Yngwie Malmsteen is sort of in a genre of his own. To call his music metal is sort of a stretch by today’s standards. Regardless, the guy can shred better than 90 percent of the players today, and without him, shredding wouldn’t be the same.
Inspired by to pick up guitar by powerful footage of Jimi [...]
Unless you haven’t picked up on it yet, I’m a pretty big metal fan. I was thinking about doing a series of review posts on some guitars commonly used by metal guitarists.
To finish off the month of March, over the next 7 days we will look at 7 different signature metal guitars. Each of the [...]
As with many things pertaining to guitar, the type and size of strings are all preference. At most guitar stores there will be a selection ranging from $5 strings up to maybe $35 for premium strings. Strings come in all sorts of different thicknesses and are made from different metals, so how do you choose [...]
The blog’s author, Cullen, has written 21 great posts (so far) about guitars, guitar gods, his musical favorites, and much more. He really brings a personal element to the posts and I enjoyed reading through them.
I was reading the Guitar Squad blog and came across a post on a new blues prodigy, Jimmy Bowskill. I can remember not a few years ago Kenny Wayne Shepherd was the blues kid everyone was talking about. It seems as thought Jimmy Bowskill at the ripe age of 16 might be the next KWS, [...]
When learning songs from written sources like instruction books or online files there are three main forms of written music for the guitar. The three types are chords, tablature, and music notation. Each form brings its own advantages and each form is a bit more complex than the last.
Chords
Probably the simplest form of documenting a [...]
The Guitar Shred Show lessons site takes a unique approach at teaching guitar players how to shred. The site has a flashed base interface and is all in a video form. We follow the path of Mr. Fastfinger who teaches us to shred by example. It’s really easy, you just press a key between A [...]
