Dolly Parton made the tiny terz guitar famous, and Martin’s 5-28 brings the short-scale classic back with a bright, chiming voice and surprisingly versatile playability ...

The address is the former home of Sir Paul’s childhood friend Ian James, where the musician has recalled first holding a guitar, learning his first chords and is known to have listened to the rock and ...

The augM9 sounded charming when played on the keyboard, but the low end sounds muddy when put into a song. When layering ...

BUY Learning to play an instrument tends to follow a well-worn path: get to grips with technique, play your first notes or ...

Nice to meet you, I'm Hanachichi.Upon retiring, I bought a guitar for the first time in 40 years."I used to be able to play, ...

Tedeschi Trucks Band plays blues and soul classics while sharing stories about their musical roots.

For guitar players, an element that is essential to recording as well as writing a song is choosing the right guitar for the job. I love a lot of different guitars – all guitars, really! – but ...

Because guitarists are limited by fretboard geometry, it pays to get creative with chord voicings – as Jimi Hendrix and Nile ...

Coldplay’s “Yellow” remains one of the songs most closely associated with the band’s rise to international fame. Released ...

Using Driving Towards the Daylight as an example, the blues maestro shows how a change of key can change your perspective and give your chord work new life ...

Strumming a few chords is all it takes to open up a world of possibilities for new songs, and here the Blackberry Smoke frontman shows us how ...

Mr. Sulzberger is the publisher of The New York Times. This story is part of a series marking 175 years of eyewitness journalism from The New York Times. Read more here. Above my desk hangs an ...