Posted by Curtis Dueck on October 8th, 2006
Guitar Tabs & Fender Top Online Guitar Search
Everybody wants a new guitar to kickstart their dreams of becoming a rock star – but what kind of guitars are people dreaming of?
Recent research by Epiar explored the demand for rock music’s favourite instrument by sorting frequency with which phrases including the word “guitar” are entered into search engines. Several charts emerged which show the top guitar brands, types, tabs, pointers, and accessories – lists that should make any aspiring Jimi Hendrix, Chet Atkins, Django Reinhardt, or Randy Rhodes salivate!
For a complete listing of the top 6000 search phrases that include the word “guitar”, click here.
Power Brands
Guitar enthusiasts love to dream about the next guitar to add to their collection, apparently turning to online search as a part of the fun. Should it be a mellow solid-body Gibson electric? Or perhaps a 12-string jumbo acoustic for that bluegrass project? How about a vintage Fender Stratocaster, internet search’s most popular model? Or a Hamer bass for subbing in while your bassist is gone on summer vacation?
When looking through the top 52,591,755 estimated annual searches for guitars, the following popular brands and manufacturers emerged at the top of the heap:
So Many Riffs, So Little Time
Without surprise, extensive searches for resource material relating to playing guitar were also found. Not only are people going online to dream about their next guitar purchase, they are also using search engines to find songs, tabs, chords, lessons, and scales. Highlight phrases from the complete guitar resources research report include the following top 10 search phrases:
- Guitar tabs (searched 7,538 times per day)
- Free guitar tabs (1,337)
- Guitar lessons (731)
- Free guitar lessons (440)
- Free guitar tablature (338)
- Christian guitar tabs (318)
- Guitar scales (311)
- Guitar chord charts (308)
- Guitar music (302)
- Free guitar music (300)
Take it to the Coda…
All this talk of guitars makes me want to play a few songs and solos right now! Good thing my whammy bar’s in and those amplifier tubes are nearly warmed and ready to go…
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