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Deep-dive your technique for powerful intervals with six string-jumping, fretboard-stretching examples from one of the world's most influential super-pickers ...

Every electric guitar presents a problem. It’s the fascinating sort of problem that musicians delight in confronting, over and over again. But is it ever really solved?

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This post was updated Feb. 24 at 9:40 p.m. Gorillaz’s recent sound took listeners to new heights – the highest mountain. On Sunday, the animated British band Gorillaz performed the entirety of their ...

All good rock and roll comes back to the guitar riff, but some of the greatest riffs of all time came to these artists purely ...

Everything about Nancy Wilson is cool – her guitar playing, songwriting, onstage moves, how she talks in interviews, her look. She probably eats breakfast cereal in a cool way, too. Being a star was ...

When a Northern Finnish child picked up a kantele mostly to annoy her sister, no one imagined she would become one of the instrument’s boldest contemporary voices.

One of the world’s foremost session and rhythm players, Ella Feingold, explains what most people get wrong about Buckley as a ...

Producer and UK garage legend MJ Cole charts his journey from classical music to the club and unpicks the production behind the genre-defining Sincere ...

Don’t let the track list fool you. There may be nine different songs with nine different titles, but Bruno Mars functionally made the same song for 31 minutes in his latest endeavor, “The ...

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