Overview of Tele, Strat, and Les Paul tone controls and pickups, plus getting tones from an acoustic guitar.

An overview of how to use common effects pedals used in country music, and where to put them in your effects chain.

This tutorial explains how to get good tone from tube and solid state amps.

An overview of several more commonly used FX pedals.

This tutorial gives an overview of the tone controls- the knobs and pickup selection switch- on a Strat.

This is a standard riff I've used hundreds of times on recording sessions for new style country music. You can use this for various styles but, it's on the radio in several country songs.

This is a Drop D droning lick, perfect for the main riff of a southern rock swamp feel song. Or it could work as a breakdown lick before a solo. This is pure new country, cutting edge session style in Nashville today (it may change tomorrow, but this is what I get called for most of the time)

Getting the Rockabilly Sound The rockabilly sound is fairly easy to achieve with gear that will not break your wallet. The following gear suggestions will get you well on your way to sounding like Brian Setzer or Scotty Moore. The practice is up to you. Suggested Gear 1. Hollow body electric guitar with humbucker pickups                         -...

Following along in the same vein as the "Anatomy of a Multitrack" tutorial series, this one is yet another mutlitrack utilizing various loops, synths and guitars to come up with a "theme" soundtrack. Recording info: I started with several loops; put them on about 10 tracks and shuffled them around until something made sense. Added a bass synth using Absynth and backed it up with a second ...

This one has a fairly easy guitar part. Most of the work went into coming up with the drum and synth parts and the guitar was added mostly to fill in the blanks and add some "chunk". The guitar part is done using palm muting: laying your right hand palm across the strings to mute them as you play. Other than playing the notes, you need to add a rhythmic feel to your playing: chunking up and...