Guitar

All musicians should take care of their hearing. If you’re a bass player, you probably have had experience playing live in different areas – and suffered from it. While the combination of a lively crowd and your own music is fun, the constant exposure to live, loud music can be painful.  It can also lead […]

Shredding is a high-octane, fast and furious guitar style popularized in the 80s by six-string wizards such as Eddie Van Halen, Yngwie Malmsteen, Randy Rhoads, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Kirk Hammett, Paul Gilbert, Dimebag Darrell, Dave Mustaine, Marty Friedman, Glenn Tipton, K.K. Downing… the list goes on and on and on! It’s possibly the definitive […]

As a musician your instrument is your pride and joy, you want to look after it as well as you can. Guitars are very intricate pieces of musical equipment and they do require some specialist care especially when it comes to cleaning. It is important that you know what you are doing when it comes […]

The strings and other parts of the guitar usually outshine the fretboard when it comes to significance in the eyes of guitar users. However, despite its seeming insignificance, it plays a crucial role in the production of sounds of the guitar. The fretboard is the contact point between the guitar’s body and the notes that […]

A sound engineer friend casually asked me the other day about how long my guitar would last. Well, I replied: It would last for a long time. Yet, in hindsight, I think his question would surely elicit varied answers. Why—because guitars came in different designs and made. Moreover, owners of guitars vary in their care for […]

Just like anything else, guitar strings come in different makes and standards. Consequently, the price of these strings is different. You can buy a set for as low as $5 or as high as $30. Luckily, the model of a guitar doesn’t necessarily determine the type of strings to buy. Bronze strings cost less than […]