Archive for March, 2010

Electric Guitar Set Up: How to Maximize Your Guitar’s Performance by Ek Lucktong

Like any precision instrument guitars will perform their best when they are properly set up. By setting up your guitar properly you can maximize your guitar’s potential and also customize how it will feel, play, and sound to your liking. There are some adjustments that are best left to a professional but you can do a lot yourself with just a few simple tools. Here (more…)

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Posted by on March 5th, 2010 No Comments

Guitar Tuning with Natural Harmonics–Downbeating by Ek Lucktong

Downbeating describes the technique whereby natural harmonics are used in tuning guitars. This is a very effective way to tune guitars that can be more accurate than just tuning by ear. It is also a great way of fine tuning once your have approximated tuning with standard techniques.

A prerequisite technique you must learn before you can use downbeating is hitting (more…)

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Posted by on March 3rd, 2010 No Comments

3 Easy Songs For Beginner Guitar Players – Simple Rock Guitar Chords E A and D

Here are 3 easy songs with a rock feel to them for beginner guitar players. You only need to know the chords E, A and D.  If they’re not what you’d normally listen to, they will still be very easy to learn and sound great first time.

The Troggs : Wild Thing. Chords A D E

The chords are simple, the strumming is both simple and unique, everyone’s (more…)

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Posted by on March 1st, 2010 No Comments