When the bridge hits at 2:13, it sounds like the bass guitar drops out. “What you may think is guitar is actually me ...

While these six chords are great choices for classic rock styles, the truth is they're useful for all kinds of players to learn. Note the slash chords’ alternative bass notes here (notes shown ...

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

A normal C major chord is C-E-G, but you can easily change it to E-G-C, called the 'first inversion', or G-C-E, the 'second inversion' - the bass note has changed ... where almost all of my guitar ...

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?

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Have you ever wondered what professors do in their free time? English professors Derek Ross, Susan Youngblood and Sunny ...