Musical instruments and throats create different notes by making the air around them vibrate at particular frequencies (check out part one to find out how they do it). When you pluck the A string on a ...

Back on 2012, Paul Vo and Moog revealed a working prototype of a device that took control of acoustic string vibrations to provide a harmonic soundscape behind whatever the player was picking. After ...

Physics of Sound Harmonics and The Unified Theory Theoretical physicist Brian Greene, best known for his work on string theory, explains how music might have the answer we need to find a unified ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Doyle Dykes is famous for his frighteningly good fingerstyle guitar, into which he frequently ...

Guitar skills: Harmonics come in various forms, and in this electric guitar lesson, we will look at different ways to incorporate them into chords. We will utilise natural harmonics, a mix of fretted ...

In the words of the composer, ‘Essentially it is a very slow glissando along the full length of one bowed string. The player uses light finger pressure on the string in what is traditionally referred ...