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Joe Satriani's Top Ten Tips for Guitarists These simple pointers can seriously improve your practice, playing and performance
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Preparing your instrument for the studio environment.

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Players seeking vintage specs tend to rave about nickel strings, but not all products advertised as nickel strings are what they seem...

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