphor bronze strings are the darkest sounding of the bronze string family. They have about 75-80% the brilliance of a fresh set of 80/20 bronze. Phosphor adds a warm pleasing tone that give a tonal softness not found in other strings. They tend to have a little less “pick noise” as a plectrum sweeps across the strings. In fact, some sets have been known to yield a soft “brushing” type of pick noise.

92/8 Phosphor Bronze – The 92/8 is a ratio represents a blend of 92% copper and 8% tin phosphide in the wrap wire. The 8% actually breakdown to a 7% tin and 1% phosphor composition. The tin phosphide helps preserve the tonal range over time. Again, since the advent of coatings, the role of phosphor in coated string is purely tone versus longevity.

Gold Plated – In an effort to prevent corrosion, some strings utilize a micro layer of gold plating on the wrap wire. The gold plating gives a less brighter sound than the non-plated 80/20 bronze string sets and non-plated phosphor bronze sets. The gold is often plated on 80/20 bronze wrap wire and phosphor bronze sets. The gold plating is a good alternative for players who feel the poly-resin coating on strings impact string performance.

Titanium – Acoustic string sets based on titanium compositions and cores have been cited for their corrosion resistance abilities. The non-ferromagnetic properties of titanium strings inherently put them in the acoustic class of strings. The tonal range of titanium is somewhere between steel and bronze sets with a very unique sounding clarity and richness. Titanium is a bit of an exotic metal and can be over thirty times the cost of stainless steel.

Stainless Steel – Stainless steel strings bring their own tonal uniqueness to the acoustic world. Their high tension requirements make them less friendly to acoustic designs, but still give exceptional performance. Steel give a much softer sound with less volume than their bronze counterparts. They make a good choice for the hard strumming, open style chord players. Players on a budget will appreciate their availability in low price points. In addition, their stainless properties give them good corrosion resistance.

Silk Steel – Don’t own a classical guitar? No problem. For players seeking the soft sound of classical guitar strings, silk steel strings deliver the classical tonal range. This string is constructed of a center wrap of silk with a steel winding. The combination of silk and steel bring a classical tone to finger-style players wanting to keep their traditional dreadnaught or concert auditorium acoustic guitar. Unlike classical strings, the silk steel strings come with a ball end to anchor in a bridge made for metal strings.

We have covered a lot of ground here. As you can see, there are a bunch of options for alloys in the acoustic string world. Hopefully, this overview has provided enough insight to let you know the differences between the various alloys.

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New Video Makes Buying a Guitar Easier This Holiday Season

Swan Music School

Union City, NJ (PRWEB) November 16, 2010

Learning to play the guitar is hard, but buying one shouldn’t be: Swan Music School, along with Emmy-nominated video journalist Michele Monteleone, is proud to announce its new video guide, aptly titled “How to Buy a Guitar.” The video will be available November 25 for $ 14.99, with a $ 9.99 pre-sale running until then.

The downloadable video will turn musical novices into guitar-savvy consumers by providing an inside peek at how guitars are built. Viewers will be exposed to different guitars on the market, and will learn the real difference between a $ 100 and $ 1000 guitar. They’ll be able to walk confidently into a music store, ask the right questions and choose the best guitar for themselves or for a gift.

“How to Buy a Guitar” doesn’t skimp on the details, either. It shows how the strings and wood type can affect a guitar’s sound, lists the right accessories to purchase and describes proper care and cleaning for the instrument. The video also comes with a supplemental e-book, which gives advice on guitar teachers, practicing and fostering a good relationship with the local music store. Additionally, the e-book includes a first guitar lesson for new players.

Viewers will learn from the best: the video is full of guitar makers, musicians, teachers and technicians, all of whom are passionate about the instrument.

“A guitar isn’t just something you hang on the wall. It isn’t just something you stand in the corner,” says Chris Martin IV, sixth-generation owner of The Martin Guitar Company, the oldest American acoustic guitar manufacturer. “It’s something you hold in your body and make music with.”

The video was created by Shaheed & Laura Shabazz, a husband and wife teaching team and owners of Swan Music School in New York City. For years, they saw students using guitars that just weren’t right for them, so they decided to create a product to help first-time guitar buyers be more informed before spending hundreds, and potentially thousands, of dollars on instruments they would end up hating.

“Many customers believe that the cheapest guitar is sufficient to see if they like playing. While a low-end guitar is better than no guitar, a cheap instrument is often discouraging and detrimental to learning,” says Shaheed. “Not only does it sound like rubber bands on a cardboard box, there can be several structural problems that actually can lead to injuries.”

Stan Jay, owner of the iconic music shop Mandolin Brothers, echoes this sentiment in the video. “It is a given that the better the guitar, the better the guitarist has the capability of becoming,” he says.

Swan Music School is offering additional support and guidance to those who purchase the video. They will enjoy a year’s membership to Swan Music School’s online forum, where they can discuss all things guitar and view additional downloads as they become available.

To buy the video or find out more about Swan Music School, please visit http://swanmusicschool.com/

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When you learn to play the guitar, you’ll discover how important it is to know how to select the best acoustic guitar strings for your instrument. It can be pretty confusing, and there are a large number of guitar strings that come in several gauges and alloys. When you change the strings on your acoustic guitar, you’re ensuring that the guitar will sound its best.

New strings also provide a wonderful rich and bright quality that you may not realize has gradually disappeared as the old strings have worn. Consequently, some acoustic guitarists will replace their strings quite frequently. When faced with the task of buying new strings, here are some things to consider.

The Gauge – Basically, the gauge defines how heavy the string is. Whether you want a heavy or light string will depend on the sound quality you wish to achieve. In other words, a heavy gauge provides a stronger sound and will often sustain the note more effectively.

On the other hand, a lighter gauge offers more flexibility; allowing you to bend a note. Moreover, lighter strings place less stress on the neck of the instrument. Therefore, if you have an old or fragile guitar, a light gauge is probably the best option for you.

Type of Alloy - There are three principal types of alloy: bronze (the most popular), nickel and steel. However, these are divided into subcategories. In other words, there are two types of bronze alloy known as phosphor and 80/20. Obviously, this indicates the chemical mix, which affects the sound of the guitar.

A phosphor bronze alloy is made from copper and has a small percentage of tin. These strings are considered to be longer lasting and some guitarists believe them to have a richer sound.

The 80/20, however, is made from 80% copper and 20% zinc (hence the name). These strings have an incredibly bright sound when they are new, but they tend to lose their luster faster than phosphor strings. Therefore, they are popular among those who like to change strings frequently.

Specialist Strings – As well as the traditional acoustic strings, there is a multitude of specialist strings, which are all designed to improve the durability, sound or playability of the string. Usually, specialist strings are coated in a chemical bond, which improves sound quality and protects the string from wear and tear.

Of course, these strings will come with a higher price tag. Whether they are worth it or not is open to debate. Some guitarists believe that they are indeed worth the extra money, whereas others are happy to continue using the more traditional strings. If you are intrigued by specialist strings and can afford to experiment with them, then it is certainly worth seeing what is on offer.

Unfortunately, there is no easy answer to the question “which are the best acoustic guitar strings?” because it will largely depend on personal preference. It is advisable to experiment with different gauges, alloys and manufacturers until you find the strings that produce a sound that you love and that suit your needs.

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When it comes to your guitar, you need the right strings. D’Addario Phosphor Bronze Acoustic Guitar strings are acclaimed worldwide for their superb, long-lasting tone. Phosphor Bronze was introduced to string making by D’Addario in 1974 and has become synonymous with warm, bright, and well balanced acoustic tone. D’Addario’s most popular acoustic guitar strings.

Three packs of six strings.

History of Quality and Sound
The first metal guitar strings were invented in the 1920s and revealed to the world in the 1930s. Ever since then, guitarists have not looked back. These guitar strings are made from a Phosphor Bronze alloy that produce a warm balanced sound when properly strung. Each strum and pluck of the Phosphor Bronze string pulls the most sensitive, expressive tone that brings out the very best in guitars.

String Tension 101
Modern music has become so sub-divided and fragmented that there is no longer one turn-key string solution for every playing style or desired sound. At one point in time, there were no standardized string gauges, but John D’Addario Sr. changed all that in 1939 with the introduction of light, medium and heavy gauges for acoustic instruments.

Throughout most of the 20th century, standardized electric and acoustic guitar gauges were sufficient for needs. Occasionally, new gauges (often hybrids of existing sets), were created for specific purposes and string offerings from manufacturers became immense. However, today there are so many popular styles and trends that it is often necessary for players to go outside of standard gauge sets to get the effect they desire. Whether it’s open tunings, drop tunings, baritone guitars, 5-string guitars, 7-string guitars or a variety of other reasons, many players are opting to go their own way and customize their string selection and sound.

Why Do You Need To Know About String Tension?
D’Addario receives hundreds of inquiries each year from players who have questions or problems to solve related to string gauges or tensions. To assist players in determining the appropriate string for their needs, we created the Online String Tension Guide, a complete book of charts for determining the appropriate string to be used in just about any situation. The guide includes formulas for determining string tension for any string on any instrument type or scale length using three basic measurements: the Unit Weight, the Scale Length of the instrument, and the Frequency of the string. If scientific formulas aren’t your strong point, we have pitch/tension charts for just about every string we make, including electric guitar, acoustic guitar, classical guitar, and bass guitar.

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To be successful at a new task you need to get all the information that you can. Any successful business will research all the information it can about their intended business and then put together a business plan. A good business plan is the key to success. You can apply the same principles to learning how to play guitar. By having a good plan for learning to play acoustic guitar you will save yourself a lot of wasted hours of time and save money.
In order to put together a excellent plan you should get as much information as you can on acoustic guitar basics. Here are some of the things you should know about acoustic guitar.

1. Types of acoustic guitars- You should learn about the different types of acoustic guitars. The style of music you will be playing is one of the biggest factors in deciding what kind of acoustic guitar you will want. Acoustic guitars also come in different body sizes. You want to make sure your guitar is comfortable for you.

2. Learn the parts of an acoustic guitar- Learn what the different parts are of an acoustic guitar and what their names are. You will hear these terms used a lot when learning how to play acoustic guitar. It will also help you in knowing how to take care of your guitar.

3. Tuning your guitar- One of the first acoustic guitar basics you will have to learn is how to tune your guitar. If your guitar is out of tune it doesn’t matter how good you play, it is going to sound bad.

4. Holding your guitar- Learn how to properly hold and position your guitar. This is more important than it may seem. The position of the guitar will affect the position of your hands in relation to the guitar which will affect how well you will be able to do certain techniques. Also note that classical and folk guitars are held differently.

5. Guitar strings- There are different types and gauges of guitar strings. Personal preference is probably the biggest factor in deciding what guitar strings to use, but the type of music and your style of play are also factors. For a beginner though I would suggest using a light gauge string as this will be the easiest on your fingers. Once you have been playing a little while and have built up calluses on your fingers you can experiment with different strings to find what you like best.

6. Types of guitar lessons- At some point in your learning you will in all probability use some sort of guitar lessons. Not all guitar lessons are the same. If you are a absolute beginner you will want to make sure the lessons cover the basics of acoustic guitar playing. Some guitar lessons will touch on most styles of playing and types of music. There are also lessons that are more targeted, such as lessons on playing the blues or lessons on classical guitar. There are numerous ways to take guitar lessons, from private guitar instructors to online video lessons. Determine what kind of time and money you are willing to invest and where you want to go as far as a guitar player.

By getting as much information on these acoustic guitar basics you will be able to put together a plan for learning guitar that will save you time and money. Learning how to play guitar is a very rewarding endeavor and I wish you the best of luck.

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