Line 6 Spider III 120 Stereo Guitar Combo Amp

I have owned this amp for a few months now, and this is a great piece of work! Maybe the presets are a little overrated, but I prefer to make my own, and making your own is quick, easy, and you can make amazing sounds.

I use a Schecter C-1 Hellraiser through this amp and the sounds are so sweet. My old Fender sounds kind of bad if the tone gets to high, but then again it's a cheap guitar.

I played this in my friends garage, and it flat out dominated in sound. It could play over the drums and everything if I wanted it to. Anyone who says you can't volume it up is either nuts, or my amp was just blessed. I don't know, but my amp takes high volume with no problems.

I love the different amp models, even if they are digital. I can easily switch from a clean sound to a crazy shredding tone.

If you are unsure on whether or not you will continue to play guitar for a long time, you probably shouldn't buy this amp, as it is very expensive. I recommend it to any serious guitar players.

Slash

Saul Hudson, more commonly known as Slash, was born on July 23rd, 1965. He grew up with his mother as a clothing designer and his father an art director for a record company. In the mid-1970's, his parents separated and he was forced to live with his grandma. At this point in his life, he got interested in BMX riding and went on to win awards and money in competitions. When he turned 15, he got really interested in guitar (sound like anyone you know?) and it became a very consuming hobby. His grades plummeted, as he was never interested in school, and now he skipped to play guitar all day long. In 11th grade, he dropped out. Living in Los Angeles, It was easy for him to find people to play sessions with, and in 1986 he created Guns N' Roses. The band consisted of Steven Adler (drums), Izzy Stradlin (guitar), Axl Rose (vocals) and Duff McKagan (bass), and of course, him playing guitar. The band was a huge success and they went on to do amazing things like world tours. After one of their big tours, they decided to take a break. Slash couldn't deal with stopping his playing so he made his own band, Slash's Snakepit. This band had a big success with its album, It's Five O' Clock Somewhere, in 1995. During this time, Axl and Slash were having arguments over where Guns N' Roses was going. Eventually, Guns N' Roses was finished when Slash decided to leave the band. He moved on to doing smaller gigs and such for a time. In 2001, he married Perla Ferrar in his favorite black leather pants, white shirt, and black leather jacket. You would think that being a married man would slow his musical career down, but it didn't. He formed Velvet Revolver in 2003, and now they are working to become an amazing rock band. Slash has definitely worked hard to become one of the greatest guitarists in history.

An Idea

Maybe I'm full of anger, sitting in my room
With nothing to do but to sit and to fume
Or maybe I'm sad, this life's bad, I don't want it
When something just clicks and I'm lost in the moment.

Like an adrenaline rush, or a sudden spark
A match being lit in the dark.

The music turns on and it plays in my head
I just have to write what it said
The lyrics are done, and the song is not far...
So I reach to grab my guitar.

How to tune a guitar

I will now show you how to tune your guitar in E standard tuning, which is the most common tuning of a guitar.


In order to begin tuning the guitar, you'll need a "reference pitch" from another source. Once you've found a source for this initial pitch (it could be a piano, a tuning fork, another guitar, or any number of other options), you'll be able to tune the rest of your instrument by using that one note.


If you didn't already know, the 6 open string notes are (low) E, A, D, G, B, and (high) E. The reference pitch you will need will be the low E. When you have found the pitch for the low E, you must turn the knob on the head of the guitar that changes the pitch of the E string. When the reference pitch matches the pitch of your low E, you have tuned the 6th string.

Now you will have to use the 6th string to find the pitch you will want for your 5th string. The picture below helps show how to do this.

If you hold down the fifth fret of the low E string and pluck it, it makes an A note. This A note should match the pitch of the 5th string. Tune the 5th string to sound like the A note on the 6th string.

Next, do the same thing, and hold the 5th fret down on the 5th string and pluck it to produce a D note. Tune the 4th string to sound like the D note on the 5th string.

Hold the fifth fret down on the 4th string and tune the 3rd string to sound like it.

This time, make sure to hold down the FOURTH fret on the 3rd string and tune the 2nd string to sound like it.

Finally, hold down the fifth fret on the 2nd string and tune the 1st string to sound like it.

If you've done these things correctly, you've successfully tuned your guitar!

The top ten most popular guitars

10. BC Rich Warlock - This guitar was introduced in the 1970's. It is known mostly for its strange shape. It was made popular by heavy metal bands in the 1980s like Megadeth, Danzig, Warrant and Poison.

9. Gibson SG - The SG was created in 1961. Most people heard about this guitar from the heavy metal band, AC/DC.

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8. Gibson Explorer - The shape was a favorite for heavy metal guitarists. The shape was so popular that other companies made clones of this guitar. James Hetfield of Metallica played with this guitar.

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7. Danelectro - This guitar had one of the most simple designs. The Danelectro had a cylindrical pick-up nicknamed the "lipstick." This was Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin's favorite guitar in the last few years that the band played.

6. Gibson SG Doubleneck - One of the strangest looking guitars. The cool thing about this guitar was that since the top neck of the guitar had 12 strings and the bottom had 6, it could have two different feels and tones at the same time, which made it so that the guitarist wouldn't have to play with amp tones and tuning as much.

5.Gibson Flying- V - This guitar was actually a favorite of Jimi Hendrix. It is recognizable by many.

4. Rickenbacker 425, 360/12 - What's cool about this guitar is the sound of hitting all 12 of its strings. The guitar was made famous in rock and roll by George Harrison and John Lennon. It was good for finding a melodic/harmonic tone. Since then, bands from the Byrds to R.E.M. also consider this a top pick and a device used to create their unique sound.

3.Fender Telecaster - This was another guitar with a unique sound made famous by Jimmy Page. It usually has only one single-coil pick-up.

2. Fender Stratocaster - Many electric guitarists can recognize the clear and bright sound of a Fender "Strat". It is amazing that a guitar so hold still has the same power that Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton made back in the 1960's. It could be considered as one of the top choices of blues players.

1. Gibson Les Paul Standard - Standard and unchanged, this guitar is easily recognizable and is equipped with 2 humbucker pick-ups. It has almost every sound you need from a guitar. The Les Paul Standard is the most popular electric guitar in history.