Frank Zappa famously proclaimed that “jazz isn’t dead, it just smells funny.” And while that certainly may have been true in the fusion heyday of the 1970s and '80s, there's a younger breed of jazz...
Hey, guitar nerds, it’s Shane, the cigar box guitar guy. Are you planning on crowdfunding for your next album?
I know what you're thinking: "What the hell is a 'near-Led Zeppelin moment'?" Good question.
“Freddie [Mercury] had the whole piece pretty well mapped out, as I remember, but he didn’t have a guitar solo planned," Brian May said.
The capo is to guitars what sugar — or Stevia, if you prefer — is to food. It makes everything sweeter. Musicians started noticing the capo's inherent song-sweetening properties sometime in the...
In a new article, Total Guitar counted down the 10 wealthiest guitar players in the magazine’s home country, the U.K.
Stevie Ray Vaughan released four studio albums, a live album and a Vaughan Brothers album, not to mention enough leftover live and studio material to fill several posthumous albums and a box set.
We all want our guitar solos to stand out, to capture the attention of the listener, to bring the song to a new level.
Our friends at Guitar Nerds have released a new video. This time they’re counting down the top five new Fender guitar for 2017 with a focus on the brand-new American Professional series.
In this clip from Sky Arts’ Guitar Stories series, Mark Knopfler shares the stories of his six favorite six-stringed instruments.
Robert Baker is back with a new video in which he demonstrates five iconic rock guitar licks every player should know.
They’ve been practicing hard all year ‘round, so it’s time to reward your guitar pickin’ pals with tasty holiday goods. The good news is, nothing on this list will cost an arm or a leg to keep...
What’s more difficult to play than single-string riffs? Double-string riffs.
In this new video (posted to the Interwebs July 5), Mark from Guitar Nerds, a U.K.-based website for guitar fans (and nerds, we reckon), counts down the top 10 Fender Stratocaster facts that you...
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