The Guitar Players Club

If you're a Brian Wilson fan, and I'm betting if you play guitar, listen to rock and roll, and/or over 40, you are, then you would probably love to have this guitar. It's a Brian Wilson model being released by Hutchins Guitars.

Some of the Features are:

• Rosewood Fretboard
• Bolt On Neck Attachment
• Mother of Peal Dot Inlays
• Premium Basswood Body
• 1 11/16" Nut Width
• 3-Way Blade Switch
• Fixed Bridge
• 1 Volume, 1 Tone Control
• 24 3/4" Scale
• 21 Medium Frets
• British Tweed Signature Hardshell Case

This is an awesome teardrop replica of the Vox instrument that Brian played in the Rolling Stones. Now the bad news, it's on it's way to the United States, but there's only 37 being sent. Just as bad...there's only 250 being built.

With an authentic Brian Jones signature on the pickguard and headstock, this guitar is destined to become a major collectors item.

The guitar retails for $1,200, comes with the hardshell case and is available in a vintage white finish. It's looks as though most of us will be out of luck on this however. Unless you're very quick to act, know someone in the Music biz or are ready to pay above (possibly WAY above) retail

If you're like me you've got a special feeling for the Blues. After all, if it weren't for the Blues we wouldn't even have Rock and Roll in the first place.

Well, if you've always wanted to learn how to play awesome Blues guitar, I've found the perfect method to teach you. You talk about some great information...this is it!!

I'm not even going to attempt to list all that this course has to offer because I'd be here typing all night. Just to get an idea...there's rhythm lessons, turnarounds, chords, jam tracks, tons of video, lifetime updates, scales, chord substitutions, harmony lines, using harmonics,  the list goes on and on.

When I say this program is complete, I mean COMPLETE!! There's virtually everything here that you could ever possibly want to know about playing Blues guitar.

Learn to play like Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughn, BB King, Buddy Guy, Billy Gibbons, Albert King, Robert Cray ,and so many more of the fantastic guitarists that made the Blues guitar what it is today. Even modern day rock guitarists from bands like AC/DC, Lenny Kravitz, Kiss, The Black Crowes, and others use this approach to their leads.

I can promise you that I'd NEVER recommend this product on MY site, if I thought for a minute that you wouldn't be totally satisfied with it. I guess it doesn't really matter though, because there's a full 100% money back guarantee. If you're not happy with your purchase FOR ANY REASON, you get your money back...it's as simple as that.

So click here to have a look at what I'm talking about. You'll be sold just from the FREE preview and mini-course, but there's also a video preview and much more information that I can provide here.

Just the extras are worth far more than the entire package cost.

If you've always wanted to play killer blues guitar, but never really got to where you wanted to be in your playing, PLEASE check this out. You owe it to yourself...and your future fans.

In case you haven't heard, there's going to be a guitar being auctioned off on Oct. 15, 2008 that is probably going to be one of the best collector's piece ever. The Stratocaster will be signed by David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Nick Mason and Richard Wright. After the recent death of Richard Wright, I can only assume that the winning bid will be rather lofty.

Any hard core rock and roll fans, and especially Pink Floyd lovers will be dreaming of owning this guitar.

Mind you, the guitar itself is only a Mexican-made Strat, but obviously the autographs will drive the price up.

Also,  the guitar's finish has been designed by UK artist Gerald Scarfe, whom worked with the band on The Wall...both the album, and the movie. I'm sure this will only increase the bids. The guitar is being auctioned to benefit homelessness charity Crisis. You can go here to register at the 'BuyOnceGiveTwice.com' Website, and bid on the guitar. Just make sure you've got a fat bank account before you entertain thoughts of this jewel hanging on your wall.

The winning bidder will also receive a Scarfe On The Wall Limited Edition Box Set. This comprises eight prints signed by Gerald Scarfe and an in-depth interview regarding the time when he created the illustrations for The Wall and the accompanying film.

Roger Waters has signed the accompanying "monograph" book which includes many early concept drawings for The Wall and a new interview with Scarfe. The monograph is accompanied by eight 16" by 20" prints of Scarfe's famed illustrations for The Wall, which includes three unseen works.

The box set is also available to buy, in a limited run 300 pieces. I'm sure the box set will also prove to be a great investment, being offered in such a limited run.

Underground Method of Learning the Guitar Fret Board!

Underground Method of Learning the Guitar Fret Board!
By Samuel Malama

Many have come and gone, they have seen and conquered; yet there is one thing they have failed to achieve-knowledge of the guitar fret board (found on the top of the neck with metal bars across it)! Unfortunately whether you believe it or not, knowing your frets is the key to success.

Many guitar players always find it difficult to do so. One would think rocket science is a walk in the park just by the way they go about it. Frets are exactly that, frets! There is no need to fear them. After all, if one has no knowledge whatsoever, how do they expect to play chords?

Yes, you heard right, chords…one of the most petrifying words in guitarville. Frets and chords go hand in hand, if guitar is your thing, better learn or die a slow death. There are different suggested ways of gaining better knowledge of frets, the highly proclaimed being mentally.

MENTALLY

This employs the method of learning away from your guitar. You can learn a fret at a time (in your mind), memory cards or games, mnemonics. They all work; you just need to find which one is the easiest for you. Let us look at all these in detail starting with the mind method.

Learning With Your Mind

The mind is capable of a great many things; humans underestimate it way too much. The best way to go about this technique is to take each fret at a time. Make sure to know all the six notes (if using a six string guitar) on the fret by heart before moving on to the next. Keep doing this 'till you are done.

Memory Cards

This is a great way of going about it; you can even get someone else to hold up a different card each time. Each card has the number of a fret, for example the number three. When you get this card you have to say out the notes G C F A# D G respectively. It goes on like this until you get all of them.

By the way, you don't have to go and buy these cards; you can simply make some at home. No need to spend unnecessary money. (After all, we have too much to worry about with the high gas prices).

Mnemonics

Mnemonics are a sure fire way of learning to some degree. Mnemonics are simply assigning words to correspond with the various letters. An example of this would be the positions of the planets; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.

This would become; My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nice Potatoes, get the point? You can assign each note with any word that you can remember.

What Next?

What next is that you go out and put what you have just learned into action. Knowing your frets will take time, but it is very doable. Don't be afraid of it, it is just the fret board and nothing else.

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Investing in Vintage Electric Guitars
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Lowry_Gibson]Lowry Gibson

In the current world of investing for the future, one sure way to beat inflation and devaluation of the bond market is to put your money in vintage electric guitars. The demand for original flying v or Paul McCartney left handed guitars continues to rise in spite of recessions.

Especially in demand are vintage Gibson hollow-body, Fender's vintage sunburst Stratocaster and vintage Fender guitar amplifiers. Nostalgia for early rock is only one reason for the high valuation of vintage guitars and accompanying guitar equipment. The main reason demand is so high for vintage guitars is the sound they produce is as unique as the instrument itself.

Decades ago, when vintage guitars were new, the technology to produce them was in its early stages and many of the electric pick-ups had to be hand-wound or if they were machine made, each was just a little different. A few less strands of wire in the pick-ups caused a little different sound. The bodies were not completely uniform either, making the sound-box on each just a little different from the next guitar being made. As a result, each guitar was just a little unique. Additionally, over time, the electronics degraded a little causing even more difference and variation from instrument to instrument.

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