The truss rod is there to do one thing—to keep the neck of your guitar straight and stable, keeping your instrument in tune all the way up its well-aligned neck. It does this job well with ingenious simplicity and efficiency, constantly counteracting the tremendous physical forces that continually conspire to bend, warp and bow the neck, preventing proper intonation. If you've … [Read more...]
How To Adjust a Fender Vintage-Style Truss Rod
In this video, Billy Penn, of 300guitars.com, demonstrates how to adjust the truss rod on a Fender vintage-style neck where access to the truss rod is in the heel of the neck: I've been setting up my own guitars for years, and I learned a number of things from watching Billy's video. For example, I've never thought of using a capo to hold the strings in place, nor have I … [Read more...]
Review: Essential Fretboard from StevieSnacks.com
Anthony Stauffer of StevieSnacks.com has been providing free blues guitar lessons in the style of Stevie Ray Vaughan since 2007. He started out by providing free lessons on YouTube and later progressed to providing premium guitar lessons that cover a number of specific topics related to playing Texas-style electric blues. For example, his most recently released premium lesson … [Read more...]
Eric Johnson – On the Path
Eric Johnson is a newly featured artist in the iPad app On the Path, an app that provides lessons in various styles taught by some of the greatest players in world. In addition to Eric Johnson, you can watch lessons taught by ukulele master Jake Shimabukuro, Jackson Browne, Scott Tennant, and blues guitarist Kenny Sultan, among others. Johnson's contribution is a 68-minute … [Read more...]
PRS Experience 2010 David Grissom Master Class
At last year's PRS Experience event, David Grissom gave a 45-minute master class to members of the PRS Signature Club. Fortunately, an attendee recorded the event so that those of us that missed it can watch it. At the beginning of the video, he demonstrates how he's able to get a wide variety of sounds from his signature guitar and a single-channel PRS amp. Then, he begins … [Read more...]