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. Credit: Jack Robinson/Hulton Archive/Getty Images The acoustic guitar remains one of the most popular instruments among ...

Open tunings are very popular with slide players as they offer the facility of playing triads with one finger (or slide), giving convenient groups of notes with which to build licks and patterns. In ...

When people discuss slide guitar, they often presume the guitar will be open-tuned to a chord. This is fair enough as it’s a time-honoured method that allows a lot of flexibility. However, unless ...

Like the Woody Guthrie of the 21st century, Jay Farrar’s timing for music as medicine is tediously perfect with the new Agent Orange Presidency, and as torn a country as this 38-year-old privileged ...