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Here's a demo and build of my first amplifier. It is a little 13.5Watt mono mini chip amp with volume control, cooling fan and LED VU meter.

BOSS and Fender USA have collaborated to create the FRV-1, a stunning recreation of the 1963 Fender Reverb®.

This is an ES339 that belongs to one of my students. It's a really great instrument. Gibson has tightened up a lot of significant quality control problems they had in the 90's.

Check out this great PDF by Christopher Davis from the Classical Guitar Blog. Chris has compiled a very clever method for learning the notes all over the fretboard.

Today we continue our look at the basics of counting and keeping a beat.

One of the most obvious questions is how musicians know when to play. Well, it’s easy, they learn to count the beats.

BOSS multi-effects units have developed in two parallel product ranges over the last decade or so with the ME series appealing more to players with lower budgets and less complex requirements, whil...

The late great Randy Rhoads left an indelible mark on the guitar world when he passed away in 1982 with just two Ozzy Osbourne albums to his name, and a pair of Japan-only releases with his origina...

In a previous piece I looked at ways of finding good used guitars at the traditional old bargain-basement haunts such as pawn shops, garage sales and local music stores, with emphasis on what you n...

One of the big surprises for most visitors to the NAMM convention in Anaheim, California this year was the revelation that Ernie Ball Music Man were releasing a new sub-brand called Sterling which ...