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How to Change Guitar Chords
It takes years of practice to truly master the guitar. It is an instrument that requires advanced manual dexterity and muscle memory. You don’t need to be a Stevie Ray Vaughan or a Carlos Santana to perfect the act of playing guitar and [...]
How to Mosh
Like the devil’s horns and long rhythm guitar solos, moshing is an important part of the heavy metal culture. Moshing is a freestyle group dance that takes place among the audience, usually near the stage, where the band members and fans interact in [...]
How to String an Acoustic Guitar
Adding new strings to an acoustic or folk guitar can help make it sound better for certain types of music. Over time the strings may be damaged, or you may want to give your guitar a different sound and feel. Here’s how you [...]
How to Use a Distortion Pedal
A distortion pedal helps make a guitar sound more interesting, or give life to familiar renditions of the same song. It can also achieve certain musical effects better, depending on what distortion pedal that you use. However, keep in mind that a distortion [...]
How to Beatbox
The human voice is capable of a very wide range of sounds that can be used for anything from conversation to music. Beatboxing is very popular in hip-hop and improvisational music, because beatboxers have the ability to mimic an entire collection of [...]
How to Play Sitar
The sitar is one of the essential instruments of Hindi classical music, but it has also found its way to modern rock music. Sitar is a lot like guitar, only that the mechanics and technicalities of the sitar are much more sensitive and [...]
How to Change Guitar Tube Amps
A big thing with many guitar players in modern times is the use of “tube amps” which are guitar amps that run their sound solely off of vacuum tubes. There are a few important guidelines needed when you’re going to change these tubes.
What [...]
How to Play the Guitar in Rock Band
Nintendo Wii’s Rock Band game provides anyone a chance to be a star in their very own rock band. If you want to emulate the likes of The Edge, Van Halen, Jimi Hendrix or Eric Clapton despite having no idea how to play [...]
How to Play the Ukulele
The ukulele may seem to be a child’s instrument, but it is one of the most fun and lively string instruments that you can play. Anyone can play a ukulele; but like any musical instrument, it takes a lot of practice and [...]
How to Play Guitar Left-Handed
Kurt Cobain, Jimmy Hendrix, Paul McCartney, and Tony Iommi are just four of the names of great guitarists who play the instrument left-handed. Most guitars are built and designed to be played by right-handed people, but left-handed guitarists can buy a left-handed guitar, [...]