Choosing the perfect guitar to start playing can be a right of passage. Is the famed Fender Stratocaster a good guitar for beginners? Although it always depends on the player, there's an excellent...

Using a pick is suitable for some music styles, but plucking the strings with your fingers has a very different sound. What's the best way to learn finger style? Do you need special skills or...

Learning a new instrument is always a delight and a challenge, but the guitar world, in particular, can be a challenge to break into. There are many unique names for parts of the music, and you may...

Choosing a stringed instrument is both fun and surprisingly challenging. It’s even harder to decide whether it is better to learn bass or guitar first. Naturally, it depends on what you want to...

When you’re new to playing guitar, there are many things to learn, but it is a painful lesson when it gives you calluses. Because strings rub against your skin repeatedly as you play, it damages...

Jimi Hendrix famously restrung his right-handed guitar for a left-handed play style. However, just because someone else did it, does that mean that you can restring a guitar to make it left-handed as...