Guitar Strings – Should I Use Steel Strings?

When playing your guitar, the choice of the guitar strings will create a different sound depending on which type you use. Depending on the type of music that you prefer to play also has an impact on choosing the correct strings. Many guitars are built and tuned to use the strings that are originally with the instrument and should be used when being replaced. If you choose to change them, you will likely hear a different sound and in many cases, your guitar will lose some of the quality.

Don’t Let Your Fingers Getting Rusty

I remember very well the first time I heard Cream’s “Crossroads”, a cover of Robert Johnson’s blues classic. And I was completely blown away. Up until then my interested in music, especially in making music, was rather limited.

How To Choose From Knowing Your Style Types Of Electric Guitars

There are several different types of electric guitars. In about all styles of music, the electric guitar is the most recognized instruments played. In the 1930’s, one of the earliest performances recorded with the electric guitar was by Gage Brewer. From this point forward, this instrument began influencing Hawaiian and Western music styles. These styles of music could not monopolize this instrument for long.

Proper Ways To Look After Guitars

There are a lot of people that own guitars across the country. Many of them do not know all of the things that can help extend the life of the instrument that they own. Here we will look at some tips that can be very helpful when it comes to how to look after these instruments properly.

Rickenbacker Guitars

The Rickenbacker International Corporation (RIC) grew out of the first company founded for the sole purpose of creating and manufacturing fully electric musical instruments and amplifiers-the Los Angeles-based Electro String Instrument Corporation. Founded in 1931 by Adolph Rickenbacker and George D. Beauchamp, this pioneering firm produced “Rickenbacker Electro Instruments”, the first modern electric guitars. RIC’s [...]

Adam Levine 222 Line For First Act Guitars

First Act has unveiled the 222 by First Act line of musical instruments in an exclusive partnership with Adam Levine, lead vocalist and guitarist for multi-platinum Grammy winning pop band Maroon 5. Comprised of twenty-two separate musical products, 222 by First Act is the biggest line of signature musical products ever created for mass retail. [...]

Don’t Forget Cigar Box Banjos

Cartoonist Charles Schultz said that, in order to get a good start in life, “as soon as a child is born, he or she should be issued a new dog and a banjo.” In this quote from Peanuts Guide to Life, Schultz was not thinking at the time about cigar box banjos, but two questions still need to be considered from his remarks. The first, of course, is the dog type. The answer, of course, is a beagle. The second, which type of banjo, needs more information before answering.