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, yell, or sing the sweet truth. Behind each chord is a complicated ...

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Collier never learned on a six-string. Instead, he cut his teeth on a four-string tenor guitar. Then he had the audacity to ...

Everything starts with tuning; and if you're a guitarist it's a burden you have to accept. Pianists? They have it easy! Set and forget. But every time you pick your guitar up to play you'll need to ...

The neck makes the body and the headstock, which make you feel the guitar in your hand. Fingerboards of maple, rosewood, or ebony vary the tone and feel as well. The note accuracy is defined by the ...

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How often should guitar strings be changed? There isn’t a simple answer. Because strings wear out at different rates based on your environment, how you play and even your body chemistry, I can’t tell ...

FRAN SCOTT: I love this piece. In fact I think it was the first bitof classical music that I ever heard. GREG FOOT: Ah yes Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. It's got the best startto any piece of music ever ...

PLUGIN WEEK 2025: For the better part of five decades we have been wrestling with technology to try and get it to imitate the sound of the guitar – and all for one very good reason: it’s a damned hard ...