Altered tunings can be one of the most fun and rewarding elements associated with the guitar. Specifically, the ability to change the tuning of some or all strings in the pursuit of finding new chord ...

Guitar skills: If there’s one thing you'll need to do to take your songwriting to the next level, it’s getting to grips with new chords. Use our acoustic guitar chord charts - from basic open chords ...

ELECTRIC GUITAR WEEK: As the first tuning you learn when you start playing the guitar, ‘standard’ EADGBE tuning should be familiar to most guitarists. Any change to these notes is known as an altered ...

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 ...

To a guitarist, the humble capo is nothing new. For most working players it is an essential part of the musician’s tool kit; a nifty little device that clamps down on the fretboard, allowing for a ...

Derek Trucks, who played with Buddy Guy and Bob Dylan before he was a teenager, has enjoyed a storied career. From those early days — when Guy taught him a key lesson about the value of turning down ...