Found this cool video review of an Agile Interceptor 828.  This guy shreds! We like his hairstyle! Grin!

This is a very straightforwardreview that will give you lots of info about this particular guitar and let you hear how it sounds and see how it plays.

This is a 28″ scale guitar so it is definitly a handful.  Like this guy says in his video you may want to put lighter strings on it so bending is easier.

First there was Guitar Hero.  I remember the first time I played Guitar Hero the first thought that came to my mind was that it was nothing like playing a real guitar.  The second thought that came to mind was that  it was awesome to feel the power of playing with other instruments.  For a person that had never played in a band it was probably the closest to the real sensation of doing so.  Guitar Hero was a great idea, and it certainly was a massive success in the video game market, but for all of us that actually knew how to play guitar, heck even those who didn’t know how to play guitar there was always something lacking with Guitar Hero.  It left something to be desired because even though playing Guitar Hero was fun, you always knew that hitting those buttons was not the real thing.

For many burgeoning guitarists the first thing you do when you learn guitar is learn how to play your favourite song.  Once you have done that the next step is playing along with your favourite song.  I grew up playing along with casette tapes and CD’s.  Nowadays computers allow you to create your own music, play the lead track on any song, or replace the guitarist altogether.  The downfall is it takes time to find and download the tracks and then actually figure out how to play everything.  This is where the genius of Rocksmith comes into play.

Rocksmith not only lets you play real guitar with some of your favourite bands, it can also teach you how to play the songs on the guitar if you don’t know already.  In addition, if you already know how to play guitar, Rocksmith can really help you to improve your guitar playing skills with many of the drills included in the arcade portion of the game.

The game starts you off on the easiest setting but is intuitive so as it senses that you are hitting all the notes it will insert more notes and chords to be played.  Certainly, if you are a true beginner at guitar it will be a big learning curve but it can be done.  The nice thing about Rocksmith is that if you already know how to play guitar and the particular song you are playing Rocksmith doesn’t penalize you for playing extra notes and chords that it doesn’t require you to play yet.  This is nice as it allows you to not be held back by the game.

As you get further along in your career you unlock different guitars and pedals that you can use.  While I had trouble figuring out what the different guitars that I unlocked did (when I selected them it made no difference to the sound in my opinion) the pedals were definitly cool.  If you get tired of playing the songs and just want to mess around on your guitar with different sounds you can go to the Rocksmith amp section and pick different amps and pedal effects to add to your setup.  This is actually pretty cool as to physically buy all the pedals to use with an amp would cost a lot of money.  With Rocksmith you literally can unlock and play with dozens of pedals and effects.

If you already have a guitar all you need is to buy the Rocksmith game with the patch chord included with it to plug your electric guitar into your game console.  If you don’t have a guitar you can buy Rocksmith that actually comes with a real Epiphone guitar.  I haven’t played this guitar so I am not sure if it is any good or not.

I especially think Rocksmith would be most enjoyed by the guy or girl that plays guitar but doesn’t have a band or anything to play in.  You can really improve your guitar skills and learn a lot of cool licks and riffs that may help you in your own songwriting.  If you are looking to expand your guitar skills, learn guitar, or just have some fun with your guitar than I would highly recommend Rocksmith.

Get Rocksmith Here.

Looking for a cheap Les Paul copy?

Check out this Agile al3000 goldtop!  It is a beauty and it sounds just butter!

This is a short little clip but from watching it you can hear that the guitar sounds phenomenal!

From the write up on the video everything on this Agile is stock except the guy switched out the capacitors for orange drops.

The tone of this guitar is awesome.  You would pay double if not triple for something of similar quality from Epiphone.

If you are looking for a cheap Les Paul copy than you can find these guitars by CLICKING HERE!

Is there such a thing as Cheap Les Paul Guitars For Sale?

What is a Cheap Les Paul guitar anyways?  How much is cheap?  Does $1000 make it a cheap les paul guitar or does $5000 make it a cheap les paul guitar for sale?

Note: We just searched Guitarcenter.com and the cheapest Gibson Les Paul we could find is still over $800!  That is for a base model Gibson Les Paul. 

You could get this for like $200!  ——–>>>>>>>>

To us those prices are not cheap.  Most people can’t justify spending that kind of money on a guitar right now.

But I still want a cheap Les Paul guitar!  You hear about all these secret deals from China where you can buy direct from the factory and get it cheap because they make it for a fraction of what they sell it for.

What do you do?

$200 electric guitars for sale?

Yes you can find $200 electric guitars for sale but the question is can you find a decent electric guitar for $200?

We can say with great certainty, that the best $200 guitar we ever bought was an Agile Al2000.  You just cannot beat that guitar for the price.  The other day we were at the local Costco and picked up a guitar they had for sale for $199.  We think it was a squire strat or something.  It was an okay guitar but for the price the Agile was in our opinion miles better.

The feel of the Agile is solid and we just felt the finishing and setup just make it way easier to play.  You know how you just pick up some guitars and they are easy to play?  Your hand just glides over the frets while on other guitars no matter how much you adjust it or tune it it just doesn’t feel right?  The squire felt awkward while the Agile felt like, well, like butter.

It is a solid guitar.  Beefy is the word we like to use but not too beefy.  It’s funny because when we walked through Costco we by chance saw the guitar they had for sale and just thought why not give it a try.  It just made us appreciate our Agile Al2000 that much more and again think to ourselves, “I can’t believe it’s only like $200″.

If all you have is $200 and you are looking for electric guitars for sale than head over to Rondomusic.com and check out the Agile Al2000.  It comes in lots of different finishes.  We have truly enjoyed ours!

Agile al2000 Review Update – We love it more than we did before!

We thought that it would be good to talk a little more about our Agile Al2000.  The one thing we know is that there are a lot of reviews out there on the Agile Al2000.  Most of them go over the initial reaction of the reviewer to the Agile Al2000.  The Agile Al2000 has garnered a lot of great reviews.

If you know anything about reviews you might view them with a skeptical eye as we do.  It is no secret that a lot of reviews out there may have a hidden agenda.  Are the reviews just made by the company that makes said product in order to get you to buy more of said product?  We always have that in the back of our minds when reading reviews.  However, it is our experience that if a product is bad it is really hard for a company to cover that up.  It seems that the people most scorned complain the loudest and rightly so!  If a product is crap people are going to say it is crap.  Sometimes however, as with any product, there are always a lemon or two in any production run.  Sometimes those people complain, and they should, but you never hear from the people that are really happy and satisfied with the product.  Well we thought it would be good to let you know how our Agile Al2000 is holding up.  Many times you hear the initial great review but never how well the product held up down the line.

Here we go!  We have had our Agile Al2000 guitar for 4 years now.  In case you didn’t know it is a very nice goldtop with cream binding around the body and neck.  The guitar has been used and abused.  And we mean abused!  It has been accidentally dropped on concrete and fallen over many times.  The neck and fingerboard were gnawed on by a teething toddler.  Said toddler also has attempted to use drum sticks to play the guitar by repeatedly smashing it!  We feel sorry for the guitar just thinking about it.

Did we mention that this guitar gets played once in awhile too!  Despite all the abuse the guitar still performs admirably.  Most importantly, those Grover tuners still keep the guitar in tune!  The only thing on the guitar that has not held up is the input jack.  It is very loose and tends to cutout at times.  All in all, we feel this is pretty minor and is an easy do it yourself repair job or you can take it in and have it repaired/replaced at your local music store.  Other than that we still love this guitar.  What is really great is it takes a beating and still keeps going.  And because it was only $200 we don’t feel so bad if it gets dropped or the toddler uses it to cut his teeth on.   It won’t break our bank to go buy another one.  Would we recommend this guitar?  Without hesitation.

There are a variety of quality guitars in some great finishes, including the Agile Al2000, available at Rondomusic.com.

The answer it seems, no matter how many guitars you have, is always one more!  When you have one guitar you are there is still always that other guitar that you would also like to have and that really doesn’t change when you have two guitars, three guitars or twenty guitars.  You still always find another guitar that you want.

Now this can become a very expensive hobby as many guitars are not cheap.  If you are buying genuine Fenders and Gibson’s , let’s say, than this could be something that costs you thousands or tens of thousands of dollars depending on how many guitars you acquire in your collection.  Might we add that we are very jeolous if you can afford to do that!

For the rest of us, that don’t have tens of thousands of dollars to spend on a guitar collection there is still hope!  There is hope for those of us that maybe only have hundreds of dollars to spend on a guitar collection.  Have you every heard of Agile guitars or SX guitars?  Well if you want quantity in your guitar collection but don’t want to sacrifice quality than these are the guitars for you.

You can pick up an Agile Al 2000 for just over $200!  This is a great Les Paul style guitar that comes with Grover tuners and excellent materials and construction.  They are raved about on many online forums for their excellent quality and playability at a low price.  SX guitars are much the same and many can be purchased for under $200.  SX offers guitars in all different styles from Stratocaster and Telecaster style guitars to Ibanez style shredding guitars.  For $500 you could buy maybe two or three guitars!

We know what some of you are thinking.  Yes they are not real Fenders or Les Paul’s or Ibanez’s but who cares, it’s fun to make your dollar go further and to be able to afford two or three guitars instead of just one guitar.  This way you don’t get bored just playing the same guitar all the time.  You can experience and expirement with the different sounds and nuances of different guitars.  How fun is that!

You can find Agile and SX guitars at Rondomusic.com.

If you have just gotten your first guitar than sooner or later you are going to need to change the strings.  Sometimes the beginner guitar player will take their guitar in to have the strings changed because they are not sure how to do it themselves.  Here’s the deal…if you want to play guitar than you have to know how to change your strings.  Save yourself some money and learn how to do it yourself.   It is not that hard.

Here are the main things you will need to change the strings on your guitar:

1. string winder
2. pliers to remove the pins if you don’t have a string winder.
3. some furniture oil
4. wire cutter tool
5. rag or cloth
6. new strings

Now that you have all the materials you will need to do the job you are ready to begin.  It is recommended that you only change one string and a time and do not remove all the strings at the same time so you keep the neck of the guitar under tension.  Here are the steps to change your strings:

1. unwind the first string
2. use pliers or notch on the end of the string winder to pop the pin in the bridge that holds in the other end of the string
3. take your cloth and wipe any finger grime off the fret board.
4. depending on what type of wood your finger board is made of you can take some furniture polish, put it on your cloth and apply it to the exposed fingerboard.  It is important to make sure you have the right type of wood to do this so check first.
5. take the end of the string that goes in the bridge and insert it into the whole with the pin.  Use a mallet to tap in the pin so it doesn’t pop out when you tighten the string.
6. insert the other end of the string into the tuner and pull up the slack and then use the string winder to tighten the string.
7. cut off the excess string with your wire cutter.
8. repeat steps 1 to 7 for all the remaining strings
9. tune the guitar

That is it!  You are now ready to play with a new set of strings and your guitar should sound like new again!

We came across this video and just had to share it with everyone.  This video is pretty popular so you may have seen it already but it is still pretty amazing to see this guy play an eleven string base!  The guy playing the bass is Jean Baudin.  From the video it looks like he might have made it himself or something.  Apparently he really likes video game songs because there is another video of him playing the theme song to Legend of  Zelda.  At any rate, we are impressed!

If you are looking for a bass,  not of the eleven string variety, than check out Rondomusic.com because in addition to the great guitars they make they also have great basses!

When it comes to which guitar is the best 7 string guitarthere are many options to choose from.  In fact, it is really hard to narrow it down to just one guitar that is the best 7 string guitar.  Many factors play into the best 7 string guitar such as what do you want to use it for, how much money to do you want to spend, what features does it need to have?  Someone else’s best 7 string guitar might not be the best for you and visa versa, what might be the best 7 string guitar for you may not be the best for someone else. If you have read any of the other blog posts here you know that we at ElectricGuitarCity.com love quality guitars and reasonable prices.  So for you gunslingers out there looking for the best 7 string guitar you can get your hands on than we suggest checking out the line of 7 string guitars Agile has to offer.  These are well made, quality 7 string guitars that are offered at really reasonable prices when compared to other companies that offer 7 string guitars. Particularly, we would like to direct your attention to the Agile Pendulum Pro 7 RN Nat.  In our humble opinion this thing is sick!  Check out what the Pendulum Pro 7 comes with:

• Grover tuners
• Kahler tremolo
• Mahogany body
• Five piece Maple neck
• Rosewood fretboard
• Cepheus 8 active pickup
• Jumbo frets