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Popular Brands of Electric Guitars

Are you an guitar freak? Do you want to know about the popular brands of electric guitars? Then here is the just what you want.

There is a long list of popular electric guitar brands. Information about some of the most popular ones among them is given below.

Fender:

Fender is a very renowned name in the arena of electric guitars. Mr. Leo Fender introduced this company in the year 1946. For times, Fender has supplied series of brilliant electric guitars. Their guitars are used in every genre of music. Like, rock, pop, rock and roll etc.

They have got different models of electric guitars like, VG Stratocaster, American Deluxe telecaster, Showmaster FAT HH (Flame Ash Top), Showmaster QMT HH (Quilt Maple Top) etc.

Ibanez:

Ibanez is another popular brand of electric guitars. Mr. Hoshino Gakki started this company in 1978.

Ibanez have a varied range of electric guitars. Like, Ibanez RG220, Ibanez IJX40, Ibanez GRG170DX, and Ibanez SZ320 etc.

Ibanez has made some brand new guitars in 2007. They are, Xiphos XPT700 (X Series), V Blade VBT700 (X Series), RG 8 String RG2228 (RG Series).

Gibson

This is one of the best among popular brands of electric guitars. Mr. Orville Gibson founded this company in 1902.

Some brilliant models of Gibson electric guitars are, Gibson ES175 Reissue Electric Guitar, Gibson ES137 Custom Electric Guitar, Gibson Standard SG Electric Guitar, and Gibson SG Standard Left Handed Electric Guitar.

Washburn:

This company was started in Chicago, in the year 1883. From then on it has not stopped creating quality guitars.

Washburn WI66PRO Idol Pro Electric Guitar, Washburn HB30 Hollow Body Electric Guitar, Washburn WI64DL TBL Electric Guitars are some of their high in demand guitar models.

Yamaha:

Yamaha is a very old and reputed company. They are somehow different from other popular brands of electric guitars. This company is in the instrument circuit since the end of 1800. But at that time they used to make organs. In 1900 they made piano. And in 1942, they started making guitars. Their guitars are very much popular and loved by various musicians all over the world.

Some very popular Yamaha electric guitar models are, Yamaha AES420 BL Guitar, Yamaha AES420 RM Guitar, Yamaha PAC012 Pacifica Electric Guitar Pack BL, and Yamaha PAC012 Pacifica Electric Guitar Pack DBM.

ESP:

ESP is a very famous brand now. E.S.P. stands for Electric Sound Products. At first they used to make replacement parts of other guitars. But from 1976 onwards they started making guitars.

ESP LTD Standard M100 guitars, ESP LTD H200 , ESP LTD Standard EX50, ESP LTD Deluxe EC1000 etc.

These are some popular brands of electric guitars. These brands of guitars are useful, user friendly, stylish and of good quality. Sometimes they are a bit expensive. But it is worth spending handsome amount of money for real good brands.

Overall these brands are very famous and they have a reputation to keep. So you can rely on them and can believe that they won't let you down.


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Alternate picking exercises? (Answers: 2) (Comments: 0)
I'm self-taught and I've been playing for about a year now. I just recently learned about alternate picking (sad, I know) and wanted to know some exercises. Also, does alternate picking help in playing any Avenged Sevenfold songs? Those are the songs I mainly play.

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Should you still use alternate picking when hammering on and off? (Answers: 2) (Comments: 0)
in this book i have it says the alternate picking will be disrupted when adding hammers and pulls....like...."when a lick uses hammer-ons and pull-offs, just skip the down or up strokes for that note, but dont change the rest of the picking pattern....".... Its like...okay, That would be really hard when you have to do a solo pretty fast...its like......thas impossible.

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Palm muted alternate picking seems hard on electric guitar? I keep catching the string? (Answers: 1) (Comments: 0)
Well compared to non palm muted alternate picking its much harder, the string isnt as loose so i keep catching the string which screws up my alternate picking. Whats the technique here?

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Do I start up or down on alternate picking - acoustic? (Answers: 2) (Comments: 0)
On an acoustic guitar, does it matter if I start picking up or down when I start to play? Teacher said alternate picking is less work than if you did all ups or all downs? Correct? Thanks

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Do you always have to use alternate picking? (Answers: 3) (Comments: 0)
I just started guitar a week ago and discovered alternate picking a little while ago does this mean i have to use alternate picking on every note i play?

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