Decades ago, I learned how to play a guitar on my own through books (internet and YouTube were not a thing then—yes, I am that old). It was not easy. Fast forward to today, there’s no excuse for anyone who wants to learn how to play a guitar not being […]
Guitar, like many musical instruments, is not easy to pick up (pun not intended). But thanks to modern wonders like the AeroBand Guitar, shredding your favorite tunes just got a lot simpler—and a lot smarter. This digital MIDI guitar is so intuitive it might have Beethoven slapping his forehead, wondering […]
More news from Hello Kitty‘s 50th birthday celebration. In addition to the scooters, timepieces, and Crocs, electric guitar maker Fender has stepped into the party with the Fender x Hello Kitty 50th Anniversary Collection. Included in this lineup is the playful yet performance-ready Hello Kitty Stratocaster—an electric axe that screams […]
If there’s one rock star who made the electric guitar impossible to ignore, it’s Jimi Hendrix. Sure, you’ve seen rockers playing with their teeth (which Jimi Hendrix did also) and smashing guitars, but Hendrix went ahead and lit his guitar on fire. On stage. Now, you probably won’t ever get […]
Gibson Les Paul electric guitar ages like a fine wine. It has a timeless look and sound but like Tangara’s modern interpretation of the classic click-wheel iPod, it wouldn’t hurt to give this classic a dose of modernization and refinement in today’s context. Well, modernization and refinements are exactly what […]
Music is a form of art. But it has recently become even more artsy, well, at least it is on the electric guitar front – thanks to Epiphone collaborations with TOOL’s Adam Jones. The guitar maker is celebrating 150 years of rocking the instrument world with a bang.
We have featured many musical instruments here, especially guitars, but I don’t believe we have ever seen one that we can call weird. OK. Maybe the Conceptual Vocal Synthesizer with its singing plastic teeth is weird. The point is, it is rare for “weird” and “musical instruments” to be in […]
If you live and breathe rock music, and electric guitar, then you would have heard of “Greeny”, the most iconic original Les Paul Standards ever made. “Greeny” stood out with a unique sound that is as recognizable as the guitar itself, made even more distinctive partly from the out-of-phase middle […]
The Flying V electric guitar dates back to the 50s but it was not until the golden age of heavy metal that it once again rose to prominence when it was used by metal bands like Kiss, Scorpions, Metallica, and perhaps most notably Dave Mustaine, the co-founder and frontman of […]
If you look at guitartist (that’s a guitar artist, one who makes guitar art, btw) Burls Art YouTube channel, you will notice he does not produce many guitars. The reason is obvious: it takes an insane amount of time for an individual to custom guitars with unusual materials. His latest […]
The Les Paul, the ES-335, the Flying V, the Explorer, the Firebird, the SG, and more, were guitars that were developed during Theodore “Ted” McCarty’s tenure as the president of Gibson.