Explore open G tuning: a fresh perspective that reshapes your fretboard and inspired timeless blues and Americana songs

Open G has been embraced by legends including Keith Richards, The Black Crowes and Led Zeppelin. Now it’s your turn to revel ...

Adam Jones on his oddball approach to crafting Tool’s out-of-this-world guitar tones

The guitarist praises Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi for having inspired his own love of drop tunings and evocative tones ...
Wired

School of Rock: The Physics of Waves on Guitar Strings

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 ...
The Washington Post

How a 23-Year-Old Phenom Named Kingfish Became the Future of the Blues

Christone “Kingfish” Ingram was wailing on guitar. Eyes shut and head thrown back in the emblematic pose of the guitar hero in ecstasy, he wrung screaming bent high notes and dense, fluid runs from ...
NPR

Blues musician Buddy Guy shares how he 'accidentally' invented a new guitar sound

Guy was one of the first guitarists to use electronic feedback and distortion. Now, at age 88, he has a cameo in Ryan Coogler's supernatural horror film Sinners. Originally broadcast in 1993. This is ...
Los Angeles Times

Kingfish pushes the blues forward by refusing to hold back: ‘I let my problems out with my guitar’

Described by blues-rock titan and mentor Buddy Guy as “the next explosion of the blues,” 25-year-old Christone “Kingfish” Ingram has wowed fans and critics alike with his incendiary guitar playing, ...