There are a number of guitar accessories that you might want to buy for your guitar. Guitar accessories are relatively cheap and if you are buying a guitar, you might be able to pick up a good deal if you want to buy a number of accessories as well.

Here is a list of guitar accessories to consider (in order of the most popular):

* Guitar bag or case
* Guitar tuner/pitch pipe
* Guitar strings
* Effects pedals/Foot Switches
* Amplifiers
* Guitar stands
* Plectrums (also known as picks)
* Guitar Leads/Cables
* Guitar straps
* Guitar Capo
* Guitar Slide
* Headphones
* Metronome
* Cleaning and maintenance (polish, nut file set, wrench set, fret file set)
* Footstool
* Stringwinder (also known as a pegwinder)
* Straplok set
* Power adaptor for effects pedals

Guitar Bags and Cases

If you plan on gigging a lot or travelling on planes/trains etc. I recommend buying a guitar case, otherwise a padded gig bag will do just fine. The Kinsman guitar cases and guitar bags are a very good quality and are also one of the most popular. The Kinsman guitar bags come in three grades.

1) Standard – hardly any padding and one small pouch for music books and accessories

2) Deluxe – quite well padded, with two pouches

3) Premium – extremely well padded, with large and small pouches and a shoulder strap.

The Kinsman guitar cases are made for Stratocasters, Telecasters, Les Paul shape, electric, acoustic or bass guitars. Read the rest of this entry »

Are you happy with the color of your electric guitar? If you’re not have you ever thought to custom paint it?
It took a lot of consideration for some people to strip down their guitar and I don’t recommend it if you’re not comfortable with the idea, however if you have an old electric guitar to experiment with and you can take the risk of damaging it then you can try this idea.

Custom paint jobs are expensive. A good guitar custom paint shop can charge you easily $200 for a simple coating work, and the more complicated the custom design the more expensive the cost will be. I find it ridiculous to send a cheap guitar to this shop because the paint job price is more expensive than the guitar price itself. If you don’t know how to custom paint your guitar there is a good tutorial you can buy, and when you master the work there is always a possibility to make this custom paint guitar as your side job. A good guitar painting tutorial will cover everything needed to paint your guitar including how to select a good combination of paint colors and how to do airbrush custom paint as well. Many guitarists are inspired by custom motorcycle paint jobs so they want to see some airbrush custom paint works done on their axes too. Read the rest of this entry »

My fellow guitarists, today I managed to get some cool and free guitar video tutorials for you from JamPlay.com. JamPlay is a good guitar resource with more than 300 hrs high quality videos from 33 guitar teachers. Note that the video you are watching below is much smaller than it’s original size. I had to resize it to fit into my blog page.

There are many ways to learn guitar and one of it is by joining an online guitar tutorial site like JamPlay. With the membership fee as low as $19.95 you can get unlimited access to the guitar lessons, name it metal, rock, blues, bluegrass, classical, fingerstyle, country, jazz, celtic and many more. Whatever your choice is you will be satisfied with the video and tutorial quality they offer. They even have guitar lessons for Christmas in case you are planning something to show off for the big day.

Should you plan to join the membership program please be aware that you can easily get distracted – like kids in a candy shop – there are so many high quality guitar tutorials available and if you don’t pay attention to your main focus you will be ‘lost’!

People want to learn to play guitar and I guess that’s why you’re reading this post now. There are some good resources to learn guitar. You can do it the old way like purchasing Mel Bay’s guitar books (heck, these books were the only source available when I started my journey as a guitar beginner: no CDs, no software to slow down the song playback, no free guitar tabs like OLGA, etc.) or you can do it digitally. I am not saying that guitar books are bad but I prefer seeing the REAL guitar instruction and HOW to do it. Learning guitar definitely needs visual guidance and examples which most of the books can’t provide. Now if you agree with me you can choose to find online guitar lessons – they are separated into FREE and Paid Membership sites, or you can buy guitar lessons DVD / VCD. Read the rest of this entry »

Hi Folks,

I just found a good guitar website that give you some guitar items for FREE (You read it right, no selling at all). There are 4 good quality items but I’ll write two only here:

1. Guitar Fretboard Trainer with chords and scale library
2. Ultimate Guitar Chord Book

The first one is a guitar software and the second one is a pdf e-book. If you are a beginner and having some difficulties understanding chords and scales these items may suit your need perfectly so go grab them while they are still available. To download your freebies please click here and hit the ‘View Our Free Downloads’ Button. That’s it!

Enjoy your free stuff and talk to you later!

-TJ-