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Tips and Tricks to Keep Your Guitar Shining!
What according to you is the, let’s say the cheapest way to enhance your guitar’s appearance as well as make its tone better? Cleaning, of course! And how can you possibly do that when you dirt, grease, perspiration and smoke accumulates on your guitar? These few things can do some...

Another Band Member of Guns N’ Roses Calls It Quits!
It was only a few days back when DJ Ashba reported called it quits with the legendary band Guns N Roses (check out the full article here) and now Ron ‘Bumblefoot’ Thal has called it quits with the band! Ron Thal has turned out to be the second member this...

Bajaao Recommends - Laney LX-10
It takes the right instruments and the right practice to make a novice into an expert, for a beginner who is learning to play guitar, Laney offers you just the thing! An ideal twin Channel 10 watt, robust Guitar Amp from Laney is a perfect companion for your gig, with...

Stagg Guitar Essentials
With the last blog, we wrote extensively about Stagg Products, explaining about how good Stagg Products are for you. All of the products made by Stagg is made by particular accuracy, making them the best in lot. But what is really the best Stagg Product for you? With this blog,...

The Use Of Scales
The Use Of Scales One of the most common questions I get from students is: "Why should I learn scales?" Some wonder if scales are essential for their playing, while others ask whether they should spend more time practicing scales rather than songs. The truth is, scales are the backbone...

Learn To Use Intervals For Emotion - Part 3
Example for This Lesson Look at the pattern of coloured circles on this next diagram. The solid red circle, numbered zero, is placed at an arbitrary fret. The pattern shows it uses pitches that are two, three, four and ten semitones above the solid red circle (see how they are...

Showing Your Work: The Difference Between 6 And 13
Were you ever discouraged in math class when you were deducted points for not adequately showing all of your work? It seemed like a trivial thing. The answer to 1 + 1 is 2. The answer would always be the answer - and that's all it can be! It's a...

How To Take Any Song And Make A Really Cool Unplugged Acoustic Guitar Version Out Of It
It has become more and more popular over the years to create unplugged acoustic versions of electric songs. Sometimes these acoustic versions you hear sound great, and other times they can kind of miss the mark, and end up sounding pretty average. It all comes down to how you approach...

How To Make The Blues Scale Your Own
When you start out playing blues guitar one of the most challenging things is to make the blues scale actually sound bluesy. It's one of those scales that require an extra effort in order to get some rewarding sounds out of it.You could learn a bunch of licks and try...

Improvising With Knowledge: Lesson 6
I am Greg Studley, and this is Lesson 6 of Improvising With Knowledge on Ultimate Guitar. These lessons are designed to get you accustomed to yet another pentatonic scale shape, which can be used as a major pentatonic scale or minor pentatonic scale when improvising.Here's what we've covered in the...

Neapolitan Chords: What They Are And How To Use Them
Hey guys, I decided to make a very random but informative video about Neapolitan Chords!These chords are my absolute favorite when it comes to chromatic harmony.Neapolitan Chords: Neapolitan Chords have a very distinct sound in the chord progression. A Neapolitan Chord is a bII chord. If we are in A...

Sweep Picking Lesson: Starting From The Inside
I'll keep this as short as possible. The motivation for this video is the fact that most lessons out there require you to perform sweeps in downward/upward motions. That means, you start either by picking the lower strings or the higher strings. Seldom never are you required to start from...