The Byrds' founder talked to us about the origins of folk-rock, the allure of 12-string Rickenbackers and his eternal love of ...

Jimi Hendrix was born in 1942 in Seattle. His first touch and introduction with music was when he found an old ukulele which only had one string left. Later on, he bought his first guitar, which ...

Strings describes all of that on this week’s One by Willie, but first, he directs his focus to one of the all-time-great Willie-and-Trigger workouts, “Stay a Little Longer.”The song is an ...

Their songs are not only remarkably impactful but also extremely fun to play! Enough for every guitarist to be at least trying their hands on one Iron Maiden song in their guitar playing lifetime ...

Something like this is subjective - what’s right for one player isn’t necessarily right for the other, but here we’ll look at the key differences between coated and uncoated strings in an objective ...

In the following list, you'll hear examples of slide guitar that range from 1927 to 2002. As always, in a list of only five songs, it's hard to choose whom to include and whom to leave out.

At first, The Beatles tried recording the song as a band (one version had Lennon playing the organ), but nothing sounded right. Finally, producer George Martin suggested that McCartney perform the ...

I believe that almost every guitar you pick has a song in there, even if it's one I've never used. I've used that six-string bass a lot, but that's the only song I've ever written around it.

Genre-blenders Khruangbin may have transitioned from psych-tinged instrumental upstarts to an arena-ready trio with a bulging repertoire and a Grammy nomination to boot – but guitarist Mark Speer ...

"I never play lead guitar, so one time, that was probably 10 years ago, one of the strings broke down and then the other one broke down and I didn't give a shit about replacing them, again ...

It doesn't matter how well-honed your guitar chops are, the way your instrument is set up will have a huge effect on how challenging it is to play. And that's a very individual thing; many of us ...

Accompanied only by Strings’ guitar, the guys harmonized beautifully on a song about making positive changes in one’s life. “I wrote this song Thursday, on the bus on the ride down here ...