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Air guitar show

If you missed the hilarious Air Guitar Show it’s coming on DVD.

“Amped about this ax”

“The Burst guitar, with its lush finish and rich sound, has gone from pawnshop to castoff to $500,000 collectible.”
“When Joe Ganzler found Gladys, it was love at first sight. She had a curvaceous body and graceful neck. When he held her in his arms and turned her on, she filled with electricity and purred. ‘The [...]

USB recording interface

I recently purchased the Line 6 TonePort GX for my nephew; it’s a small USB connected device, sort of a music synthesizer for electric guitars, which works with PCs or Macs. The software that comes with the device offers a hardware-like iunterface that resembles a personal sound studio, and the device itself is small enough [...]

Big Rock guitar picks

“Guitar picks, despite varying in size, thickness and material, typically share one common trait – they’re flat and thus lack an adequate grip surface. Sweaty fingers and/or heated play can cause the guitarist to struggle to control the pick as it shifts position or ends up being dropped. In response, the guitar player may end [...]

You have to go here

Exotic guitars. Keyword: exotic. Some of the designs look like they’d be more at home in a custom motorcycle shop.

Making your own strat

It doesn’t look that hard. Beginning to end pictorial direct from a workshop. Get the template for this guitar here (and you don’t need to pay cash–not exactly)

Free chord generator download

Download chord generator for free–a billion combinations, so it says. Here’s an example.

Expensive

Some fantastic instruments at Todd Green site. Here’s a couple.

Riffs

There some famous guitar riffs (Doors, Santana, etc) in tab form; click and hear how it’s supposed to be played.

Some jazz guitar greats

Barney Kessel-Kenny Burrell-Grant Green, playing Blue Mist

“How to be a guitar God”

WikiHow has the answer. Here’s step one: “Buy an inexpensive guitar when you first start. It actually makes you better because you have to actually be a good player to sound good. A rubbish practice amp is good as well; sometimes you don’t even need an amp when practicing.”