Third in BillyBadAxe’s Classic Electric Guitars 101 series: The Fender Stratocaster. With its beautiful contour body, Leo Fender created a masterpiece that is only rivaled…
No matter how many guitars we own, we always need another one. Just ask my wife! Guitarists always need something new to fill that gnawing…
Second in BillyBadAxe’s Classic Electric Guitars 101 series: The Gibson Les Paul is the quintessential heavy rock guitar. We’ve also covered the Fender Telecaster, and…
For the beginner guitarist who wants to sample a ton of cool tones on the cheap, a budget multi-effects box can give you a great…
A multi-effects processor attempts to recreate the sounds of many different stomp boxes via digital modeling, all in one box. They are usually larger than…
First in BillyBadAxe’s Classic Electric Guitars 101 series: the Fender Telecaster. The tele started it all so here it is. Second and third are the…
First appearing in the late sixties in the songs of bands like Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the wah wah pedal was instantly recognized…
It’s no exaggeration to say that without Les Paul, we wouldn’t have anything like the guitar music we have today. His contributions to guitar technique,…
The flanger guitar effect that was first created by playing the same piece of music on two tape recorders at the same time and deliberately…
Can you really improve your guitar playing while sitting in the car on the way to work or school? Beyond visualization, maybe you can’t improve…
The Vox Amplug is a tiny amp modeler that plugs right into your guitar. Perfect for practicing without waking the baby/wife/girlfriend/etc. And if you’ve got…
Here are a few tips for the beginner starting to learn the guitar basics. Mindset is critical! These little bits of advice are more about…
For awhile now I’ve been wanting to play the lead solo to Stairway (studio version), which is not a particularly fast solo, but my speed…
Whether you play electric or acoustic guitar, classical, rock, blues, jazz, whatever–you need a teacher. Yeah, you can futz along online and “teach” yourself. Excellent…
So what is anchoring? Anchoring is touching part of your picking hand to the guitar body close to the strings, as opposed to an unanchored…
