With Guitar Hero on extended leave and no new Rock Band title coming out this year, now is the perfect time to trade in our toy guitars for something a bit more substantial. Going from five colorful ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Julian Lage You may have heard that jazz guitar players artfully play ‘wrong’ notes. However, if you just play at random frets you ...

Guitar skills: With its creative songwriting, pristine production and jaw-dropping skill, it’s hard to believe that Passion And Warfare was Steve Vai’s second release. Of course, Steve was already a ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Fender Strat is ideal for SRV-style Texas blues. A Gibson ES-335 will give you BB King or ...

Alternate tunings can be a gateway to creative ideas and new textures, but they often require re-orienting yourself with the fretboard. Nashville tuning, however, requires no such effort, as you can ...

Conventional wisdom dictates that a well-written song will stand up even when reduced to simple chords on acoustic guitar. But at some point, we’ve all heard songs in which complex or unusual chord ...