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5 days ago · The first guitar that my folks bought for me was a very cheap Spanish guitar, which they paid about £3.10 for, but they soon realized I was getting on quite well teaching myself to play. “So, at Christmas in 1958, they bought me a secondhand Höfner President, and that was a revelation.
5 days ago · He experienced a resurgence of popularity and critical acclaim in the late 1990s. In 2015, Rolling Stone magazine listed Santana at No. 20 on their list of the 100 greatest guitarists. [3] In 2023, Rolling Stone named him the 11th greatest guitarist of all time. [4]
4 days ago · As is the case with most facets of guitar playing, this stringing method is going to come down to personal preference, but after top-wrapping my own instrument I quickly found the Les Paul Studio to behave and feel quite differently to when it was traditionally strung.
5 days ago · How to set up your Guitar: Step 2 – String Action. The string action refers to the distance between the bottom of the string and the top of the fret and plays a vital role in the feel and correct intonation of your instrument. Simply speaking, the string action can be adjusted at both ends of the string, i.e. at the nut and bridge.
5 days ago · No one has lit up the guitar community – excluding Nuno Bettencourt with his breathtaking Rise guitar solo last year – quite like Matteo Mancuso. The 27-year-old Sicilian released his first album, The Journey, last summer and would be the first to admit his life has become a bit of a blur ever since, from the onslaught of tutorial videos dissecting his fingerstyle method to ending up as ...
1 day ago · How an English Punk’s MIJ Electric Got Its Tone. This Teisco MJ-2, also known as an ET-200, comes with a tremolo, grinding surface-mounted pickups, and a deep V-shaped neck. This guitar is the same model that belonged to Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks. Of course, the one that our columnist owns still has its whole body intact.
2 days ago · Guitar Hero is a series of rhythm games first released in 2005, in which players use a guitar-shaped game controller to simulate playing primarily lead, bass, and rhythm guitar across numerous songs.
