For a lot of players, growing out your fingernails for picking isn’t an option, whether that’s because you work a job incompatible with long fingernails or your nails are brittle and break easily. Using finger picks lets you get a sharp, clear attack with a sound that’s livelier than using just your fingertips. The material […]

Cables are one of those things that often get overlooked by a lot of guitar and bass players. This is true despite the fact that cables are also among the most essential pieces of gear you can have in your inventory. If you take a peek into the gear room of any successful bass player, […]

Guitar potentiometers (i.e., the pot) are the most overlooked parts of any electric guitar. That is mostly because not a lot of people even know what pots do aside from lowering the volume or changing the tone of the pickups. Guitar pots are rated for resistance, and this rating can have a large impact on […]

Every step your signal travels between your finger plucking the string and the music hitting the audience’s ears has an impact on the final sound. Granted, some things have a bigger influence than others. You might not need to spend as much time thinking about your cables as you do about your amp and pedals, […]

Switching to locking tuners can be a tricky decision since most guitars come with traditional tuners. So the transition from traditional to locking tuners does require a modification of your headstock—one that’s relatively quick and easy, but the idea of anyone drilling new holes in your precious guitar can be scary. Still, locking tuners do […]

For most guitar players, playing guitar with gloves on sounds counter intuitive. With that said, there are those who must use gloves if they want to play stringed instruments at all. The reason for this is a number of medical conditions that makes playing guitar without gloves borderline impossible. However, this is not the only […]

Using a guitar wall hanger is the second best way to store your guitars (the first is to pack them in a good quality case and put them in a room that isn’t humid, but then you and others can’t see them!). So, if we take that a regular guitar owner’s room is dry, a […]

Upgrading the bridge on your Telecaster is a more involved process than changing out your strings or pickups, but it is still a relatively common way to customize your tone. The bridge has more impact on the sustain of your notes than other commonly-upgraded aspects like the nut and frets; changing the material used in […]

As one of the most important but frequently overlooked aspects of musicianship, proper posture is vital both for delivering a good performance and for remaining physically healthy and fit after many years and thousands of hours invested in guitar playing. With that in mind, we decided to make a rundown of best guitar practice chairs. […]