Perhaps the most iconic instrument in modern rock is the guitar. It's really just a bunch of strings stretched across a board, which you can strum to make awesome tunes, thanks to the physics of waves ...

From his heart to his hands, Gabriel Tenorio is always making music. “I can’t stop hearing it,” he said. “I can’t stop ...

In early 2023, bluegrass phenom Billy Strings paid Willie Nelson a visit at the latter’s Pedernales Studio. The two were going to cut a duet of a song Strings had just written, “California Sober,” ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about music, and why you buy the tunes you do. If you’ve ever played guitar, you’ve probably seen a pack of Ernie Ball ...

Learn the best reasons why you need to learn classical guitar as a starting point for your musical journey, if you want to go ...

This segment was rebroadcast on Nov. 29, 2021. Find that audio here. For Billy Strings, accepting a Grammy Award at 28 years old feels unreal. The Michigan-born musician says winning Best Bluegrass ...

For decades, Max Cavalera (Soulfly, Cavalera Conspiracy, ex-Sepultura, Nailbomb, Killer Be Killed, Go Ahead and Die) has been known to equip his guitars with only four strings, but why? The obvious ...

Electric guitar pickups rely on steel strings interfering with a magnetic field, the changes in which are picked up with coils of wire. That doesn’t work with nylon strings, because they don’t tend to ...