If there’s one thing you can 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 to the daddy of altered ...

“I actually wrote the riff on piano and then Paul Kossoff transposed the chords to guitar, and he did a helluva job, because that’s not always easy.” Paul Rodgers wrote the lyrics and when ...

So you’ve finally decided to take the plunge and start learning guitar, or maybe you’re buying for someone who wants to? Whatever it is, to prepare for a lifelong journey of creative fulfillment, ...

Slap bass arrived in the late ‘60s – and just like every other technique for bass guitar ... Let's look at some diatonic double-stops. Diatonic means you are playing chords only in one ...

playing chords, riffs and licks in open position lets those single-coil pickups twang! Finally, surf-rock is a style where you can go wild with your guitar’s whammy bar! We’re looking at three ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The original Guitar Hero debuted in November 2005, but the franchise has been in a lull for a long time. The last game, Guitar Hero Live ...

So while the horns basked in the limelight, guitarists had to make do strumming chords and comping in the background. But electric amplification changed everything for the role of the guitar in jazz.

Like Unicode, but for music. One day.

Review: Jonathan Watson aka Smoove sees his version of "one of the greatest posse cuts of all time" - or so say reissuers Wack Records - re-pressed for the masses to hear. One half of the British funk ...