A skunk stripe is a dark strip of wood on the back of a guitar neck used to cover routing for a truss rod. When an unpainted neck is made of a light-colored woo...
Tremolo effects modify volume. The amplitude of an incoming signal is raised and lowered in pulsating waves. An intense tremolo effect sounds choppy bec...
Maloof has contributed to TrueFire lessons both on camera and as a producer. Formerly the Editor In Chief of Guitar magazine, Rich has written The Way They Play, Alternate Tunings for Guitar, Joe Satriani: Riff By Riff, the biography of amp legend Jim Marshall. He is the founding editor of the student magazine InTune and has edited for Billboard, Hal Leonard Publishing, BackBeat Books, For Dummies, GuitarOne, Guitar
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