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How Often Should A Guitarist Change Strings?

Like Joe Cocker’s voice, guitar strings wear out with use. Old guitar strings often go out of tune quicker then new ones and may also give you problems with intonation. The older your strings are the more likely they are to break on you, often at the most inopportune time. So be sure to keep [...]

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How To Get A Stevie Ray Vaughan Tone

Possibly one of the most sort after guitar tones, Stevie Ray Vaughan’s signature sound is an ongoing debate in the musical world today. Being introduced to SRV and Double Trouble, and after recovering from my face melt by Stevie’s pure natural guitaring abilities, the facet that most captured mine (and most first time listeners’) attention [...]

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Common Obstacles That Beginners Make And Getting Over Them

Most beginners, when starting out at anything new, more often than not come face to face with a seemingly un-climbable wall of obstacles. Some people at this point attempt to climb this wall, some succeed and some don’t, and other people merely turnaround and go home. Playing the guitar is no exception. It brings about [...]

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Lessons Learnt From My Pupils Parents

Encouragement and Recognition: Babies cry for it – grown men die for it. That is such an extremely important saying that every person should have that ingrained in there heads. In business, relationships and family – this is a vital key to letting people excel and grow. I find some parents prefer to criticize their [...]

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Compression Pedals: What’s the Big Deal? (Part 1)

During the course of our lives as guitar players and enthusiasts, many of us have developed a particularly dire malady. I guess it may be traced back to the hours spent drooling over the latest cool guitar/amp/effect pedal that arrived at our local music store, or perhaps the sense of awe and intimidation that overcomes [...]

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Fender Stratocaster: The Industry Standard Guitar?

The Fender ‘Strat’ has been with us for quite a while now. Leo Fender, George Fullerton and Freddie Tavares designed the Stratocaster in 1954 as a follow-up model to the Telecaster. It incorporated more ‘space-age’, futuristic elements than the flat slab of the ‘Tele’: a double-cutaway, a contoured body for comfort and three pickup options. [...]

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