Jacob Collier taught me how to play his 5-string guitar – but I learned so much more than just new shapes and tunings

Collier never learned on a six-string. Instead, he cut his teeth on a four-string tenor guitar. Then he had the audacity to imagine the existence of a five-string that could facilitate the sound he ...
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Keith Richards explains the 5-string guitar: '5 strings, 3 notes, 2 hands and 1 asshole'

"You can't buy a persona. You can either make it up or you can be it," states Keith Richards in the upcoming documentary, Keith Richards: Under the Influence, which gets its world premiere at the ...
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Confused about altered and extended guitar chords? Here’s the theory behind them – and how they can supercharge your songwriting

Terms such as ‘altered’ and ‘extended’ chords are relatively simple to explain. Extended chords add other notes from the scale to the existing root-3rd-5th triad (for example, C-E-G), so if we add a ...
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30-day guitar challenge, day 15: Use open strings and extensions for exotic folk chords

The 30-day guitar challenge culminates on World Guitar Day 2018, a massive 24-hour online celebration of the guitar on 29 September. 30-day guitar challenge: These chords are all major, which means ...
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Larry Graham on when you really need to use a 5-string bass

It would be fair to say that the majority of bass guitar greats have all used a 4-string for their entire career without ever touching a 5-string. “I guess there’s a place for five strings, but not in ...