Best Overdrive Pedals 2024 Round-Up: Essential Pedals To Consider

Best Overdrive Pedals

An overdrive pedal can have a significant impact on your guitar sound, and would be the first choice of many guitarists if they could have only one pedal in their rig.

The sound of an overdrive pedal can range from a gentle boost to full-on distortion, and the model you choose can define your tone. With the multitude of options out there, selecting the right pedal can be a daunting task.

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That's why we've put together a list of the ten best overdrive pedals available in 2024. We've taken into consideration tone, build quality, versatility, and price into our selections, and there is something for all styles at all price levels.

Whether you’re looking for something that can give you a light, bluesy crunch or a pedal that will propel your solos into hard-rock territory, our guide is designed to help you make an informed decision.

Join us in our quest for the perfect overdrive…

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How To Overcome Stage Fright: Practical Tips For Performance Anxiety

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Stage fright is a primitive physical response to a frightening situation. Your stone-age ancestor felt the same rush of adrenaline, the same crippling anxiety, trembling and shortness of breath when confronted by a saber-tooth tiger.

The stone-age you would have used this adrenaline burst either to slay the saber-tooth tiger or to run away.

When you're a guitarist confronting an audience, those options aren't appropriate (however tempting), so how do you channel your flood of adrenaline productively?

In this article, we suggest practical tips on how to overcome stage fright, ranging from breathing exercises to eating a banana (really).

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Easy Christmas Carols For Guitar: Sheet Music, Chords, TAB & Lyrics

Christmas Carols For Guitar

Christmas Carols For Guitar is a collection of fourteen popular carols arranged for easy solo fingerstyle guitar. The music is presented in traditional music notation and TAB.

You can view and download free sample pages below.

Want to accompany a singer or other instrumentalist? Guitar chords (with diagrams) and lyrics are also provided.

This book gives you everything you need to give a Christmas guitar performance!

Christmas Carols For Guitar is available as a PDF file that you can download and print immediately!

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Best Genesis Albums Ranked & Reviewed By Long-Time Fan

Best Genesis Albums Ranked

Over the course of their multi-decade spanning career, Genesis released fifteen studio albums, as well as numerous live and compilation albums.

Known both as progressive rock titans and as chart-topping, stadium-filling pop-rockers, the band Genesis means many different things to many different types of music fans.

In this article, we delve into the band’s studio recordings, ranking and reviewing the top ten best Genesis albums. We also provide a detailed list of the group’s entire studio discography.

Whether you’re new to Genesis, or a seasoned fan wishing to compare our rankings with your own, read on to explore some of the most exciting, innovative and moving music ever made…

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