Guitar Notes From The Underground: eX-Girl
In today’s Guitar Notes From The Underground, we’re featuring an act that showcases some serious right brain musical creativity in lieu of speed driven chops.
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A Tube Primer for Guitarists, Part Three: Hybrid Amps
In this installment, we’re talking about hybrid amps. We’re also going to challenge you to hear the difference between amps.
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A Tube Primer For Guitarists – Part Two
Last time, we looked at the details behind the sound of tubes. This time, we’re looking at cost of tube amps and maintenance.
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A Tube Primer for Guitarists: Part One
How do vacuum tubes really work? How do they provide the sound they do? Do they need maintenance? How long do they last? Why do they cost so much?
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Guitar Lesson On Hendrix’s New Track: “Somewhere”
In this lesson/style survey, we’re going to take a look at some of the guitar work from the track “Somewhere” from Hendix’s forthcoming album.
Read MoreA 101 On Tablature
Tablature is a means to aid in learning to play a song by laying out the neck of a guitar with lines representing strings and jotting numbers down all across it to show which fret should be hit on which string at what time. That’s the simple explanation. Tablature, or tabs, can be kept as simple as that or with the aid of symbols can sometimes become a viable alternative to sheet music.
Read MoreSpecial Holiday Price For Complete Set Of Guitar Books Written By Staff Writer Scott Collins
When he isn’t interviewing players or manufacturers (or writing about other people’s books), Guitar-Muse staff writer Scott Collins has been generating a series of books based on his unique fretboard visualization technique. In preparation for an official release date in January of the printed editions, Scott is selling a bundle of 3 books through his website for a limited time at the reduced rate.
Read More9 Music Business Books Every Guitarist Needs To Read (If Not Own)
For those of you in bands or aspiring to make a career on your own, developing your music business chops are just as important (and some would say even more so) than your musical chops.
Read MoreFor Your Musical Book Shelf: 7 Books For Learning and Self Discovery
Previously, I talked about 13 “jazz” books that every guitarist should own, but since many guitarists focus extraordinary effort in developing the technical elements of playing and performing, I want to focus this post on a smaller number of books that address the deeper issues involved in music making in general, learning and self discovery.
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Learn Steve Vai’s Martian Love Secrets
Martian Love Secrets is a technical guide, but not the kind that you would expect from a player like Vai, whose reputation is intensely built on technique. Instead, this series mostly deals with harnessing all your technical knowledge and your own life experience to create art.
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