The clarinet cries like a human voice, and in the next moment, it bursts into laughter. Have you ever heard such mysterious ...

The banjo keeps rolling along in 16th notes, the mandolin cuts sharply into the rhythm, and yet, there are no drums anywhere.

A mandolin is stringed instrument that can plays either as a single-note melody instrument or as a chordal instrument when employing a technique called ‘chopping’, where every string are fretted to ...

Audiences can now count bluegrass music as one of Matthew McConaughey's many talents. In his new movie The Rivals of Amziah King (in theaters Aug. 14), McConaughey, 56, strums the mandolin and sings ...

Beato's pick underscores something that might seem counterintuitive—sometimes the simplest songs are the hardest to pull off: "There are actually some big hit songs with only two chords." According to ...

Ranked from easiest to hardest, according to the self-proclaimed karaoke connoisseurs Bridget Everett and Natasha Rothwell. By Mitchell Kuga Steppenwolf in 1968. Henry Diltz/Corbis via Getty Images ...

On October 30, 2023, shortly before my sixty-ninth birthday, I stepped into a music store a few minutes from my house, in the southern suburbs of Milan, to buy a mandolin. At first, I thought that I ...

The Edmonton Oilers were struggling to find consistency. They needed to make a dramatic, season-altering change. Of course, the postgame play list was the place to start. Out was “Focus” by John ...

Can a single chord carry an entire song? It’s no easy feat, but it is possible. Just look at these three one-chord songs that became hefty hits for their makers, found in genres like soul and rap rock ...

Some of the greatest country songs ever written use only three simple chords. In this video, I share a personal selection of 20 3-chord country classics that not only sound great but will also help ...

On first listen, “total euphoria” sounds like the product of eight people playing completely out of sync with one another. The drums enter and exit the mix of their own accord; the guitars speed up ...

The Jazz Mandolin Project will return in 2026 for its first tour in two decades. From Feb. 4-7, the beloved Burlington, Vt.-based outfit formed by genre-bending string master Jamie Masefield will set ...