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Set up your electric guitar: how to adjust action, truss rod, string height and radius, pickup height and clean your fingerboard and frets

Getting your guitar set up and maintained properly is vital to playing well and sounding great. If your guitar strings can’t resonate and intonate properly you’re automatically at a disadvantage. So ...

“I look at guitar playing as a dance between both hands…” John Butler shares his secrets in this stunning masterclass

Wild tunings, double thumbing and chicken picking. Sometimes with an 11-string. The Australian acoustic wizard's stunning ...
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Keith Richards explains the 5-string guitar: '5 strings, 3 notes, 2 hands and 1 asshole'

"You can't buy a persona. You can either make it up or you can be it," states Keith Richards in the upcoming documentary, Keith Richards: Under the Influence, which gets its world premiere at the ...
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Now THAT'S a string theory! Physicist reveals how science could make you a better guitar player

String bends, tapping, vibrato and whammy bars are all techniques that add to the distinctiveness of a lead guitarist's sound, whether it's Clapton, Hendrix, or BB King. Now guitarist and physicist Dr ...
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There's no need to suffer with high (or low) action anymore: How to adjust the string height on your electric guitar and bass

It doesn't matter how well-honed your guitar chops are, the way your instrument is set up will have a huge effect on how challenging it is to play. And that's a very individual thing; many of us ...