Intonation is responsible for how in-tune one string plays at every note ... For this guide covering how to restring your ...

You seldom hear people say, "I love the bass guitar in that song." But the bass holds the whole darn thing together. That's ...

The idea here is that you don’t have to – a single set of DDT’s can handle a broad range of tunings, feeling neither too tight in standard or too floppy when drop-tuned. Highly respected for their ...

Phil Lesh, a classically trained violinist and jazz trumpeter who found his true calling reinventing the role of rock bass ...

The bass guitar is a curious beast ... Without it, we’d all be just slightly off-beat, a little out of tune, wondering why everything feels, in some indefinable way, off. It turns out that ...

Armed with a cheap four-string instrument his girlfriend bought him, Lesh sat down for a seven-hour lesson with Garcia, ...

Phil Lesh, a founding member of the Grateful Dead whose electric bass playing came to define the psychedelic San Francisco ...

Fans and fellow band members recognized Phil Lesh as a critical member of the Grateful Dead and he was known for his ...

Phil Lesh plays his own songs on trumpet alongside his college jazz band in the earliest known recording of the late Grateful ...

Lesh credited Garcia with teaching him to play the bass in the unorthodox lead-guitar style that he would ... following the latter’s advice that he tune his instrument’s strings an octave ...

Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson’s current band Envy of None has released a new Halloween single, “Not Dead Yet,” and an animated music video.

An official statement posted to Lesh's Facebook account Friday said Lesh "passed peacefully" and was "surrounded by his ...