Before you start bashing out your first riff, your guitar must be in tune. Here’s everything you need to know about tuning ...

Does anyone remember tuning before smartphones? In the era in which I started learning to play guitar (middle millennial here), there were these little electronic tuners. Remember those? To be honest, ...

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 ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. I took ...

DADGAD is fairly easy tuning to understand because, unlike drop D or open G, its name tells you the notes you’ll be tuning to - which is pretty handy! You’ll be changing your standard tuned guitar’s ...

December 24, 2005 For most people, tuning a guitar takes three to five minutes and when they have finished, the final result is not very good. These people will love the Transperformance self-tuning ...

One of the oldest uses for smartphones was using the microphone to tune your guitar. Granted, it wasn’t all that great but it did work in a pinch. These days, guitar tuner apps are far better than ...

It’s every guitar player’s nightmare: you step onstage, strike your rock-god pose, triumphantly strum the first chord of a song–and discover that your guitar is out of tune. A new line of instruments ...

Drop tunings open up a world of heavier tones, easier power chords, and creative inspiration for guitarists across rock and metal genres. By lowering the pitch of the lowest string, you can achieve ...