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We’ll cover tuning your guitar, picking technique, and a few fun one-string melodies like Seven Nation Army and Iron Man to get you playing right away. You’ll also learn your first basic chords—like E ...

For many players, their first guitar is something of a throwaway instrument. There may be great sentimental value attached to it, but those guitars, be they electric or acoustic, are usually cheap, ...

When I was learning how to play guitar in the early noughties, my choices were to get lessons at school, attend an expensive specialist classical guitar school, or pay for private tuition. Nowadays ...

Trying to learn to play the guitar isn't always fun. The learning curve is notoriously steep—especially at the very beginning. Some days, even picking up your instrument can seem like a pretty ...

My 8-year-old niece went for her first guitar lesson recently, and her music teacher suggested an exercise in which she was to lay her hands palm down on a flat surface and wiggle each finger in turn.