Leo Fender was a West Coast-based genius who didn’t even know how to tune a guitar, but he captured the imagination of cowpokes, blues players and emerging rockers when he released his Telecaster solidbody electric in 1950. Gibson had its own non-guitar-playing mastermind in Ted McCarty. ...
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The Floyd Rose style of nut has become popular ever since Floyd Rose invented his revolutionary floating bridge in the late 1970s. The locking nut accompanied the Floyd Rose bridge to help keep a guitar in tune with a changes of the Floyd Rose bridge. Locking nuts are made of metal and h...
If you’re used to playing guitar, it might seem odd that there is a high g-string. In standard reentrant tuning, the pitch of the strings on the ukulele don’t go from lowest to highest. This tuning is part of what makes the ukulele have that bright and charming sound. Reentrant ...
In this article, we will show you how to adjust the trust rod on your guitar 🎸 and get it setup perfectly to tailor to your unique playing style. 🎸
Learning how toadjust your guitar truss rodis one of the most important steps in setting up your guitar. Without a straight neck, you guitar will most likely be difficult to play and will probably be impossible to tune. Likewise, if you don’t know how to do a proper truss rod adjustmen...
Tune the guitar to bring the tension from the strings back to what they would see during normal play. You will likely have to retune all the strings. Test the guitar by playing a little bit to check that have a comfortable amount of string bend and have eliminated all fret buzz. ...
The only time many guitarists even considered changing out a pickup would be if one somehow malfunctioned, and there was no other choice but to replace it. Sure, a player might read in a guitar magazine about someone like the legendary Les Paul tinkering with different pickups, but that ...
To adjust a Gibson truss rod, you’ll need an inexpensive 5/16” wrench and one will often come with the guitar How to adjust your truss rod First, you need to locate the exposed end of the truss rod. If there’s a hole or cover plate next to the nut at the headstock end, that...
For instance, a guitarist might play a song's basic rhythm to a click track, and then the band might record their parts while listening to his or her prerecorded guitar. From Beethoven to beatbox, just about every genre of music has used and benefited from the structure of a metronome....