When I started learning guitar 25 years ago I had a lot of questions in my mind, some of them that I can remember are:

- How to tell that my strings are in tune? There was no digital tuner by that time.
- How can other people change chords smoothly?
- Why can they find chords in a song easily?
- What makes them improvise easily?
- How long will it take to master my guitar?

Today I see that technology really ease up most of my past problems. To tune a guitar for example a newbie now can rely on the electronic guitar tuner. This device really means a lot because it give a high level of confidence to the beginning guitarists. Some electric-acoustic guitars now come with built in strings tuner, the same device you may also find on some type of guitar amplifiers. Technology makes it easy. Read the rest of this entry »