Like many would-be six-string slingers, Don Bacon of Denver, Colorado, found getting started tougher than it looked. The discomfort experienced when pushing soft finger ends onto hard metal strings ...

Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote about everything from new Web start-ups, to remote-controlled robots that watch your house. Prior to joining CNET, Josh ...

[Heinrich Laue] was kind of a latecomer to the fake guitar playing video game phenomenon. He played Frets on Fire — an open source clone of the game — on PC and eventually bought a copy of Guitar Hero ...

The Finger Friendly Guitar Company Keyboard makes picking up guitar easier and less strenuous. Developed by self-proclaimed “failed guitarist” Don Bacon, this apparatus helps people become more ...

NEW YORK: Justin Bieber's Grammy's snub may have left the teen idol stone-faced and speechless, but it's a pretty good bet that the young woman who did win Best New Artist, Jazz singer and bassist ...

A crazy gadget that looks like a toy fretboard peripheral for a video game is actually a highly versatile instrument that can be played in many ways. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she ...

Learning a musical instrument is one of those things that many people put on their to-do list, but never actually get around to, y’know, doing. However, if you've been forced to retreat inside and are ...

What I’d like to talk about today is how the syncopations of the tune’s primary guitar part work in conjunction with the chordal accents supplied by the keyboard, which I think is a good example of ...

A new stand-alone programmable MIDI controller has been created called the Tabstrummer, which is half guitar and half keyboard. It allows chords to be programmed into it and then played back at the ...