The Acoustic Guitar

After learning a series of guitar solos on the electric guitar I found that there was a hole in my skill set! I could learn the tab for playing some awesome solo’s but when it came to stringing them together with some chords to play a complete song I started to struggle!

With this in mind, I started thinking that I should get an acoustic guitar and put in some proper chord work to get me underway.

To that end I got Continue reading “The Acoustic Guitar”

The Guitar Order – Gordon Smith

Well about half way through my lessons I started to understand a lot more around the sounds from a guitar and what I wanted from my guitar. Which then prompted me to look in to buying one for myself and returning my brothers back to him.

After weeks of reading and looking through review web sites about Guitars, their sounds and other characteristics I got to the point where I felt I could ruck up to a Music shop and try some out and try and find one that was right Continue reading “The Guitar Order – Gordon Smith”

Guitar – Getting up and Going

The back ground to this story starts some time ago… [some time around 1990…after ‘Appetite for Destruction’ and before ‘Use Your Illusion’] where I used to attempt to join in with my good friend in playing the guitar, not having a guitar of my own I used to borrow my friends second guitar (Rockwood Hohner – Les Paul copy) this way of self teaching got me about 3 single string licks of a couple of Metallica intros!

Long story short, my brother Continue reading “Guitar – Getting up and Going”