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My Fender Strat Makeover: Custom Shop 69 Pickups Review
These upgrades to my strat have given me the classic Fender tone I’ve always been searching for. I decided to give my 1979 Strat an overhaul a couple of weeks…
Squier Classic Vibe Telecaster Review
Here’s my Squier Classic Vibe Telecaster review. These are my honest opinions of this guitar and hopefully it will give you a better idea of whether this guitar will work…
Open G Tuning Guitar Lesson
In this guitar lesson, I’m going to show you some tips about starting slide guitar in open g tuning. Now the first thing you’re going to want to do is…
How I Learned about Guitar Tone, The Hard Way
Getting a good guitar tone is one of the most talked about subjects in the guitar realm on the internet in my opinion. Everyday you can find people discussing amps,…
How to Record a Video While Playing over a Backing Track
There is no doubt that YouTube has become the place for online video viewing. There are over 20 hours of videos uploaded every single minute on this video sharing site,…
Are You Practicing Without a Guitar?
I would say that most of the time people associate practicing the guitar with sitting down, grabbing their guitar, and then practicing scales, licks, and other things that the person…
Slide Guitar Tunings: What Should You Use?
If you’ve been trying to learn how to play slide guitar, then there is no doubt that you have probably experimented with some different slide guitar tunings. When using an…
How to Get an Allman Brothers Guitar Tone
In this post I’m going to show you how I got a tone to similar to what Derek Trucks, Duane Allman, Warren Haynes, or Dickey Betts might use when playing…
FAQ: If I learn open e tuning slide guitar, can I play in other keys?
This is a question I get asked on a regular basis. I thought I would address it here on the blog. Many people want to start playing slide guitar. It’s…
My Top 5 Duane Allman Guitar Solos
Duane Allman has been one of my biggest influences since I started playing guitar. Back when I first put Live at the Fillmore East on, I became immediately obsessed with…
7 Reasons Why You Didn’t Find Success with Slide Guitar
With the rise in popularity of Slide Guitar, partially due to Derek Trucks, many people are now wanting to play this expressive way of playing the guitar. Playing slide guitar…
Mastering BB King’s Vibrato
If you have listened to BB King and tried to reproduce his playing, then you already know that his vibrato is one of the most difficult things to reproduce. Simply…
This is Why I Think Derek Trucks is So Great.
I’m sure everyone has heard of Derek Trucks by now. If you haven’t, you need to. He is becoming one of the greatest guitar players of all time. He has…
Albums I Recommend for Learning Blues and Slide Guitar
I got an email a while back from someone asking what CDs I recommend to him for learning to play blues guitar. I thought I would do that right here…
Dickey Betts: A Highly Underrated Songwriter
If you know the Allman Brothers, you know Dickey Betts. I think a lot of people think of Dickey Betts as more of a guitar player than a songwriter. While…