The way you wind your new strings to the posts is important – and if not done correctly you'll soon find you guitar going out of tune in the first few bends. There are numerous approaches to ...

A tuner pedal affords you the peace of mind that your strings are not only in tune relative to each other but also to other musicians. It also allows you to silently tune your guitar on stage ...

The 12-string guitar has brought emotion and colour to the world of music. But what are the most iconic songs to showcase the instrument? Read more here.

Decades before solid bodies and electrotrickery redefined the sound of the guitar, it was the wholesome sound of six, simple, singing strings that propelled songs ... Although the tune was written by ...

Unsurprisingly, music lessons were a struggle but, when he was about 17, he saw a strange guitar ... N.M. Twelve-strings are more sensitive than six-strings: They’re difficult to tune and ...

Bass Week: As bass players we naturally have to know our chords, and ideally a fair bit about harmony and chord progressions ...

Electric guitar pickups rely on steel strings interfering with a magnetic field, the changes in which are picked up with coils of wire. That doesn’t work with nylon strings, because they don’t ...