This Week in Guitar is a weekly roundup of guitar-related news. I generally try to find the lesser known stories and not what’s written about in the major guitar publications.
A really wacky week this week. Probably the wackiest so far. Search Google Tuner in Google for their new guitar tuner I don’t know how well it works (I use DuckDuckGo.com and ads stopped following me everywhere; I love it), but this is cool none-the-less. 16 Million New Guitars Players! This is pretty incredible. In […]
Lots of personal news this week. I recorded parts of videos for 3 guitars: the Orangewood Morgan Spruce Live, the Glarry GTL “Fender Telecaster style”, and the Firefly FFLG “Gibson SG style” guitars. I still have to record sound samples for all of them, but the pre-setup and post-setup pieces have been filmed. (Spoiler: None
This Week in Guitar #9 – triads and carbon fiber Read More ยป
Lots of cool stuff this week including a new segment. Video of the week! If you’re anything like me you probably watch a lot of guitar YouTube. I’m gonna do my best to choose one great guitar-related video from here on out. Video of the Week: Allen Van Wert’s pinch harmonics lesson Wallace Detroit Guitars
Back in the saddle again for TWiG #7. New aluminum-bodied guitar company, Instrumental Aluminum Instrumental Aluminum is launching on Kickstarter soon. It’s not the first guitar company using aluminum, but I’m a fan of entrepreneurs trying things like this. Apparently this is the world’s first vacuum die-cast hybrid electric guitar, although I have no idea
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As mentioned last week, I’m a day late on this week’s TWiG. (We were camping in Yellowstone!) Lots of fun links to catch up on … The story behind Jason Isbell’s custom Tele Jason Isbell is one of my favorites and Southeastern is one of the best collections of songs ever compiled in a single
Back at it again for another roundup of random guitar-related news. A guitar is not a weapon, but it can be I don’t have anything smart to say here, but this popped up in my feed and I’ll leave it at that. “I collect guitar riffs” – Brian Setzer Although I’m more of an old
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More guitar-related randomness … Doing the impossible. A 100% Full Combo score in Guitar Hero 2. I know I know I know Guitar Hero is not guitar (I’m terrible at Guitar Hero), but this is fun anyway. This dude could surely be a shredder on a real guitar if he isn’t already. The comments on
Another varied week in guitar-related news. Let’s get right to it … Basses made from old oil drums and other unique materials Caul Bluhm makes some very unique instruments and, as an owner of some unique instruments (cigar box guitar; 2×4 lap steel), I dig it. You can watch some of his process on his
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I found a lot of varied stories this week. So varied that if next week tops this week’s randomness I’ll be surprised. Jimmy Page owned Strat on auction. Starting bid? $60k Estimated to sell for over $100k, but nobody has bid yet. Value of the guitar according to the auctioneers? $15k. As for this one?
Welcome to the Art of Shred’s first TWiG. We’ll see how this works over time and it might not always be weekly if there isn’t a lot of guitar news, but in general I’ll share a handful of interesting guitar-related stories or videos that you might not have seen if you only read Guitar World.
