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Jon Clemence
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Mar 29

Guitarists: The One Thing You Can Do As Well As Tommy Emmanuel

Tommy Emmanuel is a guitar icon. If you’ve heard him play, I don’t need to explain. If you haven’t, take some time to watch the above video. (Of course, Mike Dawes is equally amazing, although he has several decades of catching up to do.) But as I was watching…

Guitar

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Guitarists: The One Thing You Can Do As Well As Tommy Emmanuel
Guitarists: The One Thing You Can Do As Well As Tommy Emmanuel
Guitar

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Mar 24

Want to Become a Better Musician? Stop Playing and Do This Instead

When I was a kid, the adults in my life often said, “God gave you two ears and one mouth so that you would listen twice as much as you speak.” As a society, many of us seem to have forgotten that message. Much public discourse, to our detriment and…

Music

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Want to Become a Better Musician? Stop Playing and Do This Instead
Want to Become a Better Musician? Stop Playing and Do This Instead
Music

6 min read


Mar 15

How to Choose the Best Guitar for Your Needs and Budget

In many ways, we are living in guitar heaven today. There are countless brands and styles of guitars, almost all of which you can purchase with the click of a button. And these guitars come in all shapes, sizes, and, importantly, prices. In one sense, this is great: you can…

Guitar

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How to Choose the Best Guitar for Your Needs and Budget
How to Choose the Best Guitar for Your Needs and Budget
Guitar

6 min read


Feb 25

Five Things You Can Do to Improve Your Inexpensive Guitar without Breaking the Bank

When I was just getting started on the guitar back in the 1990s, cheap guitars were just that — cheap. One of my first guitars was a Squier Stratocaster, and it was not a good guitar. …

Electric Guitar

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Five Things You Can Do to Improve Your Inexpensive Guitar without Breaking the Bank
Five Things You Can Do to Improve Your Inexpensive Guitar without Breaking the Bank
Electric Guitar

5 min read


Feb 20

Why I’ll Never Go Back to the Corporate World

I occasionally take a break from my normal guitar-related content to share pieces of my story. This article details my experience leaving the corporate world. I hope it helps those of you who are on a similar journey. -Jon On the morning of January 15, 2021, I drove into my…

Careers

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Why I’ll Never Go Back to the Corporate World
Why I’ll Never Go Back to the Corporate World
Careers

7 min read


Feb 7

That Time I Spent Entirely Too Much Time and Money Building a Crappy Guitar

I built a guitar from scratch once. It was terrible. The Backstory We were replacing our old dining room table, and I noticed that it was just about half the thickness of an electric guitar. I realized I could probably cut two blanks out of it, glue them together, and have a…

Electric Guitar

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That Time I Spent Entirely Too Much Time and Money Building a Crappy Guitar
That Time I Spent Entirely Too Much Time and Money Building a Crappy Guitar
Electric Guitar

6 min read


Jan 14

What Is Fingerboard Radius and Why Should You Care?

If you’ve ever shopped online for a new guitar, you may have come across a piece of information that you didn’t quite understand. Sites like Sweetwater are great in that they will tell you the exact specifications for any guitar in stock — sometimes down to the exact weight of…

Guitar

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What Is Fingerboard Radius and Why Should You Care?
What Is Fingerboard Radius and Why Should You Care?
Guitar

4 min read


Jan 5

Answering the Question, “Do Tonewoods Affect Electric Guitars?”

To (mis)quote Ron Burgundy, “It’s kind of a big deal.” If you haven’t come across this, yet, don’t worry — you will. And if you have, you probably have the scars to prove it. It’s perhaps the biggest, most heated debate of them all when it comes to electric guitars…

Electric Guitar

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Answering the Question, “Do Tonewoods Affect Electric Guitars?”
Answering the Question, “Do Tonewoods Affect Electric Guitars?”
Electric Guitar

5 min read


Dec 16, 2022

Five Purchases I Made in 2022 That Made Me a Better Person — and Can Make You One Too

Among the driving forces in my life are incessant goal-setting and the pursuit of personal growth. For whatever reason, I am the type of guy who is constantly trying to better himself. …

Growth

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Five Purchases I Made in 2022 That Made Me a Better Person — and Can Make You One Too
Five Purchases I Made in 2022 That Made Me a Better Person — and Can Make You One Too
Growth

7 min read


Nov 25, 2022

My Black Friday For Once Doesn’t Include Guitar Shopping

It’s kind of funny, but for the first time in a long time, I don’t have GAS. That’s guitar acquisition syndrome, for the uninitiated. For years, my standard M.O. has been to become fixated on some guitar or piece of gear I don’t already own, convince myself why I need…

Black Friday

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My Black Friday For Once Doesn’t Include Guitar Shopping
My Black Friday For Once Doesn’t Include Guitar Shopping
Black Friday

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