The phenomenal guitar playing of Joe Satriani needs no introduction, but he also handled bass duties on his first two albums ...

Popular string gauges for the low eighth string (F#) can range from around 0.64 (light) to 0.80 (normal/heavy). The tuning ...

One of the great rhythm guitar virtuosos teaches us how not only to play to the beat but to be the beat itself. This video ...

Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon has a new 1.02 update patch and, as revealed by the patch notes, there’s a little rebalancing going on. There are plenty of bug fixes too but if you’re ...

Kurt Cobain’s acoustic guitar – which is the most expensive ... by Australian businessman Peter Freedman for a whopping $6 million (£4.54 million). Freedman has loaned it to the RCM for ...

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Sliding up and down the bottom end of the frequency spectrum, the plucked bass notes should sound punchy ... be able to hear the slap of the strings, not just a wall of noise, especially when the ...

The foundation of all bass guitar design, the 4-string bass has shaped the sound of popular music since Leo Fender introduced the Fender 'P' Precison model in 1951. With a remarkable range of electric ...

If you need something with a little extra low-end, the 5-string bass is your best way of getting it. Tuned to standard with an additional low B string, the huge sound of this instrument is capable of ...

In essence, therefore, Hendrix strung up his guitars in the same way as most other guitarists, with the bass strings at the top and higher notes at the bottom. The only differences came with the ...

"He played those 21 strings with love ... As Diabaté wrote in the liner notes of the orchestra’s 2006 album, Boulevard De L’Independance, “One of the philosophies of Symmetric is the ...