Guitar Cables - Picking The "Right Angle"
In the beginning there were basic guitar cables. Nothing fancy, standard black jacket, ten or twenty feet long with straight chrome plugs with metal casings that unscrew so that you could access the wiring points and solder your own joints if something broke.
Nowadays we have choices. Yes, you can still get the basic black model with the ends that unscrew, but take one look in any music store or online catalog, and you are slammed with a barrage of guitar cable selections.
Learning Guitar - Intro Riff For "My Girl"
If you've been around long enough to remember the Temptations, then at some point along the way you have probably spent a few magic moments swaying with someone special to the grooves of "My Girl".
One of the things that really sticks with the listener on that song is the signature guitar riff in the introduction, and scattered throughout the remainder of the song.
It's one of those riffs that, as soon as you hear the first few notes, you know exactly what song is coming up.
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How Guitar Amp Distortion Works
In a previous discussion we talked about how the advent of the master volume control in guitar amps allowed for channel switching to be utilized. Today we will look at how distortion can be created and controlled when the amp is switched to the lead or "gain" channel.
As we observed earlier, the "master" volume control allows you to adjust the overall volume of both the clean and distortion channels of the amp.
Within each of those channels are various controls that enable you to set and tweak the sound, tone and volume of that particular channel.
Pre-Stretching New Guitar Strings
If you play guitar consistently, you already know the importance of changing your strings on a regular basis.
Old guitar strings lose their tone over time, and left on long enough, will eventually break.
A guitar student playing on a daily or even casual basis should replace guitar strings at least once a month. Many gigging guitarists will put on a new set of strings before every show.
We all know the experience of putting on a fresh set of guitar strings - installing the strings, getting tuned up, then playing a song or two, only to realize the guitar is out of tune again.
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8 Tips For Buying a Guitar Online
Today's younger generation may have a hard time believing this, but there really was a time when cell phones, PC's, pagers, texting, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and the Internet, didn't exist! Back in those pre-historic times, buying a guitar was a much simpler affair. It was also much more limited.
You typically had to go to the local music store to find something you liked, or look for a used guitar in the newspaper classifieds.
Nowadays, a guitar purchase normally begins with a Google search. In an instant, you're faced with a couple million pages of dealers, stats, figures, prices, opinions, reviews, forums and ceaseless babble.
