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Rocksmith™+ Offers More Guitar Music Learning Than Ever
The new subscription service teaches electric or acoustic guitar and bass with a vast and ever-expanding library of songs.
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A Tribe Called Quest's Marriage of Jazz and Hip-Hop
The hip-hop trailblazers reshaped the genre with The Low End Theory -- and a guest appearance by a jazz bass legend.
What’s That Sound: Fuzz
The legendary circuit that started it all makes a glorious mess of your guitar's signal – but it's also capable of a lot more than digging in the dirt.
Rocksmith+ Dev Diary – July, 2021
Find our what we learned from the Rocksmith+ Closed Beta!
Three Extreme Metal Guitar Techniques You Need to Know
Unleash your inner demon with these need-to-know guitar techniques for speed, thrash, and death metal.
What's That Sound: Distortion
Bigger, louder, heavier – distortion crushes your guitar's signal to create the most aggressive sounds of heavy rock and metal.
The Making – and Re-Making – of Bachsmith’s “Ode to Joy”
Nobody always gets it right the first time. Come see how one of Rocksmith's signature songs evolved before you got a chance to play it!
Modal Mixture and Meaning in Crash Test Dummies’ “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm”
This melancholy alt-rock hit uses unusual chord progress to trick your ears and play with your mind.
In Defense of Auto-Tune: T-Pain's "Blow Ya Mind"
How the most polarizing music technology ever invented became one artist's stylistic springboard.
What's That Sound: Phaser
Lots of players got in on the phase craze in the late 70s, and it's still a great way to make your guitar sound otherworldly and wild.
How Gladys Knight took the "Midnight Train to Georgia"…instead of Houston
The Empress of Soul transformed an ex-quarterback's musical fantasy into a Grammy-winning hit.
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