Guitar strings may be an afterthought for some musicians, but the truth is that guitar strings are fundamental to the enjoyment of your guitar. When you play your guitar, you interact with your strings using both hands. You feel your fingers sliding over them as you play your next note or...
In other words, the major 3rd interval (G to B strings) eases an otherwise severe strain on the player’s wrist and fingers that it would take to achieve runs and chords on the larger guitar neck. If not for the guitar strings order as we know it, "Cowboy Chords" would be virtually...
All guitarists know that new strings sound better than old ones. As they are played, strings deteriorate due to a number of factors that include fatigue and surface corrosion. New strings are often said to sound brighter and have better sustain. This translates into having different ('better'...
Why do the lower strings of a piano have another wire tightly coiled around them? Why do the same notes plucked on a banjo and on a guitar have distinctly different sounds? Why do we say in String Theory that the higher dimensions are curled up? Why doesn't an acoustic guit...
"Give me some of that vibe." Over the course of the next couple of weeks, I started recording "Grateful" and trying to do some more weird effected stuff and some electronic pop-influenced stuff. The lyrics are about my girlfriend. Over the course of our relationship, I would...
. "When we first came to New York we did this thing called the Murray The K Show [in 1967] and you had to do four shows in a day. And I only had the one guitar so I had to break it and fix it four times in a day. In the end it was more glue and string than guitar."...
It wasn't until I started hearing and seeing one of my most favorite celebrities and humans, Sarah Jessica Parker posting about it on the first day of each new month that I finally decided to do some digging. Sometimes she posts an extremely peaceful video whispering "rabbit, rabbit." ...
It wasn't until I started hearing and seeing one of my most favorite celebrities and humans, Sarah Jessica Parker posting about it on the first day of each new month that I finally decided to do some digging. Sometimes she posts an extremely peaceful video whispering "rabbit, rabbit." ...
It wasn't until I started hearing and seeing one of my most favorite celebrities and humans, Sarah Jessica Parker posting about it on the first day of each new month that I finally decided to do some digging. Sometimes she posts an extremely peaceful video whispering "rabbit, rabbit." ...