Of all the alternative tunings in use today, open G must be a contender for ‘most popular’. But before we continue, please allow me to be pedantic for a moment and point out that ‘altered’ and ‘open’ ...

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 ...

A new addition to the Roadie 4 app is the String Health & Logger feature. This allows you to log string changes and track the ...

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, ...

Believe it or don’t, until electronic tuners became available in the ‘70s, people used to tune their guitars by ear. Not everybody was that good at it. You even used to hear “out-of-tuneness” on hit ...

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 ...

Following a successful Kickstarter last year, a combination tuner, string winder and metronome is now available to buy. There ...

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 ...

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, ...