Nikki Sixx said his life would probably have gone differently if he’d started out playing a good-quality guitar. Instead, his ...

Songwriter, actor, author, activist, rock star, jazz freak... Gordon 'Sting’ Sumner is quite the renaissance man. Oh, and he ...

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 ...

Phil Lesh, a founding member of the Grateful Dead whose electric bass playing came to define the psychedelic San Francisco ...

It doesn't matter how well-honed your guitar chops are, the way your instrument is set up will have a huge effect on how ...

Performing alongside guitarist Nile Rodgers, Jerry Barnes has bestowed his deep-pocketed basslines upon Chic since the ...

Preliminary results from an ongoing long-term survey conducted by researchers at William & Mary's Batten School & VIMS ...

There was an outpouring of sadness and gratitude in the Bay Area and across the globe Friday as musicians and music fans paid ...

Schubert: Sonata in G major D. 894, Moments Musicaux D. 780, Fantasy in F minor D. 940 Maurizio Pollini, Daniele Pollini ...

Because you can fit so many strings, you can use all of the standard strings for a bass and treble guitar, plus a few extra like the thickest bass string available and the thinnest guitar strings.

A successful rendering of each piece would require the essential melodic material and bass line which are often ... and to allow use of open strings. Note values have been halved in the first ...

Some people just love the thump of a bass string and want the earth to move when listening to their favorite tunes. Japanese brand Audio-Technica has taken this criticism on board and developed ...