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These days it’s grown increasingly rarer to find metal bands that play in a standard E tuning. So many bands use seven and eight string guitars to achieve maximum brutality, but even those who stick ...

Getting your guitar perfectly in tune is the foundation of great music-making. From standard EADGBE to creative alternate tunings, knowing the right tools and techniques makes a huge difference.

Doubling simple strummed open chords is another great way to use Nashville tuning. On its own an acoustic guitar could sound ...

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 ...

DADGAD is fairly easy tuning to understand because, unlike drop D or open G, its name tells you the notes you’ll be tuning to - which is pretty handy! You’ll be changing your standard tuned guitar’s ...

No matter how dextrous your fingers might be, if your best guitar is out of tune, you won’t sound great. Experienced musicians can often tune by ear, but even with years of experience under your belt, ...

News from Hypercompact, the software company whose logo has inspired designer Evgeny Skidanov to create one of the most beautiful 3D animations I’ve ever seen. If they had published their app Guitar ...