It doesn't matter how well-honed your guitar chops are, the way your instrument is set up will have a huge effect on how ...

he switched to bass from guitar and famously began to thump the strings while playing in his mother's band as a teenager.

There are more strings in the orchestra than all the other instruments put together, and they are very often at the heart of the music. The double bass is the biggest string instrument in the ...

Phil Lesh, a classically trained violinist and jazz trumpeter who found his true calling reinventing the role of rock bass guitar as a founding member of The Grateful Dead, died Friday at age 84.