Epiphone Les Paul Standard Guitar Review – Review of the Epiphone Les Paul Standard Electric Guitar

About.com has a review of an Epiphone Les Paul Standard and, no surprise, it does very well. I particularly liked the line “for 1/3 the price of a Gibson this is an extremely good value! It kicks all my Fenders’ asses!”
The reviewer makes a good point about choosing your guitar carefully, noting that while the [...]

Adding Videos of Strum Patterns | A Guitar Teachers Lesson Notebook

add videos of him demonstrating strum patterns and link them to the chord charts on his site. Getting the strum pattern right is something that can be difficult to do, and impossible if you only read a Tab or chord chart, rather than actually listen to the song you’re learning.

It’s a brilliant idea and one which will certainly help and inspire me to learn new material

Talking about strumming, so many of us focus on getting left hand (or right hand if your a lefty) that we don’t spend enough time practising strumming technique. Getting the strumming accurate and flawless can be the difference between nailing a song and sounding like someone who’s learned a few chords and picked up a guitar for the first time. It’s that important.

Epiphone Joe Pass Emperor II videos

It’s been way too long since I posted videos on here, so here are a couple featuring one of may favourite Epiphone guitars, the Joe Pass Emperor II. The Emperor II is a semi-hollow body electric guitar based on Epiphone’s Emperor guitar and named after late jazz legend, Joe Pass.
The Joe Pass Emperor II features [...]

paul weller and his casino

The Official Epiphone Weblog has a post linking to a video of Paul Weller playing his Epiphone Casino. It’s from the Weller at the BBC CD and DVD package released last year and shows Weller playing Changing Man on what looks like Jools Hollands Later… show. At a guess I’d say it was recorded sometime [...]