So to tune from standard tuning, drop the first, second and sixth strings down a tone and then raise the second string by a semitone. Molly Tuttle uses this tuning for her track Take the Journey. It’s ...

Note the slash chords’ alternative bass notes here (notes shown after the / mark), giving a subtly different feel to basic major chords. For example, D5 and A/C# is the kind of move you’ll hear in ...

Flowers recorded over 20,000 sessions and his distinctive jazz-informed bass heavily features on Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild ...

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A celebrated session musician who appeared on a host of classic rock albums, he made his most lasting mark with his ...

Once you've filled your boots with DADGAD or double drop D, why not turn your attention to an open tuning that is very ...

Coming down the mountain! That’s how Perry Farrell begins “Mountain Song,” Jane’s Addiction’s alternative national anthem.

City Lights' is the second album from Blur guitarist Graham Coxon and former Pipette Rose Elinor Dougall, and they go in ...

From the guitarron and the requinto to the guiro and the tololoche, these are some of the instruments responsible for música ...

Culling together songs written from different periods of their lives, the alt-rock trio wade deeper into heaviness and ...

Bass guitar might be the instrument Paul McCartney was known for in The Beatles, but he was also a lead guitarist for the band. How many lead parts did he play?

Canadian indie Rock band, Mother Mother, performed at the Wilma Theater to a sold-out crowd of mostly 18–25-year-olds who ...