A Brief History of the Electric Guitar

Electric guitars are found in bedrooms and rehearsal garages and performance venues all across the continent and beyond. Every day tens of thousands of people engage with a guitar in one way or another, whether music lessons or a garage band or as a pro player or...

The Les Paul Recording Guitar

As a young player I had owned several Les Pauls and heard about the release of the new line of Les Pauls, the Professional and the Personal. The promo for the line revolved around this being the ultimate Les Paul that was ideal for recording . It was said to have the...

Triads and Inversions

Over the last few decades Pop guitar styles have leaned more toward the ubiquitous power chord and overdriven amps and less toward the intricacies of solo guitar and harmony, melody and voice leading . For the player that wants to discover the inner workings of the...