Too tightly? Too loosely? Two fingers or three? What angle? What pressure? Here’s everything every guitarist needs to know for perfect pickin’ ...

The first time you strum a guitar and feel the strings bite back against your fingers, something shifts. You are no longer just listening to music. You are inside it, part of the vibration traveling ...

From playing with one-stringed ukuleles to learning chords from a book, some of history's greatest rock stars skipped music class and went straight to playing.

Singing with a group of women brought back the nourishment that only making music with a group of people you’re in step with can provide Avowed ukulele lover George Harrison once wrote in a note to a ...

The 26th Annual International Guitar Night tour will bring four International Artists to Montana as part of its nationwide run. Performances are scheduled for February 9 at the Wachholz College Center ...

Fingerstyle playing demands individual note clarity and tonal separation that strumming doesn't require. Unlike strumming's broad motions across all strings, fingerstyle assigns specific fingers to ...

In the summer of 1964 a young British rock band called the High Numbers released their debut single “Zoot Suit,” and watched it disappear without a trace. The supremely-forgettable song was written by ...

Guitar skills: Notice that a few of these chords feature a D on the 3rd fret of the second string. This gives a flow to the chords when they appear in sequence. If you don’t want this on every single ...

I just needed to learn the finger- picking patterns, and Hal Kinnamon, who was an instructor here on Kauai, taught me. He had a big impact on my playing. Hal taught me the basics, the foundation on ...

Joe Sandheinrich, a Des Peres resident, is searching for a rare talent on the local music scene - someone who can teach him how to play the 15 vintage ukuleles in his collection. If such a person is ...