In April, The Dallas Guitar Show will be hosting a Guitar Solo Contest and a Under 21 Contest. Is one style of guitar playing better than the other? Will shredders always win against the finger-style acoustic players in these things? I don’t think so. Here on GuitarPlayerZen.com we preach artist appreciation across all genres of [...]

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Check out our Featured Artist of the Week, Robert Riley’s profile page on the OnlineGuitarNetwork.com and show him some love! One of our main buddies, Brian Lowe, shot a nice little promo video for us. He is on tour with Jake McVey, and they are doing outstanding on the country charts! GPZ Commercial Want to [...]

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How do you develop strength and control in your left hand in the most optimum and efficient way? Well that’s a good question! Contrary to what some may think, pushing down the strings as hard as you can is counter productive to guitar playing. Not only can it lead to tuning problems, it could lead [...]

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I am a total gear freak. I have always been into tone. “Tone is in your head”, Frank Zappa is quoted as having said to Steve Vai, who wondered why his own guitar sounded like “an electric ham sandwich”. And I couldn’t agree more with Mr. Zappa: the touch of the musician is what makes [...]

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The phrase The Long Tail was first coined by Chris Anderson in an October 2004 Wired magazine article [1] to describe the niche strategy of certain business such as Amazon.com or Netflix. The distribution and inventory costs of those business allow them to realize significant profit out of selling small volumes of hard-to-find items to [...]

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