That's a beautiful guitar - and I too love P90 pickups. But there really is no way I know of to tell if you are going to get feedback or not without t...

Funny. I worked on a cruise ship in the 1980s and we would pull into San Juan, Puerto Rico once a week. The musicians I met there read standard notati...

It's hard to add anything after those to very excellent NoteBoat posts, but there is one point I feel I must add.Standard notation is the 'lingua fran...

I'd use an audio to USB interface and go that way.I use some very old Edirol UA20 interfaces, I don't know if they are still being made, but if not I'...

I'd suggest that you also stretch out into various different genres of music, country, rock, blues, jazz, salsa, klezmer, soca, or whatever. The more ...

I'm not a guitar teacher, and therefore might be way off base here.Have you tried Barre chords instead? I'm one of those people who get along better w...

I like D'Addario strings for a couple of reasons:They sound goodMinimal packaging 100% recyclable (good for the environment)The packaging is moisture ...

I can see an incorrectly wound string giving you an intonation problem by binding were it shouldn't in the string path, perhaps even a buzz depending ...

Grammys awards are more political than musical. The best songs don't get awards, like the Oscars and so many others, the show is nothing more than an ...

I've often wondered the same thing.A Pelham is a horse bit - but I doubt that has anything to do with it.There are a few towns called Pelham, notably ...

Congratulations!Good luck with the biz - I hope you have an endless supply of students.I owe much of my happy life to my first music teacher. Notes

I had a chromatic tuner that had an adjustable frequency, it defaulted at A=442 but was simple to change to A=440 - so that might be something to watc...

You see, that's why tone is not so important. I dislike Coltrane's tone and prefer that of Getz, Prez, and other players.So if I have perfect tone for...

Wherever you go and whatever you do there will always be somebody better than youBut if you think that fact is a curse, look around there'...

Nice looking guitar - congrats on the guitar and an understanding wife!!!