If you have an electric that has what is called a whammy bar or tremolo arm, you have an exciting opportunity to add a variety of colors to the sound you are crafting on your instrument. A Whammy bar, or tremolo arm is a metal rod that connects to the bridge of your guitar. The bridge is made in such a way that you are able to bend down, and sometimes up, on the guitar bridge and thereby change the notes of your instrument. There are many creative guitar effects that can be produced on the guitar with a tremolo arm. Let’s take a look at 4 whammy bar techniques that can be applied to your six string.

One great thing about the guitar is that there are many things you can learn to play on the guitar without having to know any music theory. However, at some point, in order to understand how your guitar works on a deeper level, it’s important to know some basic music theory. Music theory will allow you to learn chords, scales, and other abilities on the guitar such as sight reading, that will allow you to quickly improve on your instrument. Lets take a look a 4 ways to get a grip on your guitar theory so that you can learn beginner guitar.

Guitar players practice in order to get better. The challenge with practice is that it can be sometimes difficult to know if what is being learned on the guitar is the right way or not. Self evaluation can be tricky to accomplish, especially if you have not played guitar for to long. Guitar technique is a lifelong pursuit for the instrumentalist trying to master and learn guitar. Let’s take a look at 4 simple ways to improve your guitar technique.

There has been an amazing leap in recording technology in the last 15 to 20 years. 20 years ago you were pretty limited to recording your guitar music. Today, you can purchase great software that allows you to record guitar songs that are floating around in your head in your own home private studio. Without having to worry about expensive studio costs, or people watching you play live in the studio, you can record your guitar tracks in the comfort and privacy of your own home. If you make a mistake, who cares, you can just delete your guitar part and try again. Let’s take a look at 4 easy tips for recording your very own personal guitar tracks.

Along with learning how to play your guitar in what is known as standard tuning, E A D G B E. You can also change the pitch on your guitar strings by moving your strings up or down from the standard tuning on your instrument. Get ready for another adventure on your guitar. When you enter the world of detuning your instrument, you have opened up yet another Pandora’s box on your six string. Lets take a look at 5 super simple techniques to follow when playing a detuned six string.

Have you ever heard a song on guitar that you just knew when you heard it, there was something different about what you were hearing on the guitar, and just couldn’t quite put your finger on it? Chances are that you are hearing some kind of detuned guitar. There are some very wild and exciting sounds and songs that have been written using the many methods of detuned guitar. Detuned guitar is where you go from the traditional tuned guitar and change the tuning on your guitar strings. Lets take a look at 4 kinds of detuned guitar styles.

Learning to play the violin is a complex task for one aiming to become a master violinist. It requires years of practice and training under the best instructors and master violinists. It also requires extra efforts when compared to an average person who only wants to learn to play the instrument without the intention of taking it to the next level and mastering it.

Jimmy Reed was born Mathis James Reed on September 6, 1925 at Dunleith, Mississippi. His own distinctive musical style earned him the reputation as American blues musician and songwriter. His appeal to mainstream audiences made him popular in the field of electric blues, giving a contrast to his contemporaries who worked around the more acoustic-band sound. His trademark includes the lazy, slack-jawed singing, piercing harmonica and hypnotic guitar patterns.

John Lee Hooker was born on August 22, 1917 in Coahoma County near Clarksdale, Mississippi. His parents were William Hooker, a sharecropper and preacher, and Minnie Ramsey. He is considered one of the most prominent African-American blues singer-songwriters and guitarists of his age, and is best known for his trademark style of “talking blues”.

Muddy Waters. McKinley Morganfield in real life was born in Issaquena County, Mississippi. He is known as an American blues musician and considered “the Father of Chicago blues”, and was actual father of Big Bill Morganfield and Larry “Mud Morganfield” Williams. The Rolling Stone magazine ranks him at no. 17 of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.