Alex Manwell starts to tune up a guitar as he begins his lesson. He explains to his teacher that he didn’t practice much the previous week because work is busy; he’s swamped with meetings. “This is ...

“Okay, so I’m not an idiot, I’ve worked out what string bending involves, but, tell me, why bother?” Well, those pesky frets can make things sound a bit lumpy sometimes as there’s a defi nite point ...

Pushing a string up or pulling it down raises the pitch of the note you're playing. This is called string bending. The technique can be used to create singing, vocal-like phrases that other ...

If you're just starting out on guitar, or perhaps you've just taken your very first guitar out of its box and you're raring ...