This new smart guitar we've come across uses LEDs on the fretboard along with a full-featured app to make it easy to visually ...

When you fish by moonlight, you'll have the lake all to yourself. Here's how to catch more largemouth bass at night.

The bass guitar sits at the heart of so many songs you love, yet most players spend years tweaking pickups and pedals before they truly understand the instrument under their fingers. Learning its ...

Music filled with this much pain shouldn’t feel so radiant. After more than a decade toiling away in East Coast punk bands and working odd construction jobs, 2023’s Greg Mendez was both a reinvention ...

There are two distinct halves in the history of music: before 2000 and after 2000. In a few days Paste will stake its claim on who the “greatest guitarist of all time” is, but first we have to talk ...

Trip-hop’s eclectic roots mean the bass can play a variety of important roles, from a heavy dub underpin to a more melodic component. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Growing up in Poughkeepsie, New York, during the 1960s, Charles Roscoe Beck and his brother both started playing guitar in their teens. At one point, it was decided that one of them should play bass, ...

“My guitar is not a thing,” Joan Jett once said. “It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.” The guitar is the most universal instrument, the most primal, and the most expressive. Anybody can pick ...

If you've ever plugged in a bass guitar, a stack of effects pedals and an amp in order to emulate the tone of a classic bassline, you'll know that it's harder to nail it than you might think. Every ...

The guitar is a classic musical instrument, but is there only one type of guitar? We don’t think so! Be it the twelve-string guitars or the fingerstyle guitars; the options are unlimited and diverse.

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