Rocksmith turned practice into a game you played with a real guitar. Then in October 2023 Ubisoft pulled Rocksmith 2014 from every store because its music licences had run out. It came back on Steam...

Chordify is the quickest way to find the chords of a song: paste a YouTube link and the chords scroll along with the music. But its free version stops after a few songs a day, and it isn't the only...

A cab IR is a small WAV file that makes your amp simulator sound like a real speaker cabinet with a microphone in front of it. If your free amp sim or Neural Amp Modeler sounds fizzy, thin or harsh,...

G major is the key most guitarists end up in without ever choosing it. The open shapes sit under the hand, the chords ring against the open strings, and an enormous amount of rock, folk and country...

Odd time is less mysterious than it sounds. A bar of 5/4 is a bar of 4/4 with one extra beat. A bar of 7/8 is a bar of 8/8 with one taken away. Everything else about playing it is the same as playing...

Drop A is the point where a guitar stops sounding like a guitar and starts sounding like a different instrument. It is a long way down, and getting there with the strings you have on now will not...