How the guitar's standard tuning was decided

This is a story about tracing the history of how the guitar's standard tuning (EADGBE) came to be in its current form, going ...

“My dad could do things on a guitar neck that most people couldn’t, just because of the physical size of his hands”: What set Chuck Berry’s playing apart, according to ...

Chuck Berry Jr. says his father had the biggest hands. Thumb-to-pinky, it was nearly an octave reach, and it made him a natural at a certain technique ...
Limerick LeaderOpinion

SPOTLIGHT: Festival strikes a chord Johnny Fean fans

After Horslips initially broke up in 1980, Fean continued playing, including with the Zen Alligators and Host. In later years ...
ATV Today

Bruce Cockburn revisits the songs that shaped him on new album The Blood of Others

The Canadian singer-songwriter’s 39th album reimagines musical touchstones from gospel and blues to jazz, folk and classic ...
BIOENGINEER

AI Learns to Play the Accordion by Encoding Music Theory into a Knowledge Graph

Researchers built a knowledge graph-guided Transformer that generates coherent accordion music with harmonic validity of 94.8 ...
American Songwriter

3 Rock Songs From the 1960s That Still Inspired Songwriters to Write

The 1960s was an inspiring decade. Indeed, these are three rock songs from the 1960s that can't help but inspire you to write ...

Dave Stewart on his partnership with Annie Lennox and favorite Eurythmics guitar moments

Guitars are up-front and center of new solo album, The Way It Was Before, but as Dave Stewart explains, the guitars were ...
Guitar World on MSN

Neko Engineering unveils the NAM-compatible wireless studio tool that fits in your pocket

The Neko packs NAM tones, recording, stem separation, GenAI features, wireless connectivity, and audio-to-tab features into ...

Chord A, Chord B, Chord C. No time to play the guitar.

Dedicated to Yomogi-sanChiaki Shiraishi wanted to play the guitar.That was all.In the classroom after school, she opens her ...
How-To Geek

6 Windows promises that Microsoft broke

Ismar has been around Windows PCs since the age of three, so friends and family naturally chose him as the resident tech ...
Long Island Press

Daniel Donato: Cosmic country’s flag bearer to play Port Washington

Cosmic country. That’s what guitar-whiz singer-songwriter Daniel Donato calls the type of music he traffics in via Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country, a ...

‘A guy held a knife to my throat and said: play something normal!’ Richard Thompson on crazy crowds, his beloved beret and Sandy Denny’s driving skills

As he releases new album Hippies, Thugs and Heroes, the 77-year-old British folk legend answers your questions about Billy Connolly, Californian fish and chips and whether he nearly joined the Eagles ...