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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. ELECTRIC GUITAR WEEK: As the first tuning you learn when you start playing the guitar, ‘standard’ ...

Switching from standard tuning to alternate tunings can completely transform your guitar playing, opening up fresh voicings, riffs, and creative possibilities. From open tunings perfect for slide to ...

There's huge inspiration in your choice of acoustic and electric guitar, effects pedals and guitar amps. Even the guitar pick you choose plays a part, but before all that there's the huge world of ...

If you play guitar or another string instrument, one of the thankless tasks you do before you play—and in between songs—is getting your instrument in tune. There are several ways you can do this: You ...

If you're a guitar player who likes to experiment with alternative tunings, you know what a hassle it can be to retune your guitar every time you switch from one tuning to another, especially if ...

Ani DiFranco may not have tried every guitar tuning, but listening to her unique brand of dynamic and percussive folk/punk/rock songs, it can certainly seem that way. What is clear, however, is that ...