Review of: Epiphone Les Paul Standard Plustop Pro Guitar by Brian Lamacraft 30 % Overall Solid build with lots of features Looks as close to a real Les Paul as you can get Superior pickups to other “Les Paul style” guitars Huge range of finishes Priced a bit high for some The many options on … Read more
Review of: Epiphone Les Paul 100 Guitar by Brian Lamacraft Tones 0% Playability 0% Hardware 0% Value 0% 30 % Overall The guitar features the classic Les Paul look so it is an extended version of that iconic guitar Twin humbucking pickups for rock, blues, metal, and other music that most people want to play … Read more
Review of: Epiphone Les Paul Custom Pro Guitar by Brian Lamacraft 30 % Overall Looks plays and feels like a real Gibson Les Paul Enhanced features that other Epiphone Guitars simply don’t have Top quality high output humbucking pickups that sound excellent Loaded with extras and attention to detail It’s a little on the costly … Read more
Review of: Epiphone DR-100 Guitar by Brian Lamacraft Tones 0% Playability 0% Hardware 0% Value 0% 30 % Overall Perfect beginner acoustic guitar Sounds great for the price you pay Easy to pick up and play Comes in several colors Lacks the punch of a full-featured acoustic guitar Hard to play higher frets because there … Read more
Review of: Epiphone Casino Guitar by Brian Lamacraft Tones 0% Playability 0% Hardware 0% Value 0% 30 % Overall The guitar has two nice humbuckers for a full range of sound You get both acoustic and electric sounds thanks to the F-holes A nice stable bridge Looks very attractive The guitar is a little large … Read more
These are some of the most essential, bread-and-butter, don’t-leave-home-without-them type acoustic guitar techniques. You’ve probably heard them on many recordings. Let’s start with what I call…Pluck & DampThis is a fingerstyle technique that I like a lot. The alternate plucking and damping creates a very nice percussive groove that is just perfect for mid-tempo songs. … Read more
The 12 bar blues is one of the most popular types of chord progression in contemporary music. As the name suggests, it features in blues guitar a great deal, It is also used very commonly in jazz, rock, pop, country and even heavy metal. A 12 bar blues can be played in any key, and … Read more
The Complete Idiot’s Guide (CIG) to Guitar Exercises by Hemme Luttjeboer is a complete book of guitar exercises. It covers chord exercises based around the CAGED system, single note exercises employing scales and Arpeggios. The book also includes an introduction to fingerpicking with some right-hand exercises. While you’re likely to learn some basic theory while working … Read more
What is a power chord?Power chords are a basic element of modern electric guitar playing. They are found throughout all genres of contemporary music, and feature heavily in rock, alternative, punk and metal guitar, because they will still sound clear, bold and full through an overdriven or distorted amplifier. A power chord has only 2 notes … Read more
An electric guitar really does sound a lot better when it’s in tune. Even the nicest, priciest, most gorgeous fourteen thousand dollar special edition Les Paul will sound terrible if the tuning is out. If you’re not sure exactly what you should tune to, here’s a guide.What tunings are out there?Standard tuning on a guitar … Read more