About PhilipHancock


Phil Hancock grew up in Dorset and now lives in Hertfordshire. He started playing guitar as a teenager and has never stopped since then. Phil has been in many different bands since he started learning and now teaches students privately.

Recent Guitar Jar articles by PhilipHancock:

Guitar Store Blues

Guitar Store Blues

Guitar Jar contributor, Philip Hancock takes us through ever so familiar situation of “Guitar Shop Blues”.

Surely everybody experiences the same fear when buying a guitar from a shop on the high street. No matter how many years you have been playing, how many chords you know, and how many crowds you have won over; the question that haunts every guitarist who walks into a shop to buy a guitar must be- what confounded riffs shall I play? Unless, maybe, I am an exception. However I am sure it must cross all of our minds when we consider purchasing that lusted after axe gleaming in the shop window.

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