Some songs are inspired by dramatic events. Others come to their authors in a dream. But for Randy Bachman, a broken string was the inspiration behind The Guess Who‘s 1970 hit American Woman. “I broke ...

Cy Shuster began his career as a software engineer who played a little guitar on the side. He could tune his guitar, so he figured tuning a piano couldn’t be that hard. “Then I tried it,” he said with ...

Every musician has a particular set of tasks and warm-ups before a performance or practice session—oiling the valves, rosining the bow, tuning, long tones, scales, stretches. For Kelly Moran, a ...