Acoustic Guitar 5 Steps (and $9) That Will Save Your Guitar From the Heat Is your guitar getting too hot (or cold) in storage? Sometimes it's hard to know. The optimum temperature to store an acoustic guitar is 70° - 75° F, or 21° - 24° C. Optimum humidity is 40 - 50%. The general wisdom is that you shouldn’t keep
Acoustic Guitar Top 5 Places for Online Acoustic Blues Guitar Lessons Acoustic blues guitar lessons are partially a study in history. That's because acoustic blues goes back as far as the early 1900's with players like Robert Johnson (the granddaddy of acoustic blues), Lead Belly, and Big Bill Broonzy. It doesn't stop there, though. There&
Acoustic Guitar The Top 6 Best Acoustic Guitar Amps I’ve used an acoustic guitar amp in a lot of settings: concerts, weddings, churches, and just at home practicing. Acoustic guitar amps have come a long way in the last 20 years thanks to improved technology, specifically the ability to both warm up and make your acoustic sound “natural”
Apps & Tech The 9 Best Guitar Tuner Apps If you're looking for the best guitar tuner app, you're likely to go search the App Store for "guitar tuner" ...and you'll get 452 results. That's a lot of guitar tuners. But which one is best? After downloading some apps,
Acoustic Guitar 14 Ways to Practice Guitar on a Business Trip (Without Bringing a Guitar) Background: You’re flying out to Chicago this week from Los Angeles for 2 days. The trip is for business and is a relatively quick turnaround. Unfortunately, it’s not convenient to bring your guitar along on the trip. So what’s the best way to keep up some practice
Acoustic Guitar A Comprehensive Beginner's Guide on How to Use Guitar Tabs Guitar tabs are a godsend for most guitarists. They allow us to easily figure out how to play a song by plotting out numbers, which correspond to your guitar's frets, on six lines which correspond to your guitar's strings. This is a much easier method than
Acoustic Guitar Phil Keaggy and His Craft I first encountered Phil Keaggy when I was probably 3 or 4 years old. My dad was jamming out the chords to “Full Circle” on his acoustic guitar (my brother still plays that lick 30 years later). Since then, he’s floated in and out of my musical awareness as
Apps & Tech App Review: Keeping Your Tabs Organized with Practice Book Practice Book solves a basic problem for all sorts of guitarists: quickly accessing your favorite tabs. If you’re like me, you often look up a tab (or ten) and simply leave them open in the web browser while you play. Then, the inevitable happens. A week later, you refresh
Player Profile Chet Atkins Chet Atkins was known around the world as as "Mr. Guitar" and "The Country Gentleman". He was not only a guitar player, but an occasional vocalist, songwriter, and a record producer. He helped to create the country music style that came to be known as the
