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Doubling simple strummed open chords is another great way to use Nashville tuning. On its own an acoustic guitar could sound ...

How it works: Swap the lower four strings for high‑octave counterparts from a 12‑string set, leaving the top two strings the same. Famous users: Keith Richards, David Gilmour, and Taylor Swift have ...

Most musicians have a guitar or two at home. Something to pluck along with as you listen to music, something to play a little ditty in between washing the dishes and bedtime. But when you enter a ...

Tuning with history: Guitar World details Nashville tuning’s high‑octave stringing, tonal sparkle, and use by artists from ...

Justin Pot is a freelance journalist who helps people get more out of technology. If you'd rather not use this automated tuning, or find that it doesn't quite work, you can tap a string to tune it ...

If you play guitar or another string instrument, one of the thankless tasks you do before you play—and in between songs—is getting your instrument in tune. There are several ways you can do this: You ...

It’s every guitar player’s nightmare: you step onstage, strike your rock-god pose, triumphantly strum the first chord of a song–and discover that your guitar is out of tune. A new line of instruments ...