The great thing about acoustic guitars is that they don’t need a volume knob or an amplifier to be heard – the guitar’s own resonant body naturally amplifies the sound.…
While working at the local Acoustic Music shop here in Salt Lake City I often sell guitars to first-timers. These people, who’ve never picked up a guitar before in their…
Welcome to the final part of Your First Guitar Song, a four-part series made especially for beginner guitarists. Last week, in Pt. 3: Changing Chords, we combined the three chords from…
Welcome to Part Three of Your First Song, a four-part series made especially for beginner guitarists. In Pt 2: How to Strum a Guitar, we used one of the three chords…
Welcome to Part Two of Your First Guitar Song, a four-part series made especially for beginner guitarists. Last week in Part One we learned the three easy guitar chords (G,…
Welcome to Part One of Your First Song, a four-part series made especially for beginner guitarists. If you want to learn to play a song but you’re feeling a little…
For beginning guitarists, alternate tunings are an impregnable enigma. An impregnable wha…? you ask. Exactly. That’s my point. Beginners don’t understand alternate tunings, much less how they work or why…
The other day I was sitting in the living room with my Nepalese host family here in Kathmandu, waiting out this interminable petrol crisis we’re currently experiencing, trying to ward…
‘… the minimalist attitude is vulnerable to mishap and can lead down the dark and dismal road to disaster …’ So you’ve got your first gig! Well done. But what…
