Who doesn't know this guitar god? The playing ranges from blues, jazz, rock to classical and ethnic music. His guitar playing is not limited to the guitar community but also to lay people who don't study guitar. At the age of 6, Steve began studying piano. At the age...
Andy McKee is an acoustic guitarist from Kansas who uses fingerstyle as his playing style. This man became famous through the Youtube video network. McKee was introduced to the guitar at the age of thirteen, and his first guitar was an Aria with nylon strings. From...
Joe Satriani, first learned the guitar when he was 14 years old. At the age of 15, Joe was already teaching guitar (for 3 years) to several of his students, including Steve Vai, Kirk Hammet (Metallica) and Larry LaLonde (Primus). You can imagine how diligently and...
Apart from being the guitarist of God Bless, Ian Antono also worked on compositions and included his guitar playing for several artists, including Nicky Astria, Ikang Fawzi, Anggun C Sasmi, Ebiet G Ade, and others. In addition, Ian is also good at making songs. Some...
Today's rock guitarists looking for a timeless teacher or simply looking at the top of their game will only talk about one person: Jimi Hendrix. It is to him, and from him alone, that all existing techniques are referred. Consider these confessions published in Guitar...
As a huge fan of Schecter Guitars, I've also been super attracted to their various PT models. These are their spin on the Telecaster, bringing their great build quality and modern appointments to a classic Fender shape. Especially a few years ago, when they released...
Eddie Van Halen is a guitarist where he is also part of the top American rock group called Van Halen. The man born in Nijmegen, Netherlands is known as an electric guitar player who has a lot of innovations in playing his guitar. Eddie even did a combination between a...
There's been a lot of talk about guitar prices in recent years, with inflation, price hikes, and turbulent used markets. As a man who is not particularly wealthy, I've definitely felt the pain and have begun exploring cheaper alternatives for gigging and traveling....
Picking technique is one of the key aspects of guitar playing that is often overlooked. In this article, we will discuss why picking technique is so important and how you can improve it: Speed Control: Good picking technique allows you to control your speed while...
Let's be honest, this article could be an entire book – there are so many incredibly talented guitarists out there. Some are overshadowed by other famous artists within the band, some are studio legends who spend the majority of their careers out of the public eye. In...