Restringing a Floyd Rose

Here is a video of me restringing a guitar with a floyd rose floating bridge (sometimes miscalled a “tremolo” unit). I was setting up and re-stringing my guitar, when I thought it would be a good idea to video it all and explain what I’m doing…so I’m sorry about the dodgy camera work (I was [...]

January 25, 2012 at 9:55 pm | Equipment and Maintenance | No comments

Finger Weights

This is a bit of an update on an old video I did a while ago about grip strengtheners and finger weights. In that video I was asking just which muscles these weights strengthen- because grip strengtheners strengthen your grip (obviously!) and that might not be what you need for guitar playing purposes… …for playing [...]

September 29, 2011 at 8:10 pm | Reviews | No comments

How to Clean Your Guitar

In this video I take you through the stages of cleaning and maintaining your guitar. Guitar Cleaning Equipment The things that I use in the video to clean my guitar are: Guitar Polish (you can buy this from most guitar or music shops) Lemon Oil (this helps hydrate the wood of the fretboard and stop [...]

July 14, 2011 at 2:00 pm | Equipment and Maintenance | 1 comment

Guitar Lessons: How to Re-String Your Guitar

If your guitar strings are no longer smooth and shiny, but are instead sporting the latest in dull, brown rust, then it’s about time you re-string your guitar! If you play every day, you should have to do this at least every month, maybe even more- and if you’re breaking strings, that’s too long to [...]

July 12, 2011 at 11:00 pm | Equipment and Maintenance, How to | 5 comments

Behringer VT250FX- Review

Price: 186 Euros (including shipping costs) from Thomann. Description: Behringer VT250FX Virtube guitar combo amp 2×50 watts 2 channels 2 x 12″ Bugera vintage guitar speakers VTC tube modeling dual digital FX processor with chorus/delay, chorus, flanger, delay plus separate reverb independent bass, mid and treble tone controls on each channel contour control for radical [...]

May 11, 2011 at 12:09 pm | Reviews | No comments

How to set your Guitar’s Action (string height)

Here’s a video of me playing an Epiphone Les Paul Junior: I set the guitar up myself- which included re-stringing the guitar, and then setting the intonation and action (the height of the strings above the fretboard). Now, re-stringing the guitar was the easy part (and if you have trouble putting new strings on a [...]

June 16, 2010 at 11:00 pm | Equipment and Maintenance, How to | 4 comments

Review: Guitar Pro

For guitarists (as musicians) there’s always been a need for a way to write music on computers. You probably find yourself in the same position- there are a million and one programs designed for “word-processing” (writing words), but very few seem to be created for “notation-processing” (writing out musical notation- yes, I made that word [...]

May 6, 2010 at 11:00 pm | Reviews | 4 comments

Guitar Lessons: How to Tune Your Guitar

I’ve just recently added a new tuning section to the site on tuning and to (celebrate?) this I’ve also recorded a YouTube Video on tuning your guitar. NOTE: this is an updated video. Click here for the original video. In this video I take you through two methods for tuning your guitar, both of which [...]

March 16, 2010 at 11:00 pm | Developing Your Ears, Equipment and Maintenance, How to | 2 comments

Beginner Guitar: 5 Reasons You need to change Your Guitar Strings

Photo by keela84 CC BY 2.0 If you haven’t already read it, I did a post a while ago about re-stringing your guitar in which I explained how to replace old guitar strings… …when they become old… …but how old is old? I don’t want to turn this into one of those “How long is [...]

February 24, 2010 at 4:16 pm | Equipment and Maintenance, How to | 2 comments

10 Reasons why You need a Metronome (part 2)

Right, so it turns out that my “10 Reasons” why you should get a metronome fills two whole (pretty long) blog posts! I can’t say I’m surprised, if you don’t already own or use a metronome you really are missing out on something that will improve your playing no end. If you’re not already convinced [...]

February 9, 2010 at 1:56 pm | Equipment and Maintenance, Guitar Technique and Exercises, Practicing and Practice Routine | No comments

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