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 ...

Use the first three fingers of your picking hand to play the melody/chords on the second and third strings. The acoustic guitar has origins stretching back centuries, and this example is inspired by ...

We try three innovative approaches from MusicNomad to investigate how they might conquer a major cause of fret buzz 30 essential acoustic guitar chords, with charts Jim covers other possible causes ...

This week on Global Notes we take you back to 1950’s Congo (the DRC today), for what many considered the Golden Age of African acoustic guitar music. Influences for what was known as Katanga gui ...

Instead it was a clever fake, part of a shipment of 85 guitars seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents at Washington Dulles International Airport earlier this month. The collection ...

I MAKE GUITARS, THREE STRING GUITARS CALLED CIGAR ... I HAD A WOMAN RECENTLY JUST COULDN’T BELIEVE YOU COULD PLAY 17 CHORDS AND LEARN IN ONE MINUTE. AND ALONG THE WAY, IN TRUE ARTIST FORM ...

Aurora resident Victor Martinez and rock guitar legend Jimi Hendrix have something musical in common -both have played cigar box guitars. While Hendrix is said to have been so desperate to play ...

Wooden debris harvested from demolished or renovated structures is transformed into custom-made instruments at Mr. Kelly's Carmine Street Guitars. He calls his unusual materials "the bones of Old ...