The different ways of doing vibrato are used in different types of music, generally. For the most drastic change in pitch, I would say the whammy bar...

Learn to read music, too. It's good for you.

Learning how to play without looking at the fretboard will allow you to play solos on stage with your eyes closed and with a pained expression on your...

I would suggest to your friend just trying to learn right-handed... it makes everything a lot easier, at least on the buying-things side of it. I'm l...

Well, I have Bach's Cello Suites. They go to a C below the staff, while bass goes to an E below the staff (I'm naturally playing these an octave down...

You people are weak. I don't even have hands, I'm deaf, and I can play Flight of the Bumblebee, Jimi's Star Spangled Banner, Eruption, on guitar and ...

I have an electronic tuner, but I normally just go for my keyboard, and tune to that.

Actually, that's what Brian Ritchie (of the Violent Femmes) did originally. From Bass Player Magazine:"I was undisciplined. I was just too rebellious...

That is quite an assumption. this piano happens to start with F. Maybe I should stick to an instrument that I actually play....Anyone wanna know som...

That's why you don't learn the scale by a set pattern, you learn by what the notes of the scale are.

Yea, I play mandolin also... two strings per four courses. That's a pain to tune.Although I find lower strings easier to tune... I guess I'm more use...

A regular standard 88 key piano starts on A. Makes sense, since A is the first note... if your piano starts on something else, then you got ripped of...

12 string basses are cool. They're slowly becoming more popular... like a 12 string guitar, they have this really big jangly sound. Doug Pinnick of ...

I rather like Mel Bay's Method for Guitar. It goes string by string, and has a bunch of basic melodies.