Aaron Asghari
Professional Guitarist & Instructor
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Co-authored Articles (29)
How to Restring Your Guitar at Home: Step-by-Step Guide
Learn how to smoothly remove and replace your guitar strings like a pro Changing your guitar strings at least once a month will keep your instrument sounding its best. No need to take it back to the guitar shop to get th...
How to
Play Guitar Chords
Learning to play guitar is loads of fun, though playing chords may seem a little intimidating at first. Fear not, it is not much different than playing single notes: you're just playing them all at once! This article wil...
How to
Connect a Guitar Pedal
Guitar pedals produce a variety of different sounds and effects that can help you sound like a real rockstar — as long as you set them up correctly! Whether you're just getting started with a single pedal or chaining s...
How to
Adjust the Action on a Guitar
A simple guide to setting the optimal action On a guitar or bass, the ''action'' is the height of your strings over the fretboard. If a guitar's action is too high, the strings will be hard for you to press down and ma...
How to
Fix a Warped Guitar Neck
A warped guitar neck can make your guitar notes out of tune in some positions and may even create buzzing or muddy quality in the tone your guitar produces. This may have been caused by heat, humidity, time and the natur...
How to
Make a Guitar Pickup
A comprehensive guide to making a homemade guitar pickup Guitar pickups are essential to all electric guitars, but the quality of your pickup affects the sound your guitar makes. Pickups are relatively easy to make out o...
How to
Dress Frets
If you play your guitar frequently, the frets can become worn down over time. Frets wear unevenly due to the location of the strings, which can affect the playability of the instrument. When you dress frets, you smooth t...
How to
Set Your Guitar's Intonation
Sometimes your guitar will be out of tune even after you tune it, which means your intonation is out. You can tell when your intonation is out if an open string harmonic at the 12th fret (lightly touch string at the 12th...
How to
Connect an Electric Guitar to a Combo Amp
Playing the electric guitar is a fulfilling hobby that requires time, patience, and dedication to master. Amplifiers are the piece of equipment that allows you to make sound with your electric guitar. While many traditio...
The Best Ways to Personalize Your Acoustic or Electric Guitar
Decorate your instrument with decals, strings, inlays, & moreIs your guitar sitting in the corner of your room, collecting dust? You'd be shocked by what a fresh look can do to draw your eyes back to your instrument. Fro...
How to
Make an Electric Guitar
If you’re a guitar lover, you might be out for a unique look as well as your own sound. You might also be interested to learn more about how guitars are put together and function. If you have moderate woodworking skill...
How to
Put a Guitar Strap on a Classical Guitar
Most classical guitars don't have pegs for a strap like electric and acoustic guitars do because they're not designed to be played standing up. However, if you prefer to play your classical guitar standing, you'll benefi...
How to
Play Guitar with Long Nails
The guitar is a fun instrument that you can play in many different ways. If you are learning how to play the guitar and you want to keep your long nails, you might be wondering how to maintain your healthy nails while s...
How to
Make a Capo with Office Materials
Capos are useful tools for the guitarist to switch keys without learning funky chord shapes.. 15 February 2019. So, if you're jamming with fellow work mates while work should be done, you can make your own capo for less ...
How to
Tune Your Guitar to Nashville Tuning
Nashville tuning isn't exactly an alternate tuning, the way most guitarists use that term. Your strings are still tuned to the same notes. However, the lower 4 strings are tuned an octave up from the standard. This gives...
How to
Wear Finger Picks
Finger picks are typically used for playing a bluegrass style of banjo music, but they can also be used by guitar and autoharp players—along with other types of instruments. Picks usually come in metal or plastic and i...
How to
Find an Octave on a Guitar
Western musical scales are based on 8 notes and those 8 notes form an octave. In turn, you can break those 8 notes down into 12 half steps, represented on the fretboard of a guitar by 12 frets, the metal bars across the ...
How to
Tune a Guitar to Drop D
Drop D tuning is when you tune the top string, or the 6th string of your guitar, to a D instead of an E while keeping the rest of the guitar in standard tuning. Drop D is used in heavy metal, hardcore, and even blues mus...
How to
Relic a Guitar
When guitarists discuss relicing a guitar, they are talking about making a newer instrument look worn. This is similar to "wearing in" clothing or deliberately causing something to look more aged. In the guitar market, i...
How to
Capo a Fret on an Acoustic Guitar
A guitar capo is a device used by many guitarists to easily raise the pitch of their guitar. It works by clamping the strings down on a given fret, which changes the key. Say you know a song in only one key – playing w...
