ELECTRIC GUITAR WEEK: As the first tuning you learn when you start playing the guitar, ‘standard’ EADGBE tuning should be familiar to most guitarists. Any change to these notes is known as an altered ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Steve Jennings/Getty Images Ani DiFranco may not have tried every guitar tuning, but ...

I've always been frightened of alternative tunings. Not of playing in them, which I'd never even tried, but the whole idea of them. I've spent my whole life in guitar in the standard tuning and I ...

If you're a guitar player who likes to experiment with alternative tunings, you know what a hassle it can be to retune your guitar every time you switch from one tuning to another, especially if ...

Marissa Nadler is one of the most bold, bewitching, original voices to come out of Boston. OK, to come out of anywhere. She's also a damn cool guitar player. As Bill Brotherton wrote in the Herald: ...

Ani DiFranco may not have tried every guitar tuning, but listening to her unique brand of dynamic and percussive folk/punk/rock songs, it can certainly seem that way. What is clear, however, is that ...