‘Dead’ notes are tiny, muted extra notes that a bass player plays by hitting a string and dampening the note on the fretboard ...

Brian Wilson has always been focused on building songs through layers of instruments, but he knew this guitarist belonged in ...

“Sort of in the centre of the fretboard… the one, the two and the five. I think that’s sort of my signature," he says of the three-note inversions that form a key part of some of his most ...

The new collection – simply called The Collection – contains 19 songs, including both the original and the 1985 remake of ...

This in-depth masterclass in the fusion icon’s virtuoso style is for moderate to advanced players ready to level up their legato chops, outside playing and minor chord vocabulary ...

The way he bent the notes and came down the fretboard was amazing, too. “At the time he was playing a Fender [Bass] VI, which I’d never seen before – they were terrible! I couldn’t even ...

The basic idea is intriguing: take a conventional guitar design and replace the fretboard with a rotating ... you can use all of the standard strings for a bass and treble guitar, plus a few ...

allowing you to glide between notes easily, without the string noise you’d get with roundwounds. Tapewound - Tapewound strings tend to have a nylon coating over them, taking that mellow vintage tone ...

Walking us through the specifications of the offset bass, Mark says, "It has a Jaguar body, a Jazz Bass neck, C-style, rosewood fretboard, pearloid pickguard ... In the beginning, it was all ...

You could argue that the American Ultra II is a blasphemy against the purity of Leo Fender's first masterpiece – or you could ...

A few notes of the bass line of “Hollywood Swinging” from Robert “Kool ... The disease has affected his legs and mobility, ...