So you want to learn the guitar. You’ve gotten tired of sitting on the sidelines, listening passively to your favorite music, and you want to join in. Congratulations! Guitar is an amazing, versatile instrument, and playing guitar is an incredibly rewarding experience. However, like any other instrument, the experience of learning how to play guitar

There’s a long-held belief that guitar players get all the girls and all the glory. This may or may not be true, but one thing’s for certain, bass guitar is the glue that holds it all together. Bass guitar is the bridge between the drummer and the rest of the band. There are lots of

For as long as I can remember, guitar players have always enjoyed note-for-note tablature (TAB) versions of the songs they want to play. In the early days of TAB the focus was on guitar, while bass players were left to figure out bass lines by ear. Something happened to change that. Maybe some bass player

It can be frustrating when you first decide you want to learn to play guitar. If you’ve never played one before, you have no idea where to start or what you need to learn to even get more than a few unpleasant sounds out of the instrument. You can always get a guitar teacher, but

When we think of guitar music, we tend to think about rock, country, blues, maybe jazz, and (if you’re super fancy) flamenco. These have traditionally been the genres in which guitar is most prominent, and most people learn music in these styles when they pick up a guitar. These genres of music are great, and

Guitar is undeniably one of the coolest instruments around. All you need to make a hell of a crazy noise is to pull out an electric guitar, plug that bad boy into a loud amp, and strum. That’s why it can be frustrating when you start playing and all anybody teaches you are basic folk

The most important aspect of any kind of musical instruction is finding the right teacher or method for you. No two guitar players are alike, but online guitar lessons are literally a dime a dozen. There are only so many ways you can demonstrate a pentatonic blues lick. At some point, it comes down to

The guitar is an extremely versatile instrument. It can be used for so many different styles of music, and one aspect of it that can be found in nearly any style is the use of chords. And guitar chords themselves also come in all kinds of shapes and sizes. Below, we will be talking about

If you’ve got an Internet connection and a computer (or a phone or tablet), you can learn guitar online. The online world is filled with high-quality lessons of all types—everything from basic beginner lessons to more advanced playing techniques and fretboard theory. You can learn how to read tablature or standard music notation, how to

A major scale is a scale that uses this whole/half step pattern: W-W-H-W-W-W-H. Adding another whole step to this pattern will bring you to the octave of the root (starting) note. If you start on any note and apply this step pattern, you’ll find the notes in the major key named after your starting note