My Interest In Music

My interest in music is courtesy my father. He not only loved listening to all kinds of music, he’d also buy audio equipment with his modest earning. He encouraged me to listen to all kinds of music and over the years I’ve enjoyed listening to pop, rock, blues, metal, bollywood and so much more.

However, though I was fascinated with Guitar, I couldn’t get the opportunity to learn Guitar. Probably because we lived in a small town that neither had a music store nor had any guitar teacher. And as I grew older, life had other plans.

The Start of Guitar

Back in 2014-15, I was grappling with some serious challenges on professional and personal front. Life threw several challenges all at once and it was hard. A well wisher advised I should take up a hobby to get my mind off the daily stress.

So I turned to guitar and after a couple of false starts, it’s been a wonderful journey.

Quit and Start Again

The false starts lasted a few months and it felt like I was moving in circles without making much progress. With work and home responsibilities it was hard to keep up.

The guitar I bought from a store wasn’t making things easier either. It was hard to play and the fingers really hurt. I learnt much later that my guitar wasn’t setup properly. I had absolutely no idea about these things.

After a tribulations lasting a couple of months, I quit.

Then a friend suggested I check out online guitar lessons where I could learn at my own pace and don’t have to keep attendance or fear falling behind.

I was already guilt ridden quitting guitar. So I decided to try the online approach.

I researched and educated myself about buying guitars and accessories and also found really good online guitar lessons and a wonderful online community for support.

And it’s been a long and wonderful journey with no interruptions.

Why This Website?

Sometime in 2022, I came across an interesting statistic.

Fender, the legendary guitar brand did an online survey and one of their findings was that over 90% of beginner guitar students quit guitar in their first year.

I can’t deny that. I was one of them.

Guitar is indeed a difficult instrument to learn.

I’ve met many people just like me who started but quit for reasons very similar to mine – lack of time, bad instrument, bad advise and more.

Through this website, I hope to remove these roadblocks for people like you and encourage you to keep going.

GuitarKraft Mission

Research and experience based honest content on learning and buying guitar and guitar gear to help people make the right buying decisions and keep learning and playing guitar for life.

We do this by providing:

Free Guitar Tutorials: These include practical ideas and concepts on guitar technique, music theory, exercises, song library and more to help you at every stage of your guitar learning journey.

Detailed Buying Guides: We publish detailed buying guides for online guitar tutorials as well as guitar gear and accessories to help give you a complete picture to help you make an informed decision.

Independent Product Reviews: Our independent, unbiased product reviews are based on personal experience and online research including ownership experience shared by other customers on various platforms.

We hope our content helps you at different stages of your musical journey.

How We Review

We are not a big media outlet with offices in marquee cities. We don’t have big budgets nor are brands lining up to have us review their products.

We are a small outfit operating from a 100 sq.ft. study with limited budget but with a crystal clear intent of putting our reader’s interest above everything else.

We divide our review process in 4 steps:

1. Buy Product (budget permitting)
2. Use & Test
3. Research
4. Review

Depending on the product, we consider different criteria that include (but not limited to) product specs, features, build quality, sound, ease of use, brand reputation, price, warranties etc.

Each review is done with the objective of giving an independent and unbiased opinion on the product that serves our reader’s interest.

How We Make Money?

It takes time and money to do what we do.

At present, we earn through affiliate sales. Put simply, every time you click a referral link on guitarkraft.com and make a purchase from our partner’s online store, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you.

Purchases made through these referral links do not cost you anything extra.

These affiliate commissions helps us keep things going, encourages us to work harder and occasionally buy treats for our furball.

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We shall be making full disclosure here if we add other revenue channels in future.

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