Guitar Advice & Inspiration
Are you in need of guitar advice, inspiration, or just a good kick in the pants? Here you’ll find topics that address the kinds of things we guitarists think (and worry) about.
How to Trade-In (or Sell) Your Guitar to a Music Store
12 Comments/by Guitar Answer GuyThis post contains affiliate links, meaning, if you click through and make a purchase, I may earn a commission. This is at no additional cost to you. Learn more. Last Updated: June 30, 2019 I just returned from a very successful outing where I traded-in an old Classical guitar to a local music store. I’m […]
How Do You Find Time to Play Guitar?
6 Comments/by Guitar Answer GuyFor a couple months straight, I’ve found myself with NO time to play guitar. Between my full-time job, this blog, and all of life’s other priorities I’ve found myself with zero time to pick up my axe, much less set down and get a proper practice session in. Kind of ironic in light of my […]
Guitar Practice: How to Beat Procrastination and Drudgery
11 Comments/by Guitar Answer GuyLast Updated: Nov 18, 2019 If you’ve been playing guitar for at least a few years, then you’ve undoubtedly had times where you’ve procrastinated rather than practiced. Now, I’m not talking about putting off guitar to do legitimate tasks like laundry, housework, feeding the kids, etc. I’m talking about doing crap like Facebook, video games, […]
Tonika – The “Worst Guitar Ever”
4 Comments/by Joel BennettIn the electric guitar’s short history, there is a single instrument that has earned the title of “the worst electric guitar in existence.”1 The Tonika was the very first solid-body electric guitar manufactured in the Soviet Union, and its legend has made it into a collector’s item for all the reasons we’d usually pass on an […]
Is the Future of Guitar… Minimalist?
4 Comments/by Joel BennettThis post contains affiliate links, meaning, if you click through and make a purchase, I may earn a commission. This is at no additional cost to you. Learn more. Being someone whose interest in guitars only began in the late 90s, I missed out on the ridiculous inventions that came out in the 70s and […]
Interview: Lauren Passarelli Answers YOUR Guitar Questions
0 Comments/by Guitar Answer GuyThis post contains affiliate links, meaning, if you click through and make a purchase, I may earn a commission. This is at no additional cost to you. Learn more. This week we’re joined by Lauren Passarelli, a guitar professor at the Berklee College of Music since 1984, JamPlay.com instructor, and author of two Kindle ebooks: […]