Key Takeaways Modern guitar synth pedals no longer require special pickups and work with standard guitar inputs, making ...

Like many would-be six-string slingers, Don Bacon of Denver, Colorado, found getting started tougher than it looked. The discomfort experienced when pushing soft finger ends onto hard metal strings ...

[Heinrich Laue] was kind of a latecomer to the fake guitar playing video game phenomenon. He played Frets on Fire — an open source clone of the game — on PC and eventually bought a copy of Guitar Hero ...

There's something pretty satisfying about nailing those floating, colorful notes in Guitar Hero, a feeling that a company named Incident took advantage of with a more lifelike guitar in 2012 to pretty ...

The Finger Friendly Guitar Company Keyboard makes picking up guitar easier and less strenuous. Developed by self-proclaimed “failed guitarist” Don Bacon, this apparatus helps people become more ...

A crazy gadget that looks like a toy fretboard peripheral for a video game is actually a highly versatile instrument that can be played in many ways. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she ...

Rock Band 3 will offer keyboard and guitar controllers which double as as functional instruments plus a 'Pro' mode to teach music-playing fundementals, USA Today has revealed, as well as tracks ...

is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Many people try to learn an instrument at one point or another in their life, and for a lot of us that ...

Gutarist, hacker, and mustache enthusiast [David Neevel] brought together way too many pieces of hardware in order to use his electric guitar as a computer keyboard. So let’s dig into the house of ...

The possibility of a keyboard in Guitar Hero World Tour has apparently been shot down, a Joystiq interview has revealed. As previously reported, Guitar Hero World Tour will be adding a new instrument ...