Every guitarist finds the need to resting their guitar occasionally. Even pros with guitar techs sometimes need to restring their own guitars, especially if they aren’t on tour or recording an album. As a beginner, this is a useful skill as well. As you begin playing and guitar, the need to put new […]

Who says you need expensive amps and microphones to record guitar? Who says you need costly multi-effects units or pedalboards to capture an awesome tone? These days, all you need is a killer VST plugin along with some impulses to achieve stellar results. In some cases, you don’t even need impulses. If that wasn’t awesome […]

Every guitarist should learn how to restring their acoustic guitar. The first time you break a string, it can come as a bit of a shock. People don’t necessarily tell you that breaking a string is an inevitability, so when it happens, you might even assume the guitar itself is bren (but it’s not). The […]

The guitar is a complex and nuanced instrument that responds with exacting specificity to the player’s technique and idiosyncrasies. The six-string guitar is the most popular form, but driven by curiosity and innovation, it continues to evolve. When the guitar was still a newcomer on the block in the 15th century, it may have only […]

If you’ve ever heard of the “box pattern” before, there’s a good chance the topic of the conversation was the pentatonic scale. The major scale may be the first scale you learn, but what usually follows on its heels is the minor pentatonic scale. This is because the minor pentatonic scale is easy to learn […]