Guitar effects pedals come in all shapes and sizes. They have one primary goal – to alter the sound that your guitar produces.

There are literally hundreds of guitar effects pedals to choose from – some creating noises and sounds that you would find hard to fit into, what I would call, normal music. [Read more →]

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I want to bring to everyone’s attention a fantastic post by a member of the forum regarding how to go about starting to teach guitar.

If you are a guitaris then you may have considered using your skills to help others - and earn a bit of cash along the way. Getting the students is the easiest part - the hard part comes with knowing what to teach when they are there.

I am certain you will find this post useful

http://forums.ollysguitar.com/viewtopic.php?p=888#888

Come and join in the discussion.

There is a big step in guitar playing to be able to make music rather than just play the guitar. At the Guitar Forums I have written a post regarding what I believe to be the key for guitarists to become musicians.

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I have written a post in the guitar forum regarding the relationship between chords and scales.

This relates specifically regarding how chords are built by using the major scale. This is fundamental inforamtion for any musician as well as any guitarist.

The major scale is the building block for everything musical so it is important to try and understand how it works and how it relates to chords.

Get this under your belt and learning anything else to do with the guitar or anything musical will become much clearer and a lot easier to understand.

If there are any aspects that I have not been clear on then please either leave a comment here or feel free to comment in the forum and I, or another member of the forum will be happy to assist you.

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If you have a guitar with a Floyd Rose tremelo system then you may struggle with changing the strings. I have written and article on how to do this over at the Forums

http://forums.ollysguitar.com/viewtopic.php?t=149

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