If you're just starting out on guitar, or perhaps you've just taken your very first guitar out of its box and you're raring to get playing, this is the place to start. Here in the first of a series of ...

In this beginners' video lesson, we show you how to string bend within the blues scale. After the minor pentatonic scale, the blues scale is one of the most common scales found in guitar music. It's ...

Pushing a string up or pulling it down raises the pitch of the note you're playing. This is called string bending. The technique can be used to create singing, vocal-like phrases that other ...

There’s never a bad time to learn a new instrument. No matter your age, learning to play can be exciting and rewarding, and all it takes is a little practice and a decent starter guitar. Many ...

A guitar without strings is much less useful than one with them - though you may be able to use an acoustic model as a percussion instrument. It’s important, then, to get the best strings for your ...

For beginners, finding the best guitar to start with can be intimidating, to say nothing of actually learning to play it. There are a few age-old dichotomies to navigate—electric or acoustic, steel ...