To avoid sounding the idle sixth string when you play this chord, bring your thumb around the back of the neck so that the tip of it just touches the string. This is a useful blues shape that can ...

If you got your kid a guitar for their birthday and they don’t know where to start, this list of 11 easy guitar songs for kids is a great resource. I learned to play guitar when I was 15, so the songs ...

If you’re at a stage in your playing journey where you find yourself fed up of how your chords and rhythm work sound, don’t worry. We all hit this ceiling at some stage in our playing journey. Rhythm ...

Learning to play an instrument takes significant time and effort, especially when learning independently. As a mostly self-taught guitarist, I have found the internet, particularly YouTube, to be an ...

While people are stuck at home over the next while, picking up new skills and hobbies has been at the top of their minds. If you’ve ever had a guitar just collecting dust in the corner of your closet ...

Above all else, country music is most often touted for its most essential part: being simple, and comprised of, as they say, “three chords and the truth.” And that is often the case. But in certain ...

Terms such as ‘altered’ and ‘extended’ chords are relatively simple to explain. Extended chords add other notes from the scale to the existing root-3rd-5th triad (for example, C-E-G), so if we add a ...