How to play slide guitar in Standard Tuning | Learning Guitar Now

I love slide guitar, particularly blues slide. And some of my favourite players played slide, from Elmore James and Muddy Waters, to Duane Allman and Bonnie Raitt. I have to confess, though, I’ve never mastered bottleneck slide, and I’ve only ever tried it using open tunings. In this lessson, however, John Tuggles demonstrates How to [...]

Guitar recording tips from the pros

Music Radar has28 more guitar recording tips from the pros which give a fantastic insight into the way professional guitar players capture their riffs and solos. From Bryan Borcherds’ Guitar Rig tips to Rusty Cooleys’ description of how he mics his amps, they’re worth a read.

Total Guitar

Total Guitar has news of a concert on 1 August, the anniversary of the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh, to honour George Harrison. The concert will take place at At George’s Hall in Liverpool and run alongside an exhibition which is described as the largest collection of George Harrison memorabilia. The exhibition will run until 18 [...]

Video Guitar Lesson: Joe Bonamassa

Guitar Lifestyle picked up on Guitar Center’s posting of a number of videos from Joe Bonamassa’s recent instore guitar clinic.
In the clip below, Joe discusses his slide technique and how corny eighties movie Crossroads, and specifically the Ry Cooder soundtrack piqued his interest in slide guitar. Watch as Joe discusses his slide technique:

(Via Guitar Lifestyle.)

The ugliest Epiphone Casino ever? Or the prettiest? You decide

Have a look at the painted Casino on GuitarSite and see what you think. Me? Well, let’s just say that I think the fact that the artist felt the need to enhance its auction value by having The Allman Brother Band autograph it says that she wasn’t to confident about it. And I can see [...]

Epiphone Casino Ltd Edition with Bigsby

The Epiphone Casino Ltd Edition with Bigsby is a special custom version of this ubiquitous Epi. It was launched at Namm in early 2006 and shipped throughout that year. If you’re quick, and very lucky, you’ll still be able to pick one up from a dealer. If not, you’ll have to resort to second hand [...]

Django’s Epiphone

This is a fascinating article on Django Reinhardt’s 1946 Epiphone Zephyr and has some great pictures.
Django’s Epiphone.
Via: paulvernonchester.com

Fantastic Blues Guitar Solo Lesson

This lesson on how to play a blues guitar solo comes form Dan Denley, author of several courses of guitar lessons. Dan’s a great teacher and communicator and makes it easy to play along with him. You can find out more about his Blues Guitar Secrets course here.

Johnny Marr’s 1963 Epiphone Casino

There’s a great pic of Johnny Marr’s 1963 Epiphone Casino here. In the text underneath, Marr notes that he played part of How Soon is Now on the Casino (with Bigsby tremolo fitted) and that he wrote Nowhere Fast on it. Marr also played the Casino at Glastonbury in 1984 and was pictured with it [...]

Epiphone Wildkat review

This Squidoo lens has an excellent, in-depth review of the Epiphone Wildkat.