Tuning a guitar is essential for getting the best sound and enjoying playing. For beginners, it can be a little tricky, but ...

They’re a stubborn old lot, guitarists. Though we live in a world where a salvo of superb software can grant access to some of the greatest amplifiers in history, virtual effects rigs that could ...

RECORDING WEEK 2024: They’re a stubborn old lot, guitarists. Though we live in a world where a salvo of superb software can grant access to some of the greatest amplifiers in history, virtual effects ...

These days it’s grown increasingly rarer to find metal bands that play in a standard E tuning. So many bands use seven and eight string guitars to achieve maximum brutality, but even those who stick ...

The humble capo has graced the gig bags of performing musicians for decades, clamping down to change the overall key of a guitar in a single, swift motion. Now, a new take on the capo opens up whole ...

It’s every guitar player’s nightmare: you step onstage, strike your rock-god pose, triumphantly strum the first chord of a song–and discover that your guitar is out of tune. A new line of instruments ...

Does anyone remember tuning before smartphones? In the era in which I started learning to play guitar (middle millennial here), there were these little electronic tuners. Remember those? To be honest, ...

The Grammy winner popularized the upside-down tuning in funk guitar and it has been a pillar of her sound. Now, her new La ...

Our Jan. 11 story about the Performer self-tuning system for solid-body electric guitars focused on how the device was developed and how it works. But it also included the observation, offered by the ...

If you're in a pinch, and if you've misplaced your guitar tuner, and if you have a gig coming up like right now (yes, that's a lot of ifs), you can now ask Google for help get your guitar in tune. The ...