Which Guitar Is Right For You? Have you ever been to a music store wanting to buy a guitar, but not sure of which one to pick? Ever felt that the guitars you own sound or look out of place? I'm writing this blog to guide you guitar players in choosing the right guitar for you. The Pickup War Top: Single-Coil Pickups; Bottom: Humbucker Pickups In an electric guitar, a major part of the sound differences between each instrument is the pickups wired to them. Pickups pick up - hence the name - the string vibration and sends an electronic signal into the output, projecting sound; think of it as a microphone for your guitar strings. There are two major types of pickups: single-coil pickups and humbucking pickups, or simply humbuckers. They differ in the way that they are wired, with single coil having one magnetic coils inside and humbuckers having two magnetic coils inside. These wiring differences contribute to their tone, producing differe...
Yes, I've Fallen in Love! Now the title is not what you think it might be. I'm still young and it's way out of my time to find a significant other, but I've fallen in love: with the guitar. People ask me all the time, "Why the guitar?" "Why didn't you choose other instruments like the piano?" I've tried piano once; I took lessons in a music school, but I did not really enjoy the lessons, neither the instruments; piano was not "cool" enough for me ( no hate to all the piano players out there. ) I really wanted to play music, but I did not know what to take. I always loved the electric guitar since a child; I loved watching people rip melodic and "rock n' roll" guitar solos on stage, with the headbangs and all, but I figured it would be too hard if I tried. Then I reached 7th Grade; I was 13 years old. During one of our teacher introductions, it was the turn of our music teacher. The teacher pu...