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How Clean Guitar - Keep Your Instrument In Working Order With Easy Tips

By Kyle Hoffman · 15 years ago

How often you clean your guitar can really prolong the detail and the overall life of the instrument. For guitarists that tend to reject their guitar's "health," they find it returns the favor by breaking ...

Drop Guitar Tuning - Tips On Tuning Your Guitar To Drop D Or C

By Kyle Hoffman · 15 years ago

There may have come a time in your guitar career that you've encountered someone who used a drop guitar tuning. You may have thought to yourself, "I thought that retuning your guitar from anything but ...

Guitar Blink 182 - The Secrets To A Blink 182 Guitar Sound

By Kyle Hoffman · 15 years ago

Tom Delonge has always contributed a great guitar sound to Blink 182 that has become his signature. Lucky for you, creating a tone for your guitar Blink 182-style, is fairly simple. By taking some of ...

How To Metal Guitar - Learn To Play Brutal With 7 Fast Tips

By Kyle Hoffman · 15 years ago

How to play metal guitar is a great decision to make considering the skills you can learn from such a technical style of music. If you think about it, metal guitarists have a great sense ...

Safe And Sound Guitar - 6 Item Checklist For Your Instrument's Hard-shell Case

By Kyle Hoffman · 15 years ago

We all want to know that our guitar is being kept safe and sound wherever it may be. It's a very expensive piece of equipment that a musician might base his entire life on keeping ...

How To Guitar Play - 7 Tips To Start Playing Guitar Fast

By Kyle Hoffman · 15 years ago

Have you always thought about how to play the guitar but keep putting it off because you just don't have the time? Well that shouldn't be an excuse! Playing the guitar is a great hobby ...

How Palm Mute - Making Stiff Staccato Notes On Your Guitar

By Kyle Hoffman · 15 years ago

How to palm mute notes on a guitar is a standard lesson that every guitarist should go through. Ever since guitar songs were composed of loud introductions, softer verses, and then loud choruses, palm muted ...

Guitar Delonge - 7 Tips To Play Guitar Like Blink 182

By Kyle Hoffman · 15 years ago

Tom Delonge's guitar skills may not be the most impressive thing on the planet, but he does have enough skills to become a punk rock icon. Because of Blink 182's catchy music, they've played hundreds ...

Guitar Alternate Tuning - What's The Point Of Drop D and C?

By Kyle Hoffman · 15 years ago

Have you ever come across a guitarist or a piece of guitar music that insisted on a guitar alternate tuning like "drop d" or "drop c"? Don't the people understand that retuning your guitar is ...

Fast Picking Guitar - Tips on Taking Your Skills to New Speeds

By Kyle Hoffman · 15 years ago

Really, all it takes to master fast picking guitar is consistent practice, dedication, and a few pointers to give you some direction. Here are some things that I've found can help you progress a little ...

7 Easy Metal Songs To Play On Guitar

By Kyle Hoffman · 15 years ago

So you may have started playing guitar, learning the necessary skills to get yourself going, and now you're on the hunt for easy metal songs to play on guitar. Well, I salute you for indulging ...