fender.coms forums closure notice
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Fender.com Forums R.I.P.

Last week, Fender.com made a forums closure announcement. This came as another sign of the trends that old school forums are taking to the side of the road to make way for more image and video-based content. Unfortunately, the March 30, 2020 news didn’t provide a redirect, but rather nonchalant 🎸

Black Friday Gift Ideas
Gear

Black Friday Gifts for Guitar Players

Black Friday Guitar Stuff It’s never too late for Black Friday nor too early for Christmas ideas for your fave guitar player.  Thanksgiving is about getting ahead of your game for early Christmas stocking stuffers! Ernie Ball Slinky Nickel Wound Sets Your guitar boyfriend will never say no to guitar 🎸

Fishman Neo-D
Gear

Fishman Neo-D Single Coil Acoustic Pickup

What is it? The Fishman Neo-D is a low-cost passive single-coil soundhole pickup for acoustic guitar.  In this category, the Fishman outperforms most other pickups.  After all, doesn’t Neo-D sound like a character out of The Matrix? The pickup comes smartly wrapped in a clear polyurethane package. From the package:  🎸

How to Relic a Guitar
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How to Relic a Guitar

Why do we have this fascination with vintage guitars? Different people will give you different answers, but we can all agree that the sound, the look, the feel, the history is what attract us to vintage guitars. Let’s be realistic, how many people have $5,000 to $50,000 to buy an 🎸

hot for teacher
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The Importance of Guitar Lessons

How My First Guitar Lessons Greatly Shaped My Playing Today I remember my first guitar lessons.  We learned “baby chords” like G, D, D7, A, Em, C, F – then B7, Am, Bm. This is what my teacher taught us.  I had a one hour lesson per week and I 🎸