Smart, Stringless, and Strikingly Easy to Use For decades, learning the guitar has been a frustrating journey for many - a ...

A choirmaster, organist and expert in many archaic music styles, John Paul Jones also happened to play bass guitar in the ...

When we learn about creating a chord from a scale, we list the notes in order of appearance: Root, 3rd, 5th. However, swapping this order around can sometimes be really effective. Shifting the 3rd (or ...

Elements of the blues traveled to America with enslaved people from Africa, and reached full flower in the Mississippi Delta.

When I first heard Joe Buchanan’s country music, I assumed he was a Messianic Jew. “How good, how good,” he croons with a Texas drawl over a twangy guitar. “Yeah, God I love the house where you grow.” ...

Having signed off with International, likely their last studio album, Saint Etienne ’s Sarah Cracknell walks Alan Pedder ...

A guitar is much more than a set of strings being dragged over a piece of timber. It is a narrator–a tool which could whisper ...

What makes the Gibson ES-350 so good for rock? Bonamassa says they are a real live wire, with “a lot of pop” and no shortage ...

I miss my piano. For decades, a 1944 baby grand piano sat gloriously in the corner of my living room, and now that spot is ...

Our writers' picks for the very best bands since rock became a permanent part of popular music. One thing is for sure every year around the time of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies — ...