Making Strings Vibrate in Unconventional Ways

Making Strings Vibrate in Unconventional Ways

Guitar pickups detect the motion of a string, most commonly we create this motion with a pick or our fingers, but there are other forces that can vibrate a string, for instance, other soundwaves. You may notice that when you play your electric guitar loudly, the...
Best Acoustic Bands of All Time : Nirvana

Best Acoustic Bands of All Time : Nirvana

Nirvana released an entire unplugged album. The band was an American rock band formed in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1987. Founded by lead singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic, the band went through a succession of drummers, most notably Chad...
Music Theory: Getting Started With Intervals

Music Theory: Getting Started With Intervals

What Is an Interval? An interval is the distance between two pitches. That’s it! Whether two notes are played separately or together, we call the difference in pitch an interval. We measure them in semitones, which is the space of one fret on the guitar. We can...