Seems like the problem is probably a dirty or bad potentiometer. You can buy an electronics contact cleaner and try to clean it. However, sometimes th...

It's basically just distortion with a little bit of chorus and reverb. As far as E.Q goes, it's probably a scooped sound (full treble and bass, mid tu...

Do you always use the same patch cord to hook up the guitar to the amp? If you have another cord try using it and seeing if the problem is the cord an...

Thanks for the replies. I just figured out a big reason I was having problems: the chair I was using was too tall (according to this article: :D )....

That's funny, the exact same thing happened to me! I was taking guitar lessons from a gentlemen who taught from his house. One day I show up and the d...

I use powertabs, first you have to download the powertab editor:and then you download individual tab files from a website like this:they have puddle o...

I always thought his hat gave him his magical abilities, like Frosty the Snowman.

You should be able to record vocals and guitar at the same time and on separate tracks. The only problem you might have is with latency (a small delay...

If I was in your situation and asked to join a band that plays a style that I'm not really a fan of, I think I would tell them that while I don't play...

OK, so key of D means that I can play a D Maj Pent, D Maj, D min, D min pent, B min and B min pent scales? Not exactly. It's really the chords that a...

Yup, it works. Bm pentatonic contains the same notes as the D major pentatonic scale. The song is in a D blues key and a big part of blues music is co...

Now I'm not an expert soloist by any means, but I would imagine a good way to get better would be to study solos that you like. There's no one way to ...

For The Love Of God, Bad Horsie and Tender Surrender are really great Vai songs. Sisters is a good composition as well. Joe Satriani is another guy wh...

I have a nice collection of distortion pedals: DS-1, a Behringer Tube screamer, Boss Metal Zone along with a few clone pedals I built myself (a Marsha...