Hello, and welcome to my new column for Guitar World! Over the course of these lessons, I will be sharing and demonstrating my approaches to rhythm playing, soloing, slide guitar, open tunings and ...

There's huge inspiration in your choice of acoustic and electric guitar, effects pedals and guitar amps. Even the guitar pick you choose plays a part, but before all that there's the huge world of ...

Does anyone remember tuning before smartphones? In the era in which I started learning to play guitar (middle millennial here), there were these little electronic tuners. Remember those? To be honest, ...

When it comes to learning or playing the guitar, the tuning pegs are small and highly important components of your guitar. A guitar is of no use if you do not use guitar tuner and guitar tuning pegs ...

For more than four decades, Willie Nelson's faithful guitar tuner, "Tunin' Tom" Hawkins, was as much a part of the legend ...

If you play guitar or another string instrument, one of the thankless tasks you do before you play—and in between songs—is getting your instrument in tune. There are several ways you can do this: You ...

No matter how dextrous your fingers might be, if your best guitar is out of tune, you won’t sound great. Experienced musicians can often tune by ear, but even with years of experience under your belt, ...

When I reviewed the original Roadie Guitar Tuner back in 2016, I loved that it was easy to use and offered a database of alternate tunings, but wished it supported bass guitars. With the Roadie 2 ...

One of the oldest uses for smartphones was using the microphone to tune your guitar. Granted, it wasn’t all that great but it did work in a pinch. These days, guitar tuner apps are far better than ...