Let’s not waste any time here. Paste staff and contributors came together to build a definitive ranking of the greatest guitarists of all time. Here are 150 icons, forgotten heroes, and the best and ...

Today in extended chords 101, we look at 11th chords – both minor and major – and explain how these “harmonically dense” ...

If you have ever wanted to learn to play the guitar, but you never get around to this because of the time and money involved, ...

Wong explains how outlining notes in the chord progression helps find a solo that's melodically on-point and just what the song calls for ...

Abstract: Automatic chord recognition is conventionally tackled as a general music audition task, where the desired output is a time-aligned sequence of discrete chord symbols, e.g. CMaj7, Esus2, etc.

Bob Weir is rightly being remembered as a transformative figure whose guitar playing made an indelible contribution to the Grateful Dead, and to improvisational rock & roll at large. In fact, Weir was ...

Are song lyrics the same as poems? The members of the Swedish Academy think they are and said as much in 2016 when they awarded the Nobel Prize in literature to Bob Dylan, recognizing him “for having ...

The Cream DaVinci has been under development for over a year and has been unveiled at various e-paper trade shows around the world. The guitar is now available for pre-order at $2,500; once it ships, ...

Every electric guitarist should have a few pedals in their arsenal to help shape their instrument's tone, boost its dynamics or sonic capabilities, or perform practical duties to ensure they always ...

I’m old enough to remember musicians getting angry over Guitar Hero. But they always seemed to be missing the point. Nobody was seriously suggesting that a video game controller would replace an ...