George Harrison may have been a fairly quiet guitar hero, but when he did speak up, every one of his breaks spoke volumes.

Alexandra Whittingham and Sönke Meinen can thank their dear old dads for turning them onto playing guitar. If there’s an instrument laying around the house most kids will naturally pick it up and ...

First used by ’50s legends Chet Atkins and Les Paul, it is rock, metal and punk that have made palm muting so popular today ...

Guitar-specific headphones meet a wireless transmitter, and it's all tied together with Positive Grid's Spark app functionality. But, this isn't the full Spark picture you might be used to ...

From Eddie Van Halen and Stevie Ray Vaughan to Daniel Ash and Jamie West-Oram, we cover the gamut of the decade's greatest players across the genres ...

The virtuoso adds that he and Joe Satriani are “feverishly writing” new music together for the SatchVai band, whose tour kicks off in June ...

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One reviewer shared: "The sound is very good, bassy, but the equaliser in the companion app (which is very good) allows you to tune. I use the dual device pairing to connect to phone and laptop ...

It just sometimes has to sound good and feel right ... But when they got together at day’s end, and Bobbie would play the piano, and Willie would try to learn guitar as he played along with ...

Although there are still critical darlings that are carrying on the good word that Dolly ... attention for how much it doesn’t sound like Brian May, usually relying on one guitar rather than his habit ...

I played guitar from when I was 11. So I was very much in tune with what they were. I had a script. I looked at the script, and I was a good citizen ... like two or three chords.

Major seventh chords sound nice ... an acoustic guitar, but can be just as sublime when played on electric guitars, hammond organs and synths pads. If you’re feeling a little more devilish, the major ...