I would say I’m an early intermediate guitar player that took lesson with a local instructor, but haven’t had a lesson in over a year, and know some barre chords. Would it be worth my time to start at Guitar Tricks to get my skills back and learn late intermediate skills...
Martin Barre always got his big moments in a way that enhanced the structure of Jethro Tull’s pieces. For this one, he and Ian Anderson came up with a structural device – playing the verse chords in half-time, then speeding them back up – that worked. The famous story is that Jimmy...
Interesting things start to happen when you take these chords through their inversions. On the staff, it’s possible to take any chord through all its inversions. However, the physical nature of the guitar makes this challenging for some voicings, and something has got to give. For example, ...
Chords sound detailed and full, but only in low—to mid-gain levels. Speaking of gain levels, driving this classic guitar headphone amp up too much results in muddy-sounding chords and fizzy single-note lines. This is unfortunate but understandable, given this unit’s price and target market...
To make matters worse I have called the customer support number multiple times asking if I could recieve a partial refund, or ship back the amp for a functioning replacement–every time I'm left on hold before the call disconnects, if I can even get through to begin with. The only ...
It's also a great value for the price.Since Summer 2022 has been a season of extreme temperatures, and since I'm sensitive to high heat and humidity, we need to track both throughout our home.We already had three similar devices, but needed one more. This one looked good, and it's...
“Seth had the initial idea for the chords, the intro and the feel of that song, but once we played it, I felt like it was a Mad Max, ‘riding a motorbike in a desert’ feel, so we went back and forth with the lyrics, and after a few iterations it’s a mix and match of al...
You need to recreate that stadium in your mix for your solo to really shine. Create Some Depth Reverb is a great effect to place your instruments in a specific space. While traditional instruments can be bussed to a few smaller room settings, your guitar solo is likely coming at the apex...
The HX Stomp XL hits that perfect balance that so many guitarists have been asking for. It's like Line 6 took everything great about theirflagship Helix processor, carefully chose the features working musicians actually use, and packed them into something that fits on a regular pedalboard. The...
It’s safe to say that I’m someone who has a predilection foroverdrive, so I surprise myself spending most of my time on the lowest gain switch setting with the gain knob set around two o’clock. It’s here that I find plenty of grunt and power available when digging in, and, wh...