"I wanted to reflect on some of the things I've learned as someone who has bought and sold a lot of gear," begins YouTuber and gigging player John Nathan Cordy. He estimates this amount being in the £100,000 territory over the years, which is eye-watering but...
Ever wanted to improve your picking skills? Imagine if you didn't have to. Guitar player Olav Kvern has built a robotic device that fits to an electric guitar and picks its strings for you.The idea started when Kvern was watching a Seattle guitarist he admired, the...
Check out this lovely piece on NPR about Leo Brouwer’s legacy, which includes some very interesting details about his life and how that influenced his musical upbringing. Here’s a great quote that I think we all responded to:“To be useful is something incredible,...
Johnny Marr was a recent guest on the Broken Record Podcast. And it found him digging into his past and huge body of work with other artists. But the overarching impression is that Marr's wonder at his role as a guitarist remains the same as it was when he was a...
Check out this great article in Classical Guitar magazine about Scott Tennant‘s Segovia sessions. The CD he’s recording of Segovia’s compositions recorded on Segovia’s 1969 Jose Ramirez. The article tells the whole story of how the CD came to be recorded and features...
Jackson has revealed the second guitar in its American-made series will be the Virtuoso. This alder-body spiritual successor to the Dinky comes nearly a year after the acclaimed Soloist SL3 model and its bolt-on neck construction means it will be offered at a...
Edmund Blöchinger’s “Dome” guitar has a very intriguing back story. So we thought it would be a great piece of information to share with everyone. Among the fascinating details about this instrument, it is notably interesting that the soundboard comes from the spruce...
Tom Bukovac (aka Uncle Larry) is our favourite guitarist on YouTube – seriously. We won't rest until every guitarist is subscribed to his channel and Homeskoolin' series. The Nashville session master is a natural on camera because he's not trying to prove anything;...
In Memoriam: John Weissenrieder (1964-2017)by Andrea TacchiMy friend John Weissenrieder and I had the pleasure of knowing each other, as well as time spent working together and later, harvesting the work of those years. And now – unexpectedly and with great sadness –...
Paul Gilbert wrote the book on how we approach the electric guitar to deliver a sense of spectacle, pushing the envelope with Racer X and influencing a generation of shredders even before they heard the a click and whirr of his Makita drill.But as a player and a...