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 ...

Before you start bashing out your first riff, your guitar must be in tune. Here’s everything you need to know about tuning your guitar ...

There's huge inspiration in your choice of acoustic and electric guitar, effects pedals and guitar amps. Even the guitar pick you choose plays a part, but before all that there's the huge world of ...

December 24, 2005 For most people, tuning a guitar takes three to five minutes and when they have finished, the final result is not very good. These people will love the Transperformance self-tuning ...

If you're a guitar player who likes to experiment with alternative tunings, you know what a hassle it can be to retune your guitar every time you switch from one tuning to another, especially if ...

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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, ...

Guitar enthusiasts know that whammy bars are a lot of fun to use, but often a real pain to maintain. Unless your axe is equipped with some extra (read: pricey) bells and whistles, heavy usage of solo ...