Become an acoustic polymath and be comfortable in any musical company with this lesson in styles spanning boygenius to ...

When the bridge hits at 2:13, it sounds like the bass guitar drops out. “What you may think is guitar is actually me strumming chords on the bass. Live, if I'm feeling frisky, I may kick on a ...

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

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 ...

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?

The songs on this Melbourne indie pop band’s third album may be effortlessly catchy, but one can detect new emotional and ...

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 ...

Herbie Flowers, who played the bass on Syracuse University alumnus Lou Reed ’s 1972 hit “Walk on the Wild Side,” died ...

I’ve always wanted to learn to play the piano. A good while ago I bought a Casio MIDI keyboard intending to do just that, but after a few YouTube videos about c ...

Dean Wareham has a Google Alert set for his first full-time band, Galaxie 500, named after a friend’s vintage Ford. With ...