I’ve been playing the guitar since a very young age. Although I can read music, I prefer to use tablature to help myself work out songs that I can’t figure out by ear. (Tablature, or “tab” as it is ...

In the days before electronic music, musicians used to have to play things called “guitars.” There are very few players left among us with the skills necessary to play this seemingly lost instrument ...

If there’s one thing you can do to take your songwriting to the next level, it’s getting to grips with new chords. Use our acoustic guitar chord charts - from basic open chords to the daddy of altered ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Tab is short for tablature, a notational system used to give detailed information as to where ...

Guitar sheet music or tablatures are no longer rocket science: the Songsterr service creates them from YouTube videos or your own recordings. “What do you actually need me for?” says music teacher and ...

Guitar straps are useful tools, but they’re a little one-dimensional. Thankfully, SNL’s Fred Armisen has a nifty solution – straps with chord shapes printed onto them. If, like this writer, you had a ...

These days, there's no shortage of ways to learn guitar. Of course, on the one hand, you've got the tried-and-true old-school methods, like private lessons, group classes, and even sheet music. And ...