How to get a Jazz Guitar Sound

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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