Like the major chords, minor chords are used throughout every style of music. They’re also some of the easiest shapes to play. The chances are you learned a few minor chords in your first lessons. And ...

is a reporter with five years of experience covering consumer tech releases, EU tech policy, online platforms, and mechanical keyboards. Fender Songs is a new iOS app from the veteran guitar ...

Don't believe the hype: The guitar isn't dying. But the industry that surrounds the instrument is definitely in a transitional period, to put it politely. Fender has weathered a lot of the storm by ...

Get your guitar or ukulele (or even piano) in your hands and take a look at some of the easiest Jack Johnson songs to learn. The music of Jack Johnson can be characterized as soft acoustic rock ...

In my previous column, we looked at the difference between extended and altered chords, and I wanted to give some further examples and explanations of how altered chords work in practical terms. After ...

Even if you are not a guitar pro, you can still surprise your significant other for Valentine’s Day by playing any of 15 easiest love songs to play on acoustic guitar. Valentines is close, and there ...

A few years ago I was in the studio cutting new demos in Nashville, TN. I grabbed a guitar and started sharing my latest song to a group of A-list session players. Halfway through my intro, the guitar ...

Gotta love some old Miranda Lambert. In many ways, the future of country music is female. While, of course, the three biggest artists on the planet right now are Morgan Wallen, Zach Bryan and Luke ...

From the sultry Spanish sounds of the Concierto de Aranjuez to modern adaptations of 17th-century lute music, some of the greatest classical music sounds absolutely stunning on guitar. For a work as ...

Below the main chord grid is a range of controls altering how the chords are played back. Tilt can be used to emphasise the ...