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Tuning is the act of adjusting string tension so that all open notes are in tune (sound the correct pitch). Intonation is the act of adjusting the bridge or saddles of a properly tuned guitar so that fretted notes also sound the correct pitches or frequencies. Tuning is a function of string tension. Intonation is a function of string geometry.

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Sure, technology has come a long way. Today’s amplifiers can put out a great sound at a reasonable price. But, if you want a really big sound at your next gig, try using a stereo setup. Sure, it costs a little more (or maybe a lot more) but the huge sound you get is worth the cost. 

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Besides the Beatles, and the British rock invasion, we can certainly be grateful to the British for one other thing—the full stack amplifier. Sure, Fender put a separate head on top of a speaker cabinet in 1960, but it wasn’t really until the British amp builders started building stacks that they really took off. Sure, there were many manufacturers: Vox, HiWatt and Laney. But the hands-down archetype for the full stack undoubtedly was, and still is today—the 100-watt Marshall Super Lead “Plexi” Head on a double stack of cabs—each with four Celestion Greenback 12-inch speakers. This was the amp that defined the full stack amplifier for all time.

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If you’ve ever picked up a guitar, you know that by placing your fingers at various places on the finger board, you can change the pitch or tone of the note. If you know how to play the guitar—even a little bit, you will know that you can find the exact same note on your guitar in several different locations. This is because there are three different ways to change pitch on the guitar (or any stringed instrument) and these three ways interact with each other to create musical tones on the guitar. The three ways are:

1. Change the length of the string
2. Change the thickness of the string
3. Change the tension on the string

Let us explore each of these mechanisms from a physics or mechanics point of view:

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We all know how to change notes on a guitar string. We place our fingers at specific and various places along the finger board known as “frets”. What fretting actually does is change the length of the string—no surprises here. But what are the mechanics behind using string length to change musical pitch?

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Michael Williams, Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music, shows us how to improve our playing through the use of a metronome in this 3:54 minute Berklee video. This video is for intermediate to advanced players to help become “tighter” players. Enjoy the video below…

We added yet another product to our guitar lesson recommendations on our site yesterday. Until now we have been reviewing and adding product so that we cover different musical genres.

Guitar Super Stars is the first product that we have endorsed that addresses multiple genres. It does this by using multiple guitar teachers – some of them Berklee trained.

The course is a web-based video course with a large selection of videos to choose from for those students of varying musical abilities and tastes.

We think Guitar Super Stars is a great addition to our growing list of recommended guitar lessons.

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We added another product to our website yesterday: Burning Metal: Heavy Metal Guitar Lessons.

With this e-book and audio-based course, you can read the tutorials, follow the tabs, jam with the tracks,and grasp a massively better understanding of what it takes to capture that particular sound and feel of metal guitar.

Burning Metal is stuffed full of tabs, tutorials and audio tracks to guide you through your learning experience.

We found this to be one of those very practical ”learn-by-example” courses. Good for beginner through advanced guitar players. 

Be sure to check out Burning Metal right NOW. You’ll be glad you did.

Just added a great new product, Guitar Scale Mastery to our website today.

We’ve got a link to it on our website, just go to the right sidebar and take a look in the LGQ Recommended Lessons box and click on Guitar Scale Mastery to take a look.

This package seems to be a very comprehensive learning system. It is just not a mish-mash of scales slapped together in randomly and offered for sale. A process is presented that can be used to learn any scale (and begin improvising with it) - including practicing routines and tips.

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