The Grammy winner popularized the upside-down tuning in funk guitar and it has been a pillar of her sound. Now, her new La ...

Kim Thayil has dismissed a review that called his guitar playing “sloppy” while detailing how his love for alternate tunings saw him disregard all he knew about shapes and scales. In an extensive ...

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 ...

Everything starts with tuning; and if you're a guitarist it's a burden you have to accept. Pianists? They have it easy! Set and forget. But every time you pick your guitar up to play you'll need to ...

More than a decade ago, a startup launched on Kickstarter to fund an automated guitar tuner called the Roadie. Now the company has returned to the platform with the smarter, faster, smoother and more ...

Tuning a guitar is one of the most important skills every guitarist should learn. If your guitar is out of tune, even the best songs will sound off. If you’re a beginner, don’t worry, tuning your ...

Learn the most important lesson of all here! When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The diagram above shows the six strings as they're ...

Yesterday, Gibson Guitars released its self-tuning Robot Guitar. It'll add about $800 to the price of a new guitar (it's available only on mid-range guitars with street prices over $2,000), and will ...

It’s every guitar player’s nightmare: you step onstage, strike your rock-god pose, triumphantly strum the first chord of a song–and discover that your guitar is out of tune. A new line of instruments ...

As a once and forever 15-year-old boy, I find few words in the English language provide me with quite the same frisson as robot. Sure there's rocket, monkey, explosion—all highly ranked in my stunted ...

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 ...