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Hello everyone, it's nearly the new year! I actually can't wait to be honest. I am quite looking forward to seeing the back of this year. Anyway I hope you enjoyed yesterdays post, even though it was mainly about death. On todays post, I'm mainly going to be looking at the best riffs of the decade. A decade which flourished with guitar riffs, especially the first 5-6 years of the decade. This list is in no particular order. So to kick of this post here are some quality riffs! 1) The Strokes - Reptilia The Strokes burst onto the music[...]

A week or two ago I posted about my guitar motivation, or lack of it. Now although I have picked up my guitar since then, I still haven't picked it up enough. I mean, when people ask me what my hobbies are or anything like that, I do say "I play the Guitar." But the way things are going at the minute I am going to refrain from saying that to people as it's just not true. Anyway as I was looking on the internet for different motivational techniques, I came across one article that seemed to jump out at me. It was called Guitar Practice[...]

Alright people, how are you all? Hope you're all ok. Anywho back to the post. Recently I've been really trying to push myself back into the guitar. I remember when I was about 14 I couldn't put the guitar down. I would play every night without fail, scream away with distortion blaring. Anytime I had a free couple of minutes or a couple of hours I would pick up my acoustic and strum out some Oasis, Paul Weller or another great song. I would regularly listen to guitar based music and think "Wow! I wanna learn that!" My favourite shop used to[...]

Hello and welcome to my blog. Thanks for dropping by! Firstly let me introduce myself. I'm Ben. I'm 19. A student. But more importantly a Guitarist! This is my blog which is about anything to do with guitars. I am going to regularly update this blog with many different features each week, so be sure to keep checking back. Some of these features include; Guitarist biographies, chords of the week, band reviews, album reviews, riffs of the week, inspirational guitarists, guitarist of the week and many many more. Anyway I wanted to keep this[...]