When people talk about playing slide, the conversation often progresses on to open tunings, heavier strings, and a high action. It’s true that these can make things easier and, in some cases such as ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Robert Knight Archive/Redferns Open tunings are very popular with slide players as they ...

ELECTRIC GUITAR WEEK: As the first tuning you learn when you start playing the guitar, ‘standard’ EADGBE tuning should be familiar to most guitarists. Any change to these notes is known as an altered ...

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 ...

Open tunings are very popular with slide players as they offer the facility of playing triads with one finger (or slide), giving convenient groups of notes with which to build licks and patterns. In ...