Gray Rollins asked: The Acoustic Guitar As was mentioned in our article on "the History of the Guitar," guitars have been around for centuries. The original guitars were Acoustic guitars, which changed in shape over several hundred years. Since you've already been given a timeline of the evolution of the guitar, in this article we'll go into greater depth discussing the Acoustic guitar itself. History The Acoustic guitar is essentially a descendent ...

Calum Macleod asked: In the eighties it was all new romantics and hair metal, then grunge and britpop in the 90's among other things. Now we've got, um, skinny jeans but enough about them. The difference with now is that all of those new genres in the past never went away. This is evident when you take a look at what acts are playing in your nearest city. There's new ...

Andrew Koblick asked: Whether you are an amateur or a professional guitar player, you will agree that you can never say that there’s nothing more you can learn in playing the guitar. There’s always one more guitar lesson you have to learn in order to become even more proficient. One should never underestimate the power and the advantages of practice, and practice is the only way you can become ...

Gaskell Guitars asked: Left Hand guitar players the world over have always had a problem with availability of left handed guitars. Many left handed people newly learning to play guitar end up learning to play right handed out of frustration. Many experienced left handed guitarists have simply become apathetic and given up looking for that which is abundant for right handed players. Not only is there a limited range of ...

Trevor Greenfield asked: Getting started to learn guitar is no different to learning anything else. The sooner we can start to sound half-way decent the better. All we want to do is go from that point of knowing little or nothing to becoming very familiar with the subject in the shortest time possible. People get into playing guitar in lots of different ways and sometimes the way that you are introduced ...

Gray Rollins asked: Electric Guitars The Electric guitar hasn't been around nearly as long as the Acoustic and Classical guitars. In fact, the Electric guitar was created just 70 years ago (the 1930s) by Adolph Rickenbacker. Since that time, the Electric guitar has greatly evolved to the where it is today. In this article, we'll go over the history of the Electric guitar. The History Guitars, or similar instruments, have been around for ...