The A major pentatonic, A minor pentatonic and Mixolydian are great places to start and we'll show you how ...

Guitar skills: Sweep picking is a technique best suited to arpeggios played one note per string. The picking technique itself is much the same as strumming a chord in slow motion. Try holding a barre ...

Guitar lessons: The CAGED system is a well known approach that makes it very easy to access any chord across the whole neck. Today, we’re applying it to major and minor chords. If you already know the ...

When you buy through our links, we may earn an affiliate commission. I’ve tried so many guitar learning apps by now that I thought I’d seen it all. But when I found out Gibson had developed their own ...

Learning guitar has never been easier. In the past, you would have needed to hire a guitar teacher and buy music books to start learning how to play, but now, the explosion in guitar apps and free ...

Trying to learn to play the guitar isn't always fun. The learning curve is notoriously steep—especially at the very beginning. Some days, even picking up your instrument can seem like a pretty ...

This is SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm John Dankosky, sitting in for Ira Flatow. OK all you wannabe rock stars, take heart, it's not too late to learn the guitar according to my first guest, Gary Marcus. Fitting ...