Don Bacon of Denver, Colorado, ha designed a soft-touch overlay called the Finger Friendly Guitar Company Keyboard to help make learning to play as painless and as easy as possible, with the added ...

But, in a busy store environment, here are a few tips to avoid rookie mistakes when buying a guitar for the first time. Tip #1: Decide first what type of guitar to get.

Many guitarists are in such a rush to get to the flashy, exciting aspects of guitar playing, like two-handed tapping or two-octave sweep arpeggios, that they overlook the basic skills these more ...

Now the guitarist has highlighted her top tips for buying a guitar you won’t instantly regret, and tells you how to know when it's time to buy and time to wait.

Jazz album: “Held On The Tips Of Fingers” by Polar Bear, released in 2005 on Babel Label. Explore the largest collection of jazz recordings @ All About Jazz ...

“There’s a lot of technical tips you can get out there, but to me a big part of guitar playing is mental,” she says.

Finger Stretching Unsurprisingly, guitar cover versions of "Back in Black" are plentiful — a cursory YouTube search will give you a good idea.

Here, we look at 21 ways you can get more from your acoustic, from the technical – ie, how you play the instrument – to the gear-focused.

And here in a new video tutorial, Yvette shares her approach to the instrument in a refreshingly accessible way with her new Ibanez YY20 signature model. Starting with tips on electric guitar strings ...

Musician John Mayer, 46, shared that he injured his index finger right before his final weeks in residence with Dead & Company at the Las Vegas Sphere and is now "practicing guitar using the other ...