Kim Thayil has dismissed a review that called his guitar playing “sloppy” while detailing how his love for alternate tunings saw him disregard all he knew about shapes and scales. In an extensive ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Steve Jennings/Getty Images Ani DiFranco may not have tried every guitar tuning, but ...

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 ...

If you're a guitar player who likes to experiment with alternative tunings, you know what a hassle it can be to retune your guitar every time you switch from one tuning to another, especially if ...

Any musician worth his/her credit knows that accurate tuning is a given. It's a crucial starting point to playing any instrument at home, on the job, in the studio, or on the road, and an ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Q. I'm bored off the standard EADGBE tuning, what other tunings sound good? A. It's sometimes ...

As a once and forever 15-year-old boy, I find few words in the English language provide me with quite the same frisson as robot. Sure there's rocket, monkey, explosion—all highly ranked in my stunted ...