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. That way, you'll become obsessed with it because it makes you feel ...

“Yes, Tom [Petty] was not a perfect person. Neither am I. Neither are you, you know,” guitarist Mike Campbell says, a bit testily, during a recent phone interview about his new memoir Heartbreaker.

Gavin Heaney Bouncing offbeat bursts of chordal horns, guitar and keys counterpoint walking bass lines as the high hat skips ...

Like a jagged, knife-edgy guitar that was distinctive. Now, John, was that the one we got on the CMJ charts with ... But it’s a two-chord song, which makes it kind of bulletproof.

Aerosmith were destined for stardom from the start, but it took them until their third album, 1975’s Toys In The Attic, to get there. In 2015, on the album’s 40th anniversary, singer Steven Tyler, ...

And it was for singer Stebin Ben.Ben won the moment he stepped onto the stage in his all-black drip—sleeveless jacket, tailored pants, heeled shoes, a tilted hat, a Patek Philippe Nautilus watch, a ...

Brooke Combe speaks to us from her home in Edinburgh during a rare break from tour rehearsals for her recently released debut album Dancing At ...

It spent five weeks at the top of the R&B chart and enjoys a lasting ... There’s also Wolf’s fuzzy guitar lick, his strumming what we now call power chords, and Ike Turner’s rocking piano.

Learning to read chord charts from a lead sheet changed my life - and it can do the same for you. This class is your first ...

From The Doobie Brothers to The Smiths, James Brown to Metallica, 7th barre chords are fundamental for playing with more color and sophistication ...

Use our acoustic guitar chord charts - from basic open chords to the daddy of altered tunings and many points between - to build your musical vocabulary and hone your own voice on the acoustic guitar.

Albums from Elton John, Tracy Chapman, Mary J. Blige and the cast of “Hamilton” are among the new inductees to the National ...