Baritone Electric Guitar History
Jun 27, 2009 baritone
The baritone electric guitar was introduced by Danelectro in 1958. It had a longer neck (30 inches, rather than the standard 25 inches) which allowed it to be tuned lower than a standard electric guitar.
In 1961, Fender introduced the Fender Bass VI. It featured a Jaguar style body and controls, with 3 single coil pickups. Marketed as [...]
Guitar Solos - How to Improvise
Jun 24, 2009 improvisation
While their are several types of musical scales, the pentatonic scale has become very popular in several genres of music. For many famous guitar players, including Jimi Hendrix, it is the only scale they need to know.
Eventually, I learned about a popular method, named the CAGED system. CAGED is an acronym for the 5 chords [...]
Guitar Straps - Top Sellers
Jun 19, 2009 guitar straps, top sellers
You need a guitar strap for your electric guitar. Pro guitarists recommend practising guitar while standing up, with your guitar strapped on. The idea is, if you are going to stand in front of an audience you should practice standing up too.
Here are the top 10 selling guitar straps this week:
Levy’s Soft Suede Guitar [...]
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Stratocaster - Early Masters
Jun 13, 2009 stratocaster
While many electric guitar players have advanced the fame of the Fender Stratocaster, here are a few early ‘Masters of the Stratocaster’:
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Acoustic Guitars - The Parlor Guitar
Jun 9, 2009 parlor guitar
The parlor guitar emerged in the late 1800’s. It is a very small-bodied acoustic guitar. In the early days of the parlor guitar, it was played primarily by women to entertain their houseguests at tea time.
Like most acoustic guitars of the time, the early parlor guitars used gut strings, rather than steel strings.
In the 1930’s blues [...]
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Online Guitar Tuner
Jun 6, 2009 tuner
Guitar Tuner courtesy of the folks at Wimpy Player
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Archtop Guitar History
Jun 4, 2009 archtop guitars
The First Archtop Guitars
Orville Gibson was building archtop guitars in the U.S. by the end of 19th Century. He believed that unstressed wood had superior vibration characteristics. Therefore, Gibson carved the archtop guitar tops and sides from solid blocks of wood. This technique, while expensive continues in some archtop guitar models even today, as it [...]
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