It’s no secret that the guitar is the backbone of pretty much every song. Whether it’s a railing, electric solo that makes listeners want to break out their best air guitar, a stripped-down acoustic ...

Hidden under the High Strung music shop on Durham’s Ninth Street, the Gadow Guitar factory buzzes with activity and ambition. The noise of sanding and the loud hum of the exhaust fan are constant.

Say the words ‘instrumental guitar’, and music fans of a certain age might think of Hank Marvin; your longtime guitar fan will probably throw out the names of OG shredders like Joe Satriani and Yngwie ...

The guitar Kurt Cobain famously played during Nirvana's 1993 MTV Unplugged performance has been donated to the Royal College ...

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In 1904, Joseph Kekuku, inventor of the Hawaiian steel guitar, left Hawaii to perform on the American West Coast. Newspaper critics called him the “world’s greatest guitar soloist.” Redpath Chautauqua ...

From the sultry Spanish sounds of the Concierto de Aranjuez to modern adaptations of 17th-century lute music, some of the greatest classical music sounds absolutely stunning on guitar. For a work as ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Guitar music is a ubiquitous feature of popular music, ...

The electric guitar is one of the world’s most enduring symbols of rock and roll, with classic designs like the fender Stratocaster and Gibson Les Paul remaining musical icons. Many of the musicians ...

The birth of the electric guitar created a new genre of music: rock ‘n’ roll. But the inventors who developed the solid-body electric guitar, Leo Fender and Les Paul, could hardly have imagined the ...

My pick of the best guitar VST instruments will get great guitar tones for your productions, even if you’ve never played guitar before When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...