JR8898 asked: I’m a medium-level guitar player, 19 years old, looking to get an electric guitar. I would like it to be electric but also have somewhat of a soft and smooth sound, like acoustic but I don’t want an electric acoustic. I’d look for it to be in the mid to lower [...]

Paul Guyon asked: This is the story of how Crazy Train, the Ozzy Osbourne Tribute Band, was born. The struggles and sacrifices, the ups and downs, on a long hard road to becoming an Ozzy Osbourne Tribute Band. And believe me it wasn’t easy.
Hi, my name is Eddie Janes. I have played in numerous bands [...]

Paul Guyon asked: This is the story of how Crazy Train, the Ozzy Osbourne Tribute Band, was born. The struggles and sacrifices, the ups and downs, on a long hard road to becoming an Ozzy Osbourne Tribute Band. And believe me it wasn’t easy.
Hi, my name is Eddie Janes. I have played in numerous bands [...]

Jim DeSantis asked: As an old Rock N Roll guitar player myself, the first thing I found out, when looking for free blues guitar lessons on line was this: I had learned to play guitar based on some really bad habits. My fingering and picking were all wrong from the start. In effect, I didn’t [...]

James Johnson asked: When it comes to finding an acoustic beginner guitar, there are many things to consider. It may actually be worth spending enough money for a high quality guitar, if you have it. The ease with which the guitar plays and the sound it makes really is related to the quality and price.
Two [...]

Peter Jones asked: So, you want to be a guitar player huh? You want to strut like
Chuck Berry, be as cool as Keith Richards, rock like Jimi
Hendrix and astound like Steve Vai. You want to wake up in the
morning a beginner and go to bed at night an expert. You want to
be hero-worshipped and have [...]

Frank Foxx asked: I’m on a mission. To convert.
To convert guitar players and aspiring guitar players to open-D. It’s the tuning so important to guitar in the last number of decades, but too often, so overlooked by the mainstream. Standard tuning has a stranglehold on the business of learning guitar. The reason, to me, remains [...]

Sam Bateman asked: In a band, the lead guitarist is the one who leads the group through a certain melody. The bass guitar, which is the lead’s accompaniment, also follows along, but tends to help the other members, such as the drummer, keep up to the rhythm of what’s being played. It is important for [...]

Peter Edvinsson asked: What is most important as you try to learn to play guitar? Technical guitar exercises or playing music? What areas should you focus on as you try to use your practicing time as effective as possible?
Could it be that both these areas are important and should go hand in hand?
You could practice [...]

Daniel Lehrman asked:
It is a real puzzle to me, why are new guitars so poorly setup from the factory? Unless it came out of the Custom Shop for lots of money, most guitars don’t even seem to be checked out before they leave the factory. God forbid the music store selling it checked it [...]