As far as 12-string electric guitars go, it’s hard to beat a Rickenbacker Capri model. The Fender Electric XII is perhaps the greatest competitor in terms of playability and sound, and the Gibson ...

If Cheap Trick’s Tom Petersson was ever taught the “traditional” way to approach bass guitar, it didn't take. As a founding member of Illinois's most celebrated rock outfit, he has long been a model ...

One of guitar playing’s simplest joys comes in ringing out a big, open chord and letting the guitar’s strings and tonewoods work their magic. Now imagine that joy, doubled. The best 12-string guitars ...

SUMMER NAMM 2018: Fender is filling out the gaps in its California Series of acoustic guitars with a pair of new additions: the Villager 12-string guitar and Kingman Bass. Both guitars feature a gloss ...

With ringing intros written on a Rickenbacker 12-string that helped define the musical tastes of a generation, the songs of The Byrds changed the shape of contemporary music in the mid- and late 1960s ...

Be it the deft melodic runs Paul McCartney played in The Beatles, the showboating funk grooves of Bootsy Collins or the liquid virtuosity of Jaco Pastorius, a good bassline is the heartbeat of a song, ...