One of the biggest differences between playing acoustic and electric guitar is the force required to bend the strings. A typical medium steel-string set starts at gauge .013, compared to .010 for an ...

Andy Timmons hit the big leagues more than three decades ago when he joined the rock group Danger Danger in the late ’80s. Since then, the talented and creative guitarist has, among other things, ...

Pushing a string up or pulling it down raises the pitch of the note you're playing. This is called string bending. The technique can be used to create singing, vocal-like phrases that other ...

Guitar skills: Combining taps and bends is a great way to create smooth lines, which can sound quite atypical for the guitar and are more akin to a pitch bend of a synth. To make your licks sound as ...

Jazz guitarist John Scofield, who performed with his quartet at the Dakota jazz club Tuesday night, has probably done more than any other musician to influence the stylistic direction of jazz guitar ...

BALTIMORE, Oct. 2 -- -- Jockey Horacio Karamanos hired a new agent last Sunday and within a week Joe French had paid dividends, getting Karamanos the mount on Bending Strings, who galloped from last ...

Rice University scientists have discovered a way to use standard optical microscopes and video cameras to film individual carbon nanotubes, an important advance in nanotechnology imaging that's ...