Before you start bashing out your first riff, your guitar must be in tune. Here’s everything you need to know about tuning ...

Getting your guitar perfectly in tune is the foundation of great music-making. From standard EADGBE to creative alternate tunings, knowing the right tools and techniques makes a huge difference.

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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, ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. I took ...

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, ...

DADGAD is fairly easy tuning to understand because, unlike drop D or open G, its name tells you the notes you’ll be tuning to - which is pretty handy! You’ll be changing your standard tuned guitar’s ...

The Roadie 3 ($129) is the latest automatic guitar tuner from Band Industries, makers of the original Roadie tuner that we reviewed back in 2016, as well as its successor the Roadie 2, which we ...

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 ...