Jacob Collier taught me how to play his 5-string guitar – but I learned so much more than just new shapes and tunings

Collier never learned on a six-string. Instead, he cut his teeth on a four-string tenor guitar. Then he had the audacity to ...
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Coated vs uncoated guitar strings: What’s the difference?

Unsure whether coated or uncoated strings are right for you and your guitar? We unpick the difference in sound, feel, tuning, price and more When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Jared James Nichols shows you how to build a guitar solo to a powerful climax

We began with the breakdown section, over which I play simple lines over the D - F - G chord progression before moving into ...
The Royal Gazette

‘Classical technique’ on display at Guitar Festival

Jerremiah Smith took the audience back to the early 1960s with his performance in the Bermuda Guitar Festival on Saturday. First up was music by the “father of bossa nova”, Antonio Carlos Jobim.
Los Angeles Times

The Hawaiian steel guitar changed American music. Can one man keep that tradition alive?

KAILUA, Hawaii — Quincy Cortez plucks at a slim black box laid across his legs, his fingers flashing silver. Steel strings twang with each pull from the metal rings — wearable guitar picks — adorning ...
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Leslie West revealed the picking techniques that made him a singularly great guitar hero to Eddie Van Halen, Randy Rhoads and Pete Townshend

“I’m no great guitarist technically,” Leslie West once said, “but you wanna know why people remember me? If you take a hundred players and put them in a room, 99 of ’em are gonna sound the same. “The ...
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Billy Strings' journey from learning guitar in a trailer with his dad to winning a Grammy

This segment was rebroadcast on Nov. 29, 2021. Find that audio here. For Billy Strings, accepting a Grammy Award at 28 years old feels unreal. The Michigan-born musician says winning Best Bluegrass ...
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Matteo Mancuso: “It is not a new thing to be incredibly good at guitar… People want to hear something original other than being good at your instrument”

Believe the hype. Mancuso's debut LP, The Journey, is further evidence that he is the maestro guitar has been waiting for. Steve Vai, Joe Bonamassa, Tosin Abasi… They saw this coming. When you ...