When I started this site up I expected it to go the same way as most of my online projects have: nowhere. To my surprise, aside from a few dry spurts here and there I have kept up with this site for over a year now. So, I decided it was time to give it an official domain name instead of continuing to use the guitarstuff sub-domain of my personal weblog.

That being said, welcome to Guitar-Stuff.net. I have been sitting on this domain for a while now, worried about what would happen in Google if I switch domain names. But after doing a bunch of research I am pretty sure I figured out the best way to redirect the pages without loosing any ranking. So, the old URL will be forwarded to the new one, but if you are currently linking here please update your links!

I’m also [sort of] in the process of updating the theme and upgrading to Wordpress 2.1, but that is still a ways off. It’ll be coming though.

Anyway, thanks for visiting, and I hope you enjoy the new shorter URL.

Welcome to Guitar Stuff. For some reason I have found myself plagued with the urge to blog for a while now. I have been paying for web space every month that I haven’t really been doing anything with. I tried creating a personal site, and a links site, but neither really kept my interest. This time I have decided to start with something I like and build on that, and there isn’t much I like more than playing guitar.

I started playing guitar when I was 14. A lot of the people around me played instruments, family friends and such, so there were always guitars around my house as a kid. One day I decided I wanted to learn to play. My best friend and I just decided to start. We used the internet to download lessons and tabs for our favorite songs. Soon we were playing full songs, jamming together, and were actually in a bit of a competition to get better than each other.

When I started this I was a little worried that I might fall into the same old pattern of starting a site and loosing interest after a month of working on it. Instead of making the site live from day one I have been working on it behind closed doors for over a month now. I have written over 25 posts already. Hopefully this will help me fill some of those times when I have little to write. I know nobody is reading now, but hopefully with some hard work I can gain some interest and a reader base. Also I have made a plan for regular posts. Basically, I’m going to do my best to stick in this one for the long haul. Who knows, maybe I’ll be successful this time.

Because I’m self taught I do lack the musical theory that others have. However, I can play quite well, and I hope I can share my knowledge with others who also wish to play. I would say this blog is definitely geared slightly towards people just starting out on the guitar, especially ones who are teaching themselves. But I also hope that I can bring some interesting information to even skilled guitarists.