Hey guys! Today an article I wrote, Do You Have What it Takes to Do Your Own Thing, is being featured on one of my favorite personal development blogs , Life Optimizer.
Donald Latumahina has some awesome insights in how to realize your potential in life . Be sure to [...]

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“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”
-Christopher Reeve
With tonight being the season premiere of Heroes, I am pretty pumped up.   Man is this not the greatest show in the history of all shows?
It got me thinking….What makes a hero?
Can you objectify it?
How many [...]

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Here is a great clip of one of our past Featured Artists of the Week, and former Brooks & Dunn guitarist, Charlie Crowe doing what he does best. This is a great guitar version of Little Wing, and you will see why Charlie has had such a great career playing music!
Charlie Crowe with [...]

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With it being Memorial Day weekend, we figured why not remember some of our fallen guitar heroes?
God Bless all the great music that came out of these guys! Here is a short list along with their WikiPedia bio pages for all you guitar players to visit and pay your respect:
Jimi Hendrix
Stevie [...]

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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 [...]

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Your guitar chops are pretty slick.  Your perm has been extra poofy lately.

Ever wonder how you could become an endorsed guitar player?
Wouldn’t it be cool to see yourself in a poster for your favorite gear?
Here is a look at our friend, Brian Lowe’s blog talking about his own endorsements:
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I’ve been playing for 8 years and I practice heavily about 3 hrs a day. With that being said, you’d think I can play confidently in a music store, right?
Wrong! It seems that every time I’m in a music store, I don’t know what to play.
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What are the two most frequent guitarist lies?

1. I am not too loud

2. I already turned it down

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Q: What’s the difference between a fiddle and a violin?

A: Who cares - neither one’s a guitar.

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Q: How do you get a guitar player to turn down?

A: Put sheet music in front of him.

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I first heard about what Dave Mustaine said from my buddy Ovidiu from Guitarflame.com, and I couldn’t resist talking about Dave’s words. Here’s what he said:
“I wanted bands that weren’t necessarily smash successes but that have been around for a while and built a following,” he said. “And I wanted bands that have had [...]

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This is my first post of many, I will post every month or week on matters that deal with guitar design, tonal structure, and various other topics, some of which may be very helpful, some may even be debatable. I do not claim to be some tonal guru, or try [...]

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