Porchfest, a community-driven event organized by Historic Athens, celebrates the city’s long-standing musical heritage while ...

Each of the 25 numbered limited edition guitars carries Nigel Tufnel's autograph. Instead of dots the fret markers are upside down letters so the guitarist in a hurry can see what key he is playing in ...

Need a practical way to get comfortable with jazz chords? This single exercise will help you learn to voice major 7, minor 7, dominant 7, and half-diminished chords in every key. Perfect for jazz ...

When it comes to guitar chords, it all begins with basic ones that are called either major (use just the letter of the chord, eg E for E major) or minor (reduced to the letter plus m, eg Em for E ...

B y the time Al Stewart finally achieved his commercial breakthrough with 1976’s “Year of the Cat,” it was the culmination of ...

We’ve all played them, but how many of us can say we know how 7th chords actually work? There’s more to them than meets the eye… In this lesson, we’ll go through the difference between a dominant, ...

Randy Bachman was having severe back pain. His doctor told him that the solution was to stop playing guitar. The main offender was the 1959 Les Paul Standard he’d used to write and record “American ...

Writing a pop song doesn’t have to be the most complicated thing in the world. Since the lion’s share of most songs on the charts can be hammered out with just four chords moved up and down different ...

1 Section of Biomagnetism, Department of Neurology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany 2 Musicological Department (Acoustics/Music Psychology), University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria ...

Dave Grohl is one of the most famous rock musicians on the planet, but even though he's been writing songs with the Foo Fighters for three decades, he still doesn't know the names of most of the ...