The future of learning how to play the guitar may be now. Learning to play the guitar using hi-tech interactive learning tools has many of the same advantages as buying a guitar online. Obviously, one advantage is that you don't have to leave your home. Another advantage is your teacher is always there for you.

Some of the methods of teaching online are so thoroughly designed and technically accurate that in my opinion a guitar player can find exactly what type of lessons that can be purchased to suit your exact needs.

What is muscle memory and how does it work?

Is it the most challenging thing about learning to play the guitar and going from beginner to expert? Probably yes at least in the beginning.

In the world of guitars and related equipment, part of that learning process means memorizing how to use fingers, picks, and even pedals in a coordinated way to play a guitar and produce desirable sounds.

Active tone controls create a pretty hot signal and most guitarists love the full, flowing range of sound provided by active electronics such as the Eric Clapton Stratocaster boasts. What is the difference you ask? To explain it in terms you understand without over simplifying the answer consider this:

In a passive circuit the crude signal generated by the guitars pickups is then filtered through capacitors and variable resistors eliminating unwanted frequencies.

More women than ever are playing the guitar nowadays. More luthiers and guitar manufacturing companies are paying attention to the needs of smaller female players, their playing styles, and their sense of style and design. What exactly is a girls/womans guitar and what are the differences one might expect to find in a guitar described this way?

Guitars made to fit the female form are becoming more fashionable than ever.

Any time you hook up a multitude of complex electrical components with lots of cables, the rig or setup is probably going to have some annoying electrical noise. It's a problem electric guitar players have faced forever with varied success.

One of the prime reasons for hum is the ground loop, caused when the sound system has two or more different ground points.

The 12-bar blues progression is the oldest and most en-grained musical structure for the blues out there. It started as a I-IV-V or the 1st - 4th - 5th notes or chords of the particular scale you are playing in.
In order to start playing blues you will want to know what a 12-bar blues progression is. The simplist questions posed regarding the 12-bar blues are, what chords or notes do I play? and What order or progression do I play them in?

The basic concept of the 12-bar blues is the I-IV-V progression, where I, IV and V represent the chords or notes that you will be using.

As my interest grows on the subject of using computers for recording purposes or for creating effects or anything your imagination dreams of, it seems like time to Discuss and briefly brake down into terms you understand the options available such as the PCI, Firewire, USB 2.0, Cardbus, USB 1.1 setups.

If you are using PC software, get a desktop system.

Willie Nelson is probably the biggest name to come to our town yet. The Willie Nelson and Family Band came to town last Friday, the 11th of January 2008. We live in Fort Pierce Florida, a humble town of 40,000 people. In the process of renovating our 100 year old down town section, the Sunrise Theatre built in 1923 became the centerpiece of the renovation.

This is a great question and one most guitarists ask themselves. Why do we ask ourselves instead of someone who knows? I'll start with there is no etched in granite answer. Ultimately it comes down to what sounds the best to you. Simply put, there is no right or wrong way. A gray area so to speak that nobody talks about.
That being said, lets put together a basic strategy that is sold and popular and easy to do.

In my opinion guitar amps, bass guitar amps and amplifiers for musical purposes have evolved at such a rapid rate in the last couple of years that GPC considers a guitar amplifier one of the few guitar related items that is a better value than ever.

The constant breakthroughs in terms of technology and built in features now incorporated into many amps are great for the consumer in terms of cost.