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 [...]
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 [...]
Patrick Crosley has a great post on his blog White Man Stew about purchasing your first guitar. I was lucky when I started playing that we already had a decent guitar in the house, so I didn’t go through this until I had built up some guitar knowledge.
If you are just starting to play guitar you have probably learned something not everyone knows when they start – playing hurts your fingers. After hours of pressing the strings down your fingers will get tender. So what can you do to make it less painful? Play more guitar. I know, not the answer you [...]
So when I dropped my guitar off on Tuesday the tech said he would have it for me by the end of the week. I hadn’t heard anything (on my cell) on Friday and I was getting a little upset that I would be guitarless for the weekend. However, when I got home he had [...]
I took my guitar into Guitar Works today for a setup. Here’s what I asked the tech to look at:
The Neck
Bridge height
Intonation
My Pickups
First off, I stared down the neck of my guitar for a good 5 minutes one day trying to tell if it was bowed and I couldn’t tell. I wasn’t really sure what [...]
I have been playing guitar for over 7 years now and I just bought my first guitar book. I have had tab books in the past, but never a book about guitars and how to play them.
The book has a section on guitar maintenance and repair which discusses topics like action and intonation. Although I [...]
