When you first start playing the guitar you are probably inspired by all the amazing guitar songs out there. Perhaps you even got the urge to play the guitar because you were amazed at some of the guitar solos your favourite musicians are able to pull off. Although you might be a fan of Carlos Santana’s work, you should probably start with something a little bit simpler. Here are a few go...

The ability to play a guitar smoothly is one of the most rewarding skills you can master. Unfortunately, it isn’t as straightforward a skill to learn as you might hope. Learning to play a song with all the numerous chords and the multiple chord changes will take some time. You need to be prepared to work hard and use a systematic approach to learning chord progression well. But don’...

If you want to master the acoustic guitar, you need to learn how to finger pick. Fingerpicking is all about being able to pick the string very fast and in an accurate manner. As a result, you’ll end up playing a lot faster. To help you practice fingerpicking, here are some good tabs to try.

What Does Fingerpicking Require?

Before you start practicing with the tabs, i...

Tuning your guitar correctly is one of the key things you need to learn to do. This is because tuning has an important role to play in how good your guitar sounds. There are different ways you can tune your guitar and here are some of the most popular guitar tunings. Try these different tunings to make your guitar practice a bit more fun.

How to Tune Your Guitar

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Ever wondered what is behind the amazing sounds a guitar makes? Well, there are plenty of components, but the pickups are an essential part of helping to create the unique sound we hear. In an electric guitar, the vibrations of the strings are sensed electronically and the signals route back to the amplifier. All of this sensing happens in a magnetic pickup. How do they work, and could you make...

Mastering the basic guitar chords first will get you on the right track to learning to play the guitar. Before you can start practicing simple songs, it is a good idea to get a grasp of playing the simple chords perfectly. Here are the five basic guitar chords you need to learn to play and some suggestions for songs that help you put your new skills to practice.

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