Teachers told her to play the masters instead of writing songs, but she was determined to create the sounds she heard in her head ...

At first glance, a left-handed guitar appears to be simply a flipped version of a right-handed guitar, and in many ways, that's true. However, this mirror-image relationship creates several critical ...

When Swedish metal icons Meshuggah unleashed their mighty, low down, single-string riffs on Nothing in 2002, the meaning of the word heavy was henceforth redefined. From then, the 8-string guitar has ...

Acoustic and classical guitars look very similar, both made of wood, both with six strings, and both with the familiar guitar shape with a curved body and long neck. But there are key differences that ...

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Queen legend Brian May has teamed up with Gibson for the new limited-edition SJ-200 12-string acoustic guitar. A run of only 100 of the guitars has been produced. The SJ-200 in 12-String form is rare, ...

Queen‘s Brian May has teamed up with Gibson to launch a brand-new limited edition 12-string acoustic guitar. The Brian May SJ-200 12-String acoustic guitar from Gibson Custom was made in close ...

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 veteran singer-songwriter Denison Witmer has been a friend and collaborator of Sufjan Stevens since 2005, and now the two of them have made a new song together. Stevens produced Witmer's new song ...

“The process of music is from brain to someone’s ear, basically. The less that gets in the way of that little journey, the better,” Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones once said. “Strings are the link ...

The next time you find yourself in the market for a high-end, boutique electric guitar — as we all sometimes do, right? — resist the urge to run to Reverb.com or gallop to Guitar Center. You might ...