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Video Question: Active vs Passive Guitars

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Date: February 11th, 2008 | Length: 1.45 | Instructor: Jesse Selwyn

Ellen asks, "Hi, what do I need to know about active and passive guitars? What makes one active and another passive? I have been shopping for a CD player and amp that I can run my guitar through at the same time. How can I tell if my guitar is active or passive?" Another benefit of being a member of JamPlay is the video response section. Our expert staff fields questions from our members and provides video responses each week.

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Other Video Responses:

- July 11th, 2008 (5 minutes, 80 seconds)
Mingofalls asks, "Hi, I'm trying to learn more on Music theory, and I'm alittle confused on Major scales the way they the notes are set up. Why does the C Major scale have no sharps or flats, Why is there an F# in the G Major scale, and Why is there a Bb in the F Major scale? I'm somewhat confused on this theory! Thanks! JamOn" View Response
Guitar Choices - February 12th, 2008 (2 minutes, 11 seconds)
Ric2play asks, "I am looking for a good quality low cost acoustic. Any suggestions?" View Response
- June 20th, 2008 (3 minutes, 30 seconds)
3jennijarre asks, "i just had a ? on amplification our band is good 2 go with guitar anps and bass amps but we were wondering what we should get for the singer because whatever we use seems just to get drownd out by the playing! i have bee nsnooping around and maurgurietes music and musitians friend.com but we dont know if we shoulg get a portable start up pa package or just a big guitar amp. would that work.???????? i know this is a hard topic but please help and give any info that you have thanks jarrett" View Response
Learning to Read Tabs - May 13th, 2008 (5 minutes, 24 seconds)
Rudydog asked "So I finished phase one @ phase 2. Was great but then I got to phase 3 (learning music). I was so excited but soon found out that its not as easy as phase 1,2. Were do I learn to read tab and when to strum up and down????Did I miss something????" View Response
Music Theory - November 29th, 2007 (2 minutes, 80 seconds)
Aaron00lee asks, "I'm having trouble grasping a bit of this music theory thing, in Steve's lessons i think there is a lot of music theory and i just cant quite pull all the strings into a big web so i was wondering if you guys could just give me a quick little tidbit of the most important essential stuff, like that 1 3 5 thing...did not really grasp that. Thanks for your time!" View Response