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- Want a Better Guitar Sound? Try This Pedal
- Does Buying a Gibson Guitar Make Me a Hypocrite?
- How to Dial in a Killer Chorus Pedal
- 5 Ways to Save Money on Guitar Maintenance
- After 28 Years I Discovered the Secrets of Live Tone
- 5 Things That Make an Expensive Guitar “Worth” the Price
- 5 Tips to Get Better at Playing Music with Others
- How to Navigate Mistakes when Playing Live Music
- 5 Techniques to Level Up Your Guitar Game
- The 10 Best YouTube Channels for Guitarists
- Guitar Buying on a Budget: How to Find Hidden Gems
- Do You Need to Use an FX Loop?
- Why Your Stratocaster Sounds Better in E Flat
- 5 Lessons I Learned from Joining a Band
- My Five Favorite Low-Cost Pieces of Guitar Gear
- What Does It Mean to Be “Good” at Guitar?
- Learn Basic Music Theory and Take Your Playing to New Levels
- Should You Buy an Expensive Electric Guitar?
- Want to Become a Better Musician? Stop Playing and Do This Instead
- How to Choose the Best Guitar for Your Needs and Budget
- Five Ways to Improve Your Inexpensive Guitar without Breaking the Bank
- That Time I Spent Entirely Too Much Time and Money Building a Crappy Guitar
- What Is Fingerboard Radius and Why Should You Care?
- Answering the Question, “Do Tonewoods Affect Electric Guitars?”
- Why You Shouldn’t Buy a 12-String Guitar
- How to Know If You’re a Good Guitarist and Why It Doesn’t Matter
- 4 Reasons Why I Buy Budget Guitars
- A Primer on How to Understand Signal Chains
- Triads Are the Ultimate Cheat Code for Guitar
- Five Tips to Get a Better Tone out of Your Electric Guitar
- How to Get the Best Bang for Your Buck When Buying a Guitar
- How to Use a Compression Pedal — and Why You Might Want To
- Learn These 4 Roman Numerals to Unlock Rock and Pop Music Forever
- How My Favorite Pedal Can Make You a Better Guitarist
- How to Get Over Your Fear of Playing Guitar in Front of Other People
- How to Buy a Guitar When You Are a New Player
- How Many Guitars Does One Player Need? Not As Many As You’d Think
- Why There Is No Such Thing As the Best Guitarist of All Time
- What Are Locking Tuners, and Why Should You Care?
- How Paul Reed Smith’s Mom Had an Obsession that Led to an Iconic Guitar Look
- When Six Strings Isn’t Enough: A Quick History of Multiple-Necked Guitars
- Why Do Guitars Have Fret Markers? It’s Kind of Complicated
- How I Got My Guitar Back after a Decade of Searching
- A Match Made in Heaven: the Story of the Ibanez JEM
- A Quick History of Gibson’s Flying V Guitar
- The Real Story Behind Buddy Guy’s Unique Polka-Dot Guitar
- SRV’s Number One Guitar: A Quick History
- From Rivals to Bedfellows: the Story Behind Epiphone
- A Short History of Ibanez Guitars
- That Time a TV Company Bought a Guitar Company and Things Didn’t End Well
- A Quick History of the Martin Dreadnaught Guitar
- Why Is “Standard” Guitar Tuning, Well, Standard?
- Jim Marshall: the Father of Loud
- The Time Paul Reed Smith Built Santana a Guitar and Changed Rock History
- Godin Guitars: the World’s Most Underrated Brand
- A Quick History of the Gibson ES-335
- Eddie Van Halen: Rock Star or Mad Scientist? Both!
- The One Thing Your Favorite Guitarists Have in Common
- The Seven-String Guitar Is a Lot Older Than You Think It Is
- From Cheap Imports to Vintage Gear — the Story of Teisco Guitars
- Slash’s favorite Gibson isn’t real — but it’s still awesome
- A Quick History of Stratocaster Copies