One of the great benefits of playing 7- and 8-string guitars in various tunings is that they continually inspire me to discover cool and unusual chords and voicings. A great examp ...

Lower tunings lose tension: Every semitone you drop a string removes roughly 11% of its tension, so a whole step down feels much looser. Move to a heavier gauge to bring the feel and intonation back.

Irish rock band Fontaines D.C. announced today that their manager and longtime friend, Trevor Dietz, has died at the age of 47. His cause of death has not yet been made public, but the band wrote on ...

Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan Division of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Kita 13 Nishi ...

Behind the excitement of the 1948 unveiling of the new small Morris designed by Alec Issigonis lay a story of disappointment. There was a fashionably American-inspired monocoque body design, ...

Sharp notes and flat notes are the black notes on a standard piano keyboard, and they are at the same time exactly the same, and completely the opposite, of each other. They are the same, in that ...

Seattle Mariners Executive Vice President & General Manager of Baseball Operations Justin Hollander announced today the ...

One scale that goes from C to B, with five equivalent flats and sharps in between, makes up pretty much all the melodies in Western music – but how did we get to these 12 notes? All melodies and ...