News How to Tune Your Guitar by Ear Tuning your guitar is the first thing you should do when you pick up your guitar. If you want to know how to tune your guitar by ear, we've got you covered.
News What Makes Yamaha Guitars a Favorite Among Musicians? Yamaha has kept on adding to its lineup of guitars over the years. Yamaha guitars are affordable and well-suited for musicians of all levels.
News An Easy Trick to Remember Guitar String Names Do you struggle to remember the string names on your guitar? With this easy trick, you will never forget guitar string names again.
News What Are Minor Chords? Minor chords are considered the most important types of chords in music, the majority of pop and rock songs use only major and minor chords.
News How to Read Note Values? Rhythm is a crucial part of music. Knowing the basic rhythms such as quarter notes, eighth notes, and rests will give you a deeper understanding of music.
News 2 Essential Guitar Scales for Beginners The first step in learning music faster is knowledge of guitar scales. By practicing scales, you’ll be able to build finger strength and dexterity.
News What Are Power Chords? Power chords have been used in some of the most epic guitar riffs of all time like Iron Man, Hit Me With Your Best Shot and Smells Like Teen Spirit.
News What Are Major Chords? Often described as "happy chords", major chords are probably the most important chords in music, composing the core of countless songs.
News Female Guitarists You Should Know – Lzzy Hale Breaking society's standards and serving a rockstar attitude, she is a Gibson signature artist, a female guitarist you should know: Lzzy Hale.
News Female Guitarists You Should Know #1 - Sister Rosetta Tharpe A black woman from Arkansas who shredded on electric guitar and influenced generations. One of the essential female guitarists in the history of rock'n'roll
News How to Stay Motivated to Practice Every Day How can you find motivation during those periods where it seems so hard to do anything? We give you 6 tips on how to keep motivated to practice your guitar.
News 4 Warm-Ups That Will Help You Play Even Better Just like you stretch before exercising, you should do the same before you start playing your guitar. Here are 4 warm-up exercises you should be doing.
News 6 Music Documentaries You Should Watch On Netflix A list of the 6 best music documentaries about guitar players you can watch on Netflix. Grab your popcorn and prepare for inspiring behind the scene moments
News How to Practice Guitar to Get Better Faster Practice guitar instead of just playing some stuff! This post will help you understand what you need to do to in order to get better at guitar.
News How to Learn Guitar: 7 Tips for Beginners Learning to play guitar is easier than you might think. Learn guitar from our experience and avoid common mistakes with these 7 tips.
News Holidays are Coming - 12 Beautiful Christmas Songs You Should Learn It's the most wonderful time of the year and we bring you the most beautiful Christmas songs with notes and play-along tracks for your holiday greetings.
News Interview with DragonForce's Herman Li on How To Practice Guitar During our interview at Musikmesse Frankfurt, DragonForce guitarist told us how he practiced to become one of the fastest guitar players on the planet.
News Magnus Karlsson: Interview and Guitar Practice Hints We talked to Swedish songwriter, guitarist, guitar teacher, and producer Magnus Karlsson about practicing guitar. Here's what you can learn from him!
News Why Practicing Guitar with Backing Tracks Is Important (and Also More Fun)! Practicing scales using backing tracks is an excellent way to improve your playing. It's also a lot more fun than practicing with only a metronome!
News What You Can Learn From Wes Borland's Guitar Style Wes Borland created riffs full of high energy and drive that kept fans pumped up for more than a decade. Find out what you can learn from his style.
News Lick of the Week - Hot for a Teacher In this tutorial, we break down the fast opening two-handed tapped riff and the arpeggios of Van Halen's song Hot for Teacher.
News 5 Things You Gotta Do To Play Like Eddie Van Halen Eddie Van Halen is one of the most influential guitarists in the world. To celebrate his birthday, we'll reveal a few things about his success.
News The Magic Behind Musical Modes Modes are alternative tonalities or scales. In this article, we'll explain how you can use them to invoke different feelings and emotions when writing songs.
News Artist of the Week - Zakk Wylde Nobody rocks the Gibson Les Paul like Zakk Wylde. Find out why Zakk started to learn guitar and how he structures his practice routines.
News Lick of the Week - You Give Love a Bad Name Richie Sambora is responsible for writing some of the best-known rock songs of the past 30 years, check out the intro of his first number one hit!