Guitars in general

I started taking piano lessons at the age of eight and by the time I was sixteen I had reached grade five. I had become a fan of rock music and had a strong desire to be one of those long haired tatooed heavy metal nutters that you saw everywhere back in the early nineties. I convinced my dad to buy me a guitar for my birthday. He's glad I did so! He also bought one for himself at the same time so that he could learn. They were both steel string acoustic yamaha's. Seeing as though I already had a good knowledge of music I picked it up quite quickly and starting getting good. My dad asked me to teach him but after hour upon hour he eventually ...  Read the complete review

First up, I make no apologies for this review being a guide to those wanting to start off in guitars. Yes, there are some generalizations here, but I think the points are valid. Having played the guitar for five or six years now, I am always devastated to see beginners go out and buy really expensive ones, and thought I could share a bit of advice here for those interested in buying a guitar. Playing the guitar is hard. Sure, you can pick up the basics easily, but they'll soon bore you and you'll be on to bar chords and finger picking before you know it. There is a huge drop out rate, and as a result millions of unloved guitars are sat gathering ...  Read the complete review

I've been playing for, hmm, must be three years nearly now. Over this period of time I've accumulated a modest collection of gear - three guitars, a bass, a digital modelling FX box and a digital 8-track. In this, my first DooYoo review (yay!) I'll cover my three six-stringed instruments of destruction. Bwahahahahaha. --==THE APPLAUSE AE-28 ACCOUSTIC INSTRUMENT OF DOOM==-- My Applause AE-28 was the first guitar in my collection, bought as an ex-demo model for £150 from Sound Control in Glasgow. Like all three of my guitars, it had the certain 'something' I now look for as soon as I started playing it. If a guitar doesn't say ...  Read the complete review

I sold this guitar a few years ago but it's memory lives on. I bought it as a package second hand and the price was comparitively cheap. It looked good and sounded good. Very similar to a Fender in design with a fender strat shaped body and a slight camber on the neck it felt great to play and the frets were nice and wide for fast and easy lead runs. The main draw back was the lack of a locking top nut (easily remedied) but one thing this guitar had that the others I looked at didn't was a coil tap on the bridge pick-up (allows you to change from a double coil to a single coil for a sharper sound). Most of the Aria guitars in ...  Read the complete review

Do you want to be a guitar god in just three weeks ??? Well if you do, unfortunately after these few weeks you will be spectacularly dissappointed. So many people I have seen with such a love for music and guitars, then the obvious progressive step of wanting a guitar and a band come along. But if suddenly this person can't play much inside a few weeks, they jack it in, and probably just end up selling it, Apart from to get out at various occasionals for a horrible twangy version of smeels like teen spirit (thats if they got even to power chords) the guitar will be a big waste. Basically I am writing this because i'm not one of these sorts of people, ...  Read the complete review