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Four Steps to Turbo Charge Your Guitar Practice

Every guitar player wants to improve. Becoming a good aguitar player takes practice. How's your guitar playing? Are you where you want to be? How's your guitar practice? Are you making progress? Are you improving? If you're playing progress has stalle... Read >

Five Great Reasons to Buy Your Kid a Guitar

Studies show that playing music has a profoundly positive effect on child development. So, what better way to get your teen, tween or adolescent child into music than by getting your kid a guitar. Sure, studying any instrument will have the same benefi... Read >

How to Buy a Guitar (Safely) Online

Buying Your Dream Guitar Online Follow these guidelines when buying your guitar online. Buy from a reputable guitar retailer. A reputable retailer can be an online music store like Musician's Friend, a national mortar-and-bricks chain store like... Read >

Six Good Reasons to Use a Guitar Capo

Why Aren't You Using a Guitar Capo? Never again miss a chance to accompany a singer with your guitar or jam with other musicians just because you don't know the chords to a particular key. Spend $4 or $5 on a capo and put it in your gig bag. What is... Read >

Improve the Tone and Appearance of Your Guitar: How to Clean Your Guitar

What's the easiest and cheapest way to improve your guitar's tone and appearance? Clean your guitar. Accumulated dirt, persperation finger oils can mar the quality and resonance of your acoustic or electric guitar. To Really Clean a Guitar, First Remov... Read >

How to Buy a Guitar (Safely) Online

Ideally you'll be able to buy your guitar at a local music store. But that's not always possible. For a variety of reasons, you may want to buy your guitar online. The good news is, there are a number of reputable online music stores that sell guitars. Ac... Read >

What You Need To Know About Electric Guitar Woods

Unlike acoustic guitars, the type of wood used in an electric guitar will not directly affect the guitar's acoustics. The sound of an electric guitar with magnetic pickups comes solely from the interaction of the strings with the pickups. However, char... Read >

What You Need To Know About Electric Guitar Pickups

There are two basic types of electric guitar pickups: magnetic and piezoelectric. Piezo pickups work with all kinds of strings (steel, nylon, or gut). Magnetic guitar pickups only work with steel strings. As for magnetic pickups, there are two varieties: ... Read >