Guitar builder, fixer aims to keep chords ringing true When a 9-year-old Neil Smith got his first guitar – a secondhand Danelectro – he didn’t play it immediately. Instead, he took it apart.

Guitar lessons: The most common chord progression is known as a ‘12-bar blues’, which, predictably is 12 bars long (eight-, 16- and 24-bar versions are common, too). What the name doesn’t tell you is ...

Isbell sympathizes with newbie players struggling with them, but discusses why they’re a vital songwriting tool ...

Aberdeen pastor, guitar-builder accepts changing chord of life . Originally published November 29, 2015 at 8:13 pm Updated November 29, 2015 at 8:55 pm ...

Aspiring guitar builder Jukka Sollasvaara and one of his friends have built what might just be the world’s heaviest acoustic guitar in a madcap experiment that swaps out tonewoods for concrete ...

To create a guitar diagram in it, go to the Reference menu and click on the Chord builder option. This will open up a fretboard window. In this window, select Guitar instrument and choose notes ...

Playing the guitar to a cheering audience is everyone’s secret desire and why most pick up the instrument in the first place.

It’s a semi-modular MIDI chord generator that functions based on the principles of tonal harmony, so you have a root and can trigger chords that move away from this in degrees of the scale (III, ...

Legendary guitar builder Wayne Charvel lost his workshop and home in the Camp Fire. His building partner and son Michael tells us the story. Among the homes lost to the still-raging Camp Fire was ...

For me, Power Chord really stands out from the pack because it's not trying to be Slay the Spire, or Monster Train, or Darkest Dungeon, or like many, many indies a mix of these three.