Every electric guitarist should have a few pedals in their arsenal ... saturated stompbox sounds we know today. Distortion pedals provide more aggressive distortion than overdrive and are ideal ...

Bass Week: As bass players we naturally have to know our chords, and ideally a fair bit about harmony and chord progressions ...

Plenty of players have impressed Malmsteen, but it was a solo violin performance that would have the biggest influence on his ...

As a self-taught musician, Frank Zappa embraced unconventionallity in every bit of his creative process, making his genius a ...

Some of the best advice I received when I decided to take up guitar a few months ago was to pick out a guitar that looks cool ...

A look at the song 'The Fountain of Salmacis' by Genesis, and how the ending was something no other band was trying to do, according to Steve Hackett.

That's the story that the legendarily outspoken guitarist ... the evidence from every night on stage, people going nuts for this thing, this moment, this lick. It's only two chords and 11 minutes ...

The Goo Goo Dolls first filtered into my aural periphery in the December of '95 - through the musical collection of a distant ...

It would frankly be silly at this point not to get Jack Black to release his vocal chords if he’s starring in a movie. Following the viral success of ‘Peaches,’ Black’s gloriously silly ditty sung as ...

quipped guitarist ... So, every single song I wrote made an album. There were no extras. I got 12 songs. That was it. And we ...

I’ve always believed that when we better understand our preferences and personalities, we make smarter choices about ...

Craig Finn does everything from spoken word to singing and holding high notes on his newly released sixth solo album, Always ...