How to Read Guitar Tablature
April 14th, 2010 | Author: guitarman
If you do not know how to read musical notation, but let say you want to learn how to jam the new Fall Out Boys song on your guitar. You will first need to learn how to read guitar tablature. Don’t worry though, because learning guitar tabs is very easy once you know all [...] Continue Reading…
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Welcome BackGuitars | Acoustic Guitar | Electric Guitar
April 14th, 2010 | Author: guitarman
If you ever enjoyed yourself sitting around a campfire singing and listening to the most famous musical instrument, the guitar, and you have wished or hoped to own one, here is some information about different guitars with their own sound and genres.
If you walk into a musical instruments shop looking to purchase your [...] Continue Reading…
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Tremolo Arm | Whammy Bar – Vibrato Unit
April 11th, 2010 | Author: guitarman
A tremolo arm also known as tremolo bar, whammy bar, or, more pedantically, a vibrato unit, is a lever attached to the bridge and/or the tailpiece of an electric guitar or archtop guitar; a steel-stringed acoustic or semi-acoustic guitar with a full body and a distinctive arched top. This is a common enough attachment [...] Continue Reading…
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Guitars | Renaissance & Baroque Guitars
April 7th, 2010 | Author: guitarman
Renaissance and Baroque guitars are the graceful ancestors of the modern classical guitar. They are considerably smaller and more subtle than the classical guitar, and give a much quieter sound.
The strings are paired in courses as in a modern 12-string guitar, but they only have four or five courses of strings [...] Continue Reading…
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Fender Guitar as Played by Stevie Ray Vaughan
April 4th, 2010 | Author: guitarman
The sound produced by Stevie Ray is almost classic Fender. The start is very distinctive, and adds a beautiful tone, especially to blues playing. There is a lot of recorded music by Stevie Ray, and all of it is great to hear. I certainly recommend that you seek some out and enjoy the Texas [...] Continue Reading…
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Guitars – an Overview
April 3rd, 2010 | Author: guitarman
The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient origins that is used in a broad variety of musical ways. It commonly has six strings, but four, seven, eight, ten, and twelve string guitars as well exist. Guitars are acknowledged as the chief musical instruments in blues, country, flamenco, rock music, and numerous forms of [...] Continue Reading…
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Guitar Accessories
April 2nd, 2010 | Author: guitarman
Though a guitar could be played on its own, there are a assortment of common accessories employed for holding and playing the guitar.
Slides
A slide (round metal bar, neck of a bottle or a knife blade) is used in blues and rock to produce a Glissando or ‘Hawaiian’ outcome. The necks of bottles were frequently [...] Continue Reading…
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How and Why You Should Tune Your Guitar
April 1st, 2010 | Author: guitarman
Wouldn’t it be nice if you were able to buy something, use it at your own leisure, and then just be able to put it away without having to worry about it? Well, sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but things just don’t work that way. Let’s say you buy a vehicle. [...] Continue Reading…
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Guitar Strings
April 1st, 2010 | Author: guitarman
Guitar strings can be seen as the heart beat of a guitar. Without strings, there would be impossible to create sound. There are two kinds of guitar strings broadly speaking and they are generally made from:
Steel – used on both the electric and the acoustic guitars and
Nylon – it is used mostly on [...] Continue Reading…
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Unusual Guitars | Selmer Guitar
March 17th, 2010 | Author: guitarman
The musical instrument industry appears to have forever evolved when it comes to making unusual guitars. Here’s a quick roundup of a different acoustic guitar release, best known as the Selmer Guitar, D-Hole Guitar or just “Maccaferri”. It was produced by Selmer from 1932 to about 1952.
Selmer Guitar is [...] Continue Reading…
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The Body of an Acoustic Guitar
March 12th, 2010 | Author: guitarman
In acoustic guitars, string vibration is carried through the bridge and saddle to the body via sounding board; a part of the guitar that transmits the vibrations of the strings to the air and greatly step-ups the loudness of sound. The sound board is commonly made of tone woods such as spruce; a light [...] Continue Reading…
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Harp Guitars
March 6th, 2010 | Author: guitarman
Harp Guitars are normally an acoustic, stringed, musical instrument with a history of well over two centuries. It is generally rare and uncommon in the popular music scenery. Harp Guitars are also challenging to classify as there are a lot of versions within this type of guitar.
They for the most part [...] Continue Reading…
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