Category: Instruments

When you are gunning to buy the cheapest available option on the market, you might find yourself wondering if there is such a thing as a good option. While it certainly might be true that you will not be able to buy the best guitar on the market for under 100, you might just find something useful, especially for a beginner. The Rogue RA-090 Dreadnought Acoustic guitar earns its name well, for it feels like you might as well be stealing a guitar for the price it is being sold at. While it is not a great guitar, it is definitely reasonable for the price. Let’s take a closer look. Body Quality Let us talk about the shape of the

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There are dozens and dozens of folk instruments in the world. Some of them are still popular while others have fallen into the oblivion and are just seen in the museums. Instruments like ukulele and harmonica have gained more popularity during the past decades but finding someone who plays accordion is like looking for a needle in the straw. And there is a reason for that, an accordion, even though it is an amazing instrument, is one of the hardest devices to master. You have to practice years and years to achieve anything, while with an ukulele you can learn an easy tune in one day (well, it’ probably won’t be a masterpiece, but still). In either case, folk instruments

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On this website, we have compiled a guide for buying used guitars, guide to used ukuleles and much more. Now comes a time to do a guide to buying used pianos and I postponed this guide for quite some time because often times pianos cost so much more, even in used sections than any other instruments so if you have bad luck or do not research well enough and end up with a bad piano the loses are going to be that much more than with any other product. You should DEFINITELY tread lightly and take twice as much time with used pianos as with new pianos. That is why I have compiled here a more or less comprehensive list

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When someone is buying a new guitar, especially for the first time, the task might seem, and actually is, quite daunting. You have to be aware of so many details and specifications, you have to learn what you should be looking for and then sieve through dozens and dozens of models, weight out price vs. quality ratio and decide on the best guitar for you. That is a very general and simplified version of the new guitar buying process. BUT buying a USED guitar takes twice as much research and time. That is if you want to buy a used guitar that will last you for a long time and will not come with hidden problems that you will realize

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The world of music is vast and sometimes terrifying. You obsess over one instrument, learn how to play it, do more research and then find a new instrument you had no idea existed. You decide you want to “branch out” and learn to play that instrument. In the process of researching that instrument, you find another one and so on and so forth. You get the gist, there are too many instruments and too little time. When I first got into music I did not venture too far and settled on a more regular choice of an instrument – a guitar. Then I realized I was really into ukuleles, started researching how much I would have to save on my

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So you have finally decided to graduate from playing music from your spotify account for your friends to being an actual DJ? Good! Now is the time to actually get to know how to be an actual musician, spin records and write your own music. Exciting stuff, really. Except you don’t know where to start. Worry not because I too was in the same predicament about a year ago. After extensive research and consultation with my DJ friends I realized that this endeavor might be on the a little too expensive side for me. Still I persisted in my desire to turntables and intruded on my friends’ sessions. I would visit, learn from them and use their setups to practice.

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Let’s get real. What is the most hardcore instrument out there? If you guessed guitar, you need to rethink your priorities. The drumset is the correct answer to this. Why? Because it takes more than the occasional finger bleed to play the drums. The entire body needs to be in constant motion. Your feet, arms, hands and most importantly – head. You need to headbang, otherwise you are a bad drummer. It is just tradition. So if you started rethinking your priorities right now, this blog post may be for you. If you decided to keep your priorities the way they are, I would like you to look at the picture below  and despair, because you know – she is

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Everybody who has been playing guitars or knows anything about it will tell you that there is so much more to a guitar than just a guitar. And I am not talking about talent and will to succeed and all those feel-good stuff. I mean literal things you need. And YES, this might not be as inspiring of a post as “All you need to become the next Jimi Hendrix is sheer will power”, I think this one is more practical and will get you closer to your goal than that BS (excuse my abbreviated French). So, let’s talk business. When you get your guitar you might feel like you have done the job, researched your stuff and now you

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When you feel the rhythm of a song driving you, making you dance faster or run faster, it is usually not the lead guitar that causes this. Neither it is the drum set, surprising as it may seem. The true culprit for your feet going a certain speed is the bass guitar. The tones, thick as honey, that cover your brain and make you move to the music without you ever realizing. The bass guitar is the reason why music has so much dimension. So when someone tells me they don’t understand the point of a bass guitar, I know for a fact they don’t really understand music. If you are one of these people then this short post is

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So you want to be the next Tommy Emmanuel. Or maybe someone you have been looking up to for a while. You can already imagine yourself in front of hundreds of fans that have camped out for days just to hear you perform live and take in your genius as they sob to your melodies. There is just one big problem: You have close to no knowledge of guitars. And I am not talking about playing, I mean literally have no idea how a guitar works, how the sound is created or anything about the structure of a guitar. That is how anyone starts so trust me you are not the only one. Eric Clapton at some point in his

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How long have you been imagining your fingers running up and down steel strings, flashing at the speed of lightning, as thunder escapes your amp? How many times have you picked up your air guitar and started headbanging to the music you knew you wanted to be performing? Don’t tell me you have never woken from a dream of holding a concert at a stadium in front of thousands of people. We all know it is a lie. We all know that each person has a secret desire to be the rockstar that rocks the world to its very foundation. What I am saying is that everybody wants to be Dave Grohl. Well, not everybody can. Only if you understand

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