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

“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 ...

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 ...

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

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

The 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction dazzled with Cher, rocked for Ozzy and offered a Foreigner surprise. Here's a ...

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 ...

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 ...

At 78, Gilmour "can still drip hi-def liquid mercury from his fretboard", said Helen Brown ... with "beautifully floated high notes". In the "Serenade" from "Don Giovanni", "each syllable is ...