Lesson: 10 Things You Can Do To Play Better

FEATURE: Megadeth's album-art guitars
Chris Broderick’s cool new Megadeth Endgame Ibanez custom guitar (reported here last week) isn’t the first axe to feature Megadeth-themed album art. Since Megadeth’s return with The System Has Failed, Dave Mustaine and his co-guitarists have used a whole bunch of custom guitars from ESP/LTD, Dean and Ibanez.Dave MustaineHere are a pair of Dean VMNTs with artwork from Rust In Peace and United Abominations, respectively.

My social media policy
I’ve seen a few sites do this recently, so I thought I should do one too. So here’s my deal with social media.Twitter I mostly use Twitter, and you can find me there at www.twitter.com/iheartguitar. I tweet about guitar-related stuff as well as random stuff here and there. I like to use Twitter for more than just alerting people to when a new post is up - sometimes I might post from gigs, or to see if anyone has a question for an upcoming interview, a progress report about a review I'm working on, or just whatever I'm doing that day. I don’t automatically follow back everyone who follows

NEWS: Hagstrom now available on Amazon.com
Here's some cool news for Hagstrom fans - you can now buy Hagstrom guitars on Am

NEWS: Grover Allman launches PrintedPicks.com
Pick company Grover Allman has launched www.printedpicks.com, a new site dedicated to their awesome custom pick service. I can personally vouch for the coolness of Grover Allman’s pick-printing process. See?I probably should get some more of these made up soon to hand out at NAMM!

INTERVIEW: Steve Gorman - The Black Crowes
I know, I know, this is a guitar site and what am I doing interviewing a drummer? Well, the chance for this interview came up and it was printed in Mixdown and Beat. I really enjoyed the chat, and since it's my site and I can do whatever I like, and especially because you can learn from fellow musicians no matter what they play, here it is!The new Black Crowes release, Befor