Guitar-music

How to get a Jazz Guitar Sound

2008-03-17T19:12:00.000-07:00

How to get a Jazz Guitar Sound By Adrian Martin

The word Jazz often evokes a darkly light Smokey club with musicians expertly improvising against seemingly complex chord progressions. Featuring passionate tone – getting that jazz sound can be a complex process – in this article we’ll address what you’ll need to get a great jazz guitar sound.

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Fender Guitar - A Rock-N-Roll Legend

2008-03-06T03:59:00.000-08:00

Fender Guitar - A Rock-N-Roll Legend By Daniel Wright

"Fender" is the dream of every lover of the guitar. It's one of the most popular guitars, being used by many guitarists. Before going to buy one of the various types of fender guitar, let us take a overview of the Fender musical instruments corporation.

Arizona is the home of this guitar manufacturer. The wild success of Fender's "Stratocaster" and "Telecaster" guitars has helped it's rise to fame. A solid body is a feature of both of these electric guitars. Even though many popular brands of electric guitars are on the market today, the reputation and likability of Fender guitars is without comparison.
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Popular Brands of Electric Guitars

2008-03-04T08:52:00.000-08:00

Popular Brands of Electric Guitars By Victor Epand

Are you an guitar freak? Do you want to know about the popular brands of electric guitars? Then here is the just what you want.

There is a long list of popular electric guitar brands. Information about some of the most popular ones among them is given below.
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Guitars - Yamaha

2008-03-03T07:17:00.000-08:00

Guitars - Yamaha
By Michael Russell

In the world of guitars, Yamaha isn't exactly the first company that you think of. Known more for keyboards, digital pianos and synthesizers, Yamaha still makes some decent guitars which are more than reasonably priced. We're going to go over some of the guitars that this 40 year old company makes.

Yamaha started in 1966 long before the first synthesizer came out. But by the mid 80s they were making some of the best synthesizers on the market, including the classic Dx-7. But in spite of their reputation as a keyboard giant, the land of guitars was not very far away.
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Best Acoustic Guitars

2008-02-29T01:14:00.000-08:00

Best Acoustic Guitars
By Damian Sofsian

Some of the best-built acoustic guitars include the Alvarez, Gibson and Yamaha. The Alvarez offers the Yairi models. Their Aj60SC acoustic electric and the 12 string are two of the most popular. These models have a solid spruce top with maple back and sides. The have die-cast tuners, white pearl rosette, multiple binding and the Alvarez logo on their headstock. They are comfortable to play and have a powerful sound.
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Tools For Learning Guitar

2008-02-27T07:11:00.000-08:00

Tools For Learning Guitar
Submitted By: Jon Broderick

Guitarists are insatiable learners and the world is full of great guitar learning material. First of all, there are countless tablature books which show you in the easy-to-learn guitar tablature format how to play all your favorite songs even if you can’t read sheet music. If you can read sheet music, then there is sheet music available for every popular artist and thousands of classical and lesser-known composers. There are also “method books” that teach how to play a particular style, and there are instructional guitar DVDs that show you and tell you everything a single guitarist knows how to do. There are books with CDs full of audio examples, there are DVDs that come with tablature books; the list of available guitar learning resources is endless.
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Classical Guitar

2008-02-22T01:37:00.000-08:00

Classical Guitar
Submitted By: Charlie Buquette

Although the precise origins of the classical guitar are open to debate, there is plenty of evidence of the existence of similar instruments dating back as early as 5000 years ago. The idea of a hollow body with tensed strings anchored between two points is seen in many instruments, including the violin family, sitar, piano and harp; they all use the string’s vibrations to resonate the body and produce sounds.
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Guitar Lessons - Basic Power Chords

2008-02-20T23:27:00.001-08:00

Guitar Lessons - Basic Power Chords
By Bill McRea

Not to over simplify Rock N’ Roll but a huge variety of music is based on two patterns: The blues vamp and the power chord. Blues vamps and power chords are just names for rhythmic patterns and chords. Today were looking at the power chords.
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A Brief History Of Yamaha Electric Guitars

2008-02-18T07:41:00.000-08:00

A Brief History Of Yamaha Electric Guitars
Submitted By: Clive Oliver Blacksmith

With over a hundred years of experience manufacturing musical instruments, Yamaha is universally acknowledged as the producer some of the world's finest instruments. Yamaha started guitar production in the mid 1940's and from that day to this have produced a wide variety of guitars to fulfil the needs of all players, from beginner to enthusiast and on to professional.
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Learn How To Play Guitar - 4 Tips To Improve Your Guitar Playing

2008-02-17T02:27:00.000-08:00

Learn How To Play Guitar - 4 Tips To Improve Your Guitar Playing
Submitted By: Tim Lee

Playing guitar as a hobby or professionally can be very fulfilling. It is a great outlet for one's creativity and passion, and is the perfect expression of one's self. Whether you are a beginner guitar player or not, you could use the following tips and instructions to improve your guitar playing.

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The Seven Best Sources For Basic Guitar Lessons And Learning Techniques

2008-02-15T21:06:00.000-08:00

The Seven Best Sources For Basic Guitar Lessons And Learning Techniques
by: J M Jones

The seven best sources for basic guitar lessons and learning techniques
There are two ways of learning anything, and they're not the hard way or the easy way, nor are they my way or the highway. No, they're teach yourself, or get a teacher.
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Guitar Lessons: Guitar Playing Must Be A Passion

2008-02-14T06:34:00.000-08:00

Guitar Lessons: Guitar Playing Must Be A Passion
Submitted By: Bill McRea

The first time I picked up a guitar my whole life changed. I think I slept with it the night I brought my first new guitar home. It’s a bit embarrassing to admit, but it is true. I remember the feel of the guitar in my hands and the shape, which reminded me of a girl I once dated. But seriously it was love, pure love.
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2008-02-11T20:05:00.000-08:00

Bored? Look At These Hobby Ideas!

Bored? Look At These Hobby Ideas!

Have you ever played one too many computer game or watched one too many old rerun? You just can't get into another mystery and you just feel flat? Maybe you are suffering from boredom, that familiar accomaniment to our automated, precooked lifestyles.
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2008-02-11T01:56:00.000-08:00

Ideas For Creating Themed Gift Baskets

Make appropriate gift baskets for all of your friends!
Creating gift baskets are an excellent way to make a personal gift for your friends and family. This article includes quite a few ideas for containers and themes to help you get started on a unique gift basket for everyone on your list.Gift baskets can be a lot of fun for you and the recipient and they don't have to cost a lot of money to produce.The recipient of your gift basketThe first thing to consider is who you plan to give the basket to:
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2008-02-08T02:23:00.001-08:00

Tips on Buying Guitars
by: Mantius Cazaubon

There are so many guitar models on the market today. So many types including electric, acoustic, acoustic electric, nylon string, and steel string guitars. How does one make a selection? Here are a few tips to help you choose one that meets your needs.
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Right Hand Guitar Playing Tip by: Yuri Nikitin

This lesson can open for you a secret of high-speed guitar playing. If take the given technique for 2-3 weeks you'll feel progress in high-speed playing of complex passages.The given principle of development of techniques "was tested" not by one generation of guitarists and not only guitarists...In this lesson we shall concern high-speed technics.
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2008-02-06T02:07:00.001-08:00

The History of the Electric Guitar

By: Paul Smith

When most people think of electric guitars, they think of rock music. But electric guitars are more versatile than you’d think. You can find them in jazz, blues, country music, New-Age compositions, and even contemporary classical pieces. Electric guitars are intimately associated with many famous musicians of the twentieth century—and may be the iconic musical instrument of our time.