- 10 years ago Sticky: Helpful Guitar Information
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Showing off my Ovation
Like most of you I'm from reddit which has a strong guitar community. I thought I'd help get the ball rolling here by showing off the guitar I play most.
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John Lennon's guitar could sell for £630,000
John Lennon's 1962 Gibson Acoustic guitar, which went missing for 50 years and was found in a junk shop, is up for auction.
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BB King 'receiving hospice care'
Blues guitarist BB King has told fans he is receiving hospice care at his home following a short stay in hospital.
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Learning Classical Guitar
The Classical Guitar students develops the ability to move the playing fingers in a synchronized pattern of rapid movements without looking at the hands. At the same time the student must read various musical notes and automatically interpret their location on the fingerboard and the intensity (dynamic) to which it is played. The "mastery" level is reached when several complex masterpieces are performed by memorization in public
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King of Blues B.B. King rushed to hospital
AMERICAN blues musician B.B. King has been rushed to hospital in Las Vegas due to a diabetes-related emergency.
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Top American guitarist
a rare visit to Scotland
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6 Ways to Piss Off an Open Mic Host
By Rachel Vogelzang
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Pete Thorn YouTube Channel
Pete Thorn's gear demos, guitar lessons, and other guitar-centric videos... I stumbled upon who Pete Thorn is because he was an active contributing member on some guitar related forum I was looking at (I think Strymon). He responded to posts like a normal person then I realized he was actually a professional guitarist having played guitar for Chris Cornell and Don Henley among others. Anyway, his gear demos and instructional videos are some of the best on Youtube.
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Musicians Get To Play A Piece Of Blues History - Big Bill Broonzy's Guitar - Two Lights On
Phil and Dave Alvin, who founded the influential group the Blasters in the late ’70s and who have been an integral part of the American music scene ever since, made a special stop when they passed through Chicago earlier this week. They arrived at Chicago’s Union Station Monday afternoon, then performed at FitzGerald’s in Berwyn Read More »
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A monkey explains basic guitar effects
This has been around a while but on analogman.com, they created a great page to explain a whole pile of guitar pedals.
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Alternate Picking Lesson
This is a very long lesson. It's mostly intro for the first 2 and a half minutes, but after that there is a lot of information. Later in the video, tabs and backing tracks are presented to practice a long to. Over an hour of instruction from someone who is getting way too few Youtube views for the effort he is putting in.
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Another great lesson from Swift Lessons
This one covers a few cool riff's to help you with your pentatonic riffing over a 12 bar blues.
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Change Your Caps, Change the World!(or at least your tone pot response)
A great write up on the Seymour Duncan site about capacitors and the effect they have on your tone. Great audio clips that show the differences in values.
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Another very cool youtube channel
Some of the best tutorials I've seen on Youtube. Very detailed walk throughs, tabs included... something for every kind of learner.
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youcanlearnguitar
Free Online Guitar Lessons Chords Solo electric acoustic lessons
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How to Play The Josh Homme Scale on Guitar
Learn how to play and practice the Josh Homme scale on guitar with video, notation and tab. The video on this page links to an interesting youtube series called Guitar Moves. There's another interesting one with Dan Auerbach of the Black keys, Billy Gibbons, and Jake Bugg among others. I found them very interesting.