Good Vibes & Gear

By Lila Karash, Local Musician and Teacher at Twin Town Guitars

A lot of us are feeling isolated right now due to the pandemic. But isolation can be your friend! I'm talking about isolating different parts when you're practicing guitar. Your brain can become cluttered at first when it's trying to do too many things at once. 

By Lila Karash, Local Musician and Teacher at Twin Town Guitars

Calling all fretting hands! If you are a fretting hand and your fingernails are too long, be advised that you are in danger of committing thunky, unclear chord sounds. Why?

By Jeb Silburn, Twin Town Guitars Staff Writer

Finding the perfect pair of drum sticks is not always such a straightforward task. With such an impressive variety to choose from, many having the slightest differences from the next, it can take some time to find what works best for you. 

By Lila Karash, Teacher & Local Singer Songwriter

Here's a thing that I hear about a lot: A student practices a song and plays it perfectly when they're at home and nobody else is listening. But as soon as they play it in front of the teacher or someone else, they choke and mess it all up. If this happens to you, it's perfectly normal!

By Lila Karash, Teacher & Local Singer Songwriter

When you're practicing a song, do you often lose track of where you are on the page because you are looking down at your hands? This is something that happens often for beginners.

By Jeb Silburn, Twin Town Guitars Staff Writer

Little else can top the wall shaking power of a tube amplifier. Any guitarist who has plugged into one has felt that deep sense of wonder as they let their first few strums come through the speakers. Whether you’re a beginner in the tube wattage world, or an expert in the tone field, a tube amp is a needy little monster- there’s some maintenance and care required.

By Lila Karash, Teacher & Local Singer Songwriter 

When I was younger, I used to like to use heavy metal distortion with a washy reverb or delay. One day, another guitar player told me: "That's what beginners do to hide their mistakes."

By Lila Karash

Playing guitar with a metronome can be disorienting at first. It can seem like more of a distraction than an aid. When you are new to it, you might be listening only to yourself and focusing only on what your hands are doing. 

By Lila Karash

How long will it take to learn to play guitar? This is a question that I often get from beginner students, but it can apply to any level of playing (I've been playing guitar for a long time but I still haven't mastered it). 

By Jeb Silburn

Colder weather often brings drier weather. Every year we fill up the humidifiers and keep lip balm in our pockets, but do we pay attention to our guitars? Dry conditions may spell ruin for an acoustic guitar. Enter the humidifier.