Open G tuning is an alternate tuning favored by Keith Richards and requires the guitar to be tuned to D-G-D-G-B-D. To retune ...

Bassist Phil Lesh, a founding member of the Grateful Dead, passed away recently at the age of 84. Phil was one of the ...

There are various ways in which we can approach any one aspect of chords and their extensions, but for this feature I’ve ...

Unlike many popular genres at the time, funk put more emphasis on the rhythm and groove resulting from the interplay between bass and drums, than the melody, chord progressions or arrangements ...

French horns, and bass-horns called "semi-brass monsters" were occasional innovations, but we learn that on more than one occasion these instruments "did not chord with the flutes." The use of ...

North London songwriter-producer embraces focus on rhythm, open tuning, Tubescreamer clones and following their instincts on ...

Soon, they had enlisted two more U.G.A. students, Mike Mills and Bill Berry ... “They were a real band with real songs with ...

How the musical material is arranged - the choice of which instruments play the melody, chords, bass line or other parts ... use two notes a fifth apart (like C and G, G and D, or F and C).

“Yeah the G&L basses and Trace Elliott amps ... “I had a lot of space in Porno for Pyros to play and change the chords. I ...

In this passage, there’s only the drums, a bass and his voice ... Walt Disney’s “Cinderella,” but belting clashing chords that I know he would describe as incredibly complex: “a minor G third, with an ...

Recently, we played a show in Cleveland, and some guy in a Godzilla costume showed up and started going nuts in the pit,” Lord Kaiju, the singer and guitarist for the death metal band Oxygen Destroyer ...