By Danny Trent | Electric Guitars
Jackson Guitars is one of the newer guitar manufacturers on the market today, with origins that reach back only to the late 1970s rather than the late 1800s, like some modern-day guitar manufacturers. The company was started by Grover Jackson, who obtained a California-based company called Charvel’s Guitar Repair in 1978. In 1980, Randy Rhoads […]
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By Danny Trent | Electric Guitars
If you are someone who has never played a fretless guitar or you’re not someone who plays fretless guitars often, I would highly recommend the SR300 from Ibanez Guitars as a beginner guitar. Their fretless basses guitars are extremely comfortable and easy to play. This bass guitar fits a beginner’s budget perfectly when looking for […]
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By Alizabeth Swain | Acoustic Guitars
Guild has always had a good name when it comes to acoustic guitars. Although they make some wild electrics – yeah, we’re looking at you, Thunderbird – some might be surprised by how traditional Guild are in their non-electrified instruments. Among such traditional instruments, is the M-120. The M-120 is a concert guitar, which isn’t […]
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By Danny Trent | Electric Guitars
Ahh, the mighty Telecaster. The famous guitar that catalyzed the electric guitar industry to become what it is today. Without the Telecaster’s original creation years ago, your favorite electric guitar may not have ever existed… While other guitar manufacturers had been mass-producing instruments since the early 1900s, the Telecaster was: the first mass-produced solid-body electric […]
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By Danny Trent | Electric Guitars
Did you grow up obsessed with Jimmy Page’s roaring tone and high-flying solos? How about Zakk Wylde’s aggressive rock tone with Ozzy? Do you go nuts over Slash’s shredding in Guns N’ Roses’ high-energy tracks? Then this review is for YOU. What Page, Wylde, and Slash all have in common is that they were all […]
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By Melanie Griffin | Learning
Trying to decipher guitar chord charts can be intimidating even if you can already read conventional sheet music. Other instruments that allow you to play more than one note at a time, like pianos, rely on traditional methods of notation that have a direct, one to one translation between the notes depicted and what you […]
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By Danny Trent | Electric Guitars
They may be declaring it as “new for 2018,” but Danelectro’s ‘59XT certainly has some strong familiarity about it! Based on their classic ‘59 design, made famous by everybody from Beck to Jimmy Page, this version of the iconic body shape has some differences. Danelectro doesn’t say what the XT means, but experience makes me […]
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By Melanie Griffin | Learning
Playing the guitar is all about making an art form of physics, bending sound waves to your will to make your songs come into the real world from where you hear them in your brain. But sometimes your fingers haven’t quite caught up to the patterns in your head, and that’s where power chords come […]
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By Melanie Griffin | Pedals
If you’re looking to crank up your electric guitar playing to eleven, a well-deployed distortion pedal is a great way to do it. It puts the fuzz on your notes and chords without disguising where you’re coming from, and you can add as much edge as you want without drastically altering your playing style. It’s […]
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By Candace Osmond | Pedals
People start learning how to play the guitar for a bunch of reasons. Some of them are just fans of good music. Other would like to take their time to develop a new skill/learn how to play a new instrument. Some children do it because their parents “made them to”. Others find that it’s a […]
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