The Guitar Players Club

You can learn to play melodies on your guitar even if you do not know sheet music notation. We will instead use easy to learn guitar tab or guitar tablature. Let's learn Yankee Doodle!

Yankee Doodle "Yankee Doodle" is a well-known American song, today sung patriotically. Originally it was a satirical song.

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There are a few different types of guitar amplifiers that are available for you to choose from. If you're looking for a new amp, you need to first decide what role the amp will need to fill.

The first type of amps that came along were vacuum tube amplifiers. Although the technology of tube amps is fairly old, this style of amp is still very popular with most players. The reason for their popularity is that the tone of these amps is usually very warm and natural compared to the other types or more modern amplifiers. Not only do they sound better, they are usually louder than amps of other types at the same power level. Also, most newer, solid-state amps normally don't require regular maintenance, but tube amps do require new vacuum tubes occasionally. Also, it's beneficial to have a matched set of tubes in the amplifier.

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John Mayer and Eric Clapton, two great musicians perform a classic song.

Clapton does jazz.

cheeeee!