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Broken strings? Lifeless tone? Terrible playing? It’s not you… It’s your strings: How to restring a guitar fast to play and sound great again
Here’s how to give your guitar (and your sound) a new-string makeover
“It’s a piano chord, but I played it with my arse”: The Police’s classic breakthrough hit
“I went to my room, picked up the guitar and imagined this woman into life”
Who needs Logic or Ableton Live when free browser-based DAWs are becoming this good?
Browser-based music production has come along in leaps and bounds, with everything from effects and instruments to even full-on DAWs now possible, and much of it for free
“I sat on that song for two decades”: Five Finger Death Punch's powerful anthem
“When you have a piece that you know can be brilliant, everything matters. If you nail it, this is a legacy piece”
The story of the Rolling Stones-sampling anthem that has won over a new generation
Built atop an orchestral version of the Rolling Stones’ The Last Time, Richard Ashcroft and The Verve conjured a timeless symphony of self-assertion
We speak to Bernard Butler and David McAlmont about writing one of the most uplifting songs of the 1990s
From the ashes of an acrimonious split came the song that some regard as the I Will Survive of the ‘90s
The creative genius and ‘insane’ methodology in Van Halen’s biggest selling album
“Eddie and Alex jammed for hours and hours, day after day, until they hit upon something so unique that is so perfectly natural”
“I was so shocked and sad when he died. That night, I wrote a song about Bon”
“As a rock ’n’ roll singer and as a person, he was one of the best”
