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ELECTRIC GUITAR WEEK: As the first tuning you learn when you start playing the guitar, ‘standard’ EADGBE tuning should be familiar to most guitarists. Any change to these notes is known as an altered ...

Standard guitar tuning, in which the strings are tuned, low to high, to E A D G B E, has been extensively explored and mined for riffs, licks and chord voicings by generations of guitarists. While its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ani DiFranco may not have tried every guitar tuning, but listening to her unique brand of dynamic and percussive folk/punk/rock ...

Zach began modifying guitar effects in the mid 2000’s but started building his own circuits after diving deep into how guitar effects worked. Mythos Pedals took a few years to get off the ground but ...

The humble capo has graced the gig bags of performing musicians for decades, clamping down to change the overall key of a guitar in a single, swift motion. Now, a new take on the capo opens up whole ...

Q. I'm bored off the standard EADGBE tuning, what other tunings sound good? A. It's sometimes easy to feel uninspired when playing in standard guitar tuning (EADGBE). Tuning a guitar a different way ...

San Francisco-based Senior Contributing Editor Joe Gore has recorded with Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, Tracy Chapman, Courtney Love, Marianne Faithfull, Les Claypool, Flea, DJ Shadow, John Cale, and many ...