by AndyHillier | Aug 14, 2017 | Lesson, Pop
Learn how to play She’s On My Mind by JP Cooper on the guitar. Nice easy song to play with just Three chords through the whole song. It uses ||:Em7 Bm7 |Am7 :|| Hope you enjoy...
by AndyHillier | Aug 14, 2017 | Blog, Uncategorized
5 of the Best Beginner Amps. I though i would put together a list of guitar amps that i would recommend for beginners for their first buy. I have personally tried most of these amps, some of them on a regular basis. Amps start at around £40.00 but as with...
by AndyHillier | Aug 11, 2017 | Lesson, Pop
How to play Praying by Kesha Learn how to play the whole song on guitar. This is a nice easy song to play with just four chords. The lesson uses a capo on the 3rd fret to make it as simple as...
by AndyHillier | Aug 10, 2017 | Amps, Blog, Gear
I have been searching the web looking at UK build guitars and amps builders and came across Hamstead Amps. They are from Cambridgeshire in England and make high end handmade Guitar Amps. This is the Artist 20 RT 1×12 combo. I have had a listen to some youtube...
by AndyHillier | Aug 9, 2017 | Blog
This is me Improvising over a one chord Vamp. It’s just playing a B minor chord throughout the backing track in a funk rock feel. I use a variety of minor scales over the top. The Backing track is on the Backing Track...
by AndyHillier | Aug 7, 2017 | Blog, Gear
Today i was looking through the Laney website and came across this strange device. At first i wasn’t sure what is was but after a little reading and watching a few youtube videos i have found out it is a guitar tube preamp, a USB audio interface, distortion box,...
by AndyHillier | Aug 5, 2017 | Blog, Gear, Guitars
I have long been a fan of PRS guitars. I can still remember when i was studying at the Guitar institute in London back in th 90’s going to Chadlers Guitars and trying out a beautiful PRS mcarty model. It blew me away. It was by far the best guitar i had ever...
by AndyHillier | Aug 4, 2017 | Amps, Blog, Gear
I have long been a fan of Mesa Boogie Amps. I have had two of them. My First mesa was an original Duel Rectifier Head that i should never have gotten rid of. That amp was amazing, beautiful cleans with fierce distortion and crazy amountsof headroom. My second wasa 50w...
by AndyHillier | Aug 3, 2017 | Blog, Gear, Guitars
How about this for a good looking guitar. It’s called the Kenai which is the shape and it is by Knaggs guitars. This one features an amazing spalt top that looks amazing gold hardware and morningstar dots. You can specify loads of different options and they...
by AndyHillier | Aug 2, 2017 | Lesson, Pop
I was looking through the latest releases on youtube and came across this great tune from Ne-Yo. It’s really funky and has got some cool guitar playing all over it. It is based around Am but in the key of G major which make the Am the second chord. it uses the...