Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Sure, everybody loves a guitar show-off, melting picks and blistering fingers as they ...

You finally got that guitar you’ve always wanted, but can’t read music. Don’t worry, neither could Jimi Hendrix, and he was recently named the greatest guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone magazine.

Rocksmith is a popular video game that works like Guitar Hero, but with a real guitar. You have to play well and hit the right notes, or the game penalizes your score. [Lightwing] took the stakes up a ...