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Category: Guitar Tools

Buying A Guitar For A Christmas or Birthday Gift? Here’s what to look for…

How to buy a guitar for someone else when you have no idea what to look for.

How To Buy A Gift GuitarFirst of all, let me applaud you for your cool gift idea.  It’s not something you’d usually think of unless the child/friend/mate you’re buying it for has expressed an interest in it.  So you can’t go wrong on that front.

But now that you have the idea, maybe you’ve realized you have no idea what to look for.  I’ll do my best to round up every bit of knowledge I have on the subject to make the buying process easy for you.

I’m going to assume that this guitar is for a beginning guitarist.  Buying for an experience guitarist is a little more involved because the’ve probably developed some specific tastes in guitars.  At the end of this article I’ll give a little advice on buying for the experienced guitarist.

Deep breath…. Let’s go. Continue reading

Standard Guitar Tuning – A New Way!

Even after almost a quarter century of playing guitar, you can learn some new stuff along the way.  If you keep looking, there’s always something new to learn on the guitar.

Recently I learned about a tuning technique I’d never thought of before.

One of the big problems with the guitar is that it’s not a perfectly tuned instrument.  Really, no instrument is, because equal tempered tuning is just a little bit off in a lot of places.  On the guitar, the B string in particular can be a nasty bugger to get right.  This technique of standard guitar tuning really seems to nail it pretty well. Continue reading

There Are A Billion Guitar Effects Pedals – Whatcha Need?

A Guide To Guitar Effects

Guitar Effects PedalsI sometimes feel bad for acoustic guitarists who don’t have the overflowing toy box of effects pedals that electric guitarists do.  To be frank we pile on a lot of pedals sometimes just because it’s fun to see what they do!
If you’re new to this world, welcome to this guide to guitar effects pedals and a whole new way to blow money on your guitar jones. 🙂