Looking back many hundreds of years, early lutes were fretless, but they began getting frets from the late 16th century. These frets subdivide a fretboard so a string can be pressed anywhere between ...

Learning to play guitar is tough. It takes time, dedication and practice. Lots of practice. Fortunately, technology is taking the edge off a little and offering more hope of success to those who might ...

Learning how to play a guitar can be a pain. First you have to buy a guitar, then wear your fingers to the bone while you’re taking lots of lessons. Then you have to practice a lot before you can make ...

Uneven frets are a common issue with our guitars, but MusicNomad has come up with different ways to empower players to deal with it themselves When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

This Chili Peppers-style riff is based on a Bm chord played with a first finger barre on the top three strings. Hit the strings with a strong attack and cut off the chord by quickly lifting your ...

Only 80s kids will remember actual hair metal with the meedley-mees way up high on the fret board, and in the 80s, fret boards got longer. Twenty one or twenty two frets on a guitar weren’t good ...

When Swedish metal icons Meshuggah unleashed their mighty, low down, single-string riffs on Nothing in 2002, the meaning of the word heavy was henceforth redefined. From then, the 8-string guitar has ...

For The New York Times for Kids, the photographer Christopher Payne visited the Martin Guitars factory to see how humans and machines make music. Credit... Supported by Photographs by Christopher ...