Whether you’re a beginner or a blues guitarist, strap your guitar with the best strings to enhance your sound and maintain quality over time The Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When ...

Tuning a guitar is one of the most important skills every guitarist should learn. If your guitar is out of tune, even the best songs will sound off. If you’re a beginner, don’t worry, tuning your ...

How often should guitar strings be changed? There isn’t a simple answer. Because strings wear out at different rates based on your environment, how you play and even your body chemistry, I can’t tell ...

Your guitar’s tone lives and dies by its strings, and caring for them can make all the difference. From daily wipe-downs to knowing when to swap them out, small habits extend lifespan and keep your ...

What if the strings of a guitar could float, untethered, held in place by nothing but invisible magnetic forces? It sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but Mattias Krantz outlines how he turned ...

When you just pluck a guitar string with no movement in the real world, it has no articulation, and it soon gets pretty boring if you just play notes that way. Playing the note harder or softer is ...