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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...