From The Doobie Brothers to The Smiths, James Brown to Metallica, 7th barre chords are fundamental for playing with more color and sophistication ...

If there’s one thing you can do to take your songwriting to the next level, it’s getting to grips with new chords. Use our acoustic guitar chord charts - from basic open ... like strumming and deep, ...

New diffusion AI models that make songs from scratch are complicating our definitions of authorship and human creativity.

Dire Straits were one of the most unlikely success stories of the 80s, making 1985’s world-beating Brothers In Arms album before guitarist and leader Mark Knopfler ended the band at the height of ...

With 15 tracks, Black Ice has the longest running time of any AC/DC studio album, just short of an hour, and perhaps a little overlong, with a few songs, such as Money Made and Smash ‘N’ Grab, just ...

How Dire Straits went from the pubs of London to become one of the biggest bands of the 1980s ...

Chart hits are more likely to be ... The earworm here is a guitar riff, but not even the whole riff, just a few notes sliced out of “Janie’s Crying” by Van Halen. So, there’s your ...

In this video I build a bass guitar inspired by a video from the early days of YouTube. You can check out my inspiration for this project here (this is not the original upload, I seem to have lost it) ...

Kiss became superstars with Alive! So let’s break it down: the 75 best albums of 1975, complete with a playlist of key tracks ...

As Billboard ‘s 2005 Week kicks into high gear, find our 100 favorite singles from a huge year in popular music — including ...