I've long been fascinated with vintage acoustic guitars and after 25 years of playing, I still get goosebumps when I'm in the presence of a six-string that is nearly half a century my senior. But...

We have a steel string acoustic guitar but my wife has an old classical guitar that she was given many years ago (the one in the feature photo). She is now interested in learning to play but wants...

I am part of a forum for beginner guitarists and one of them recently asked if anyone else had carpal tunnel syndrome and if they had found any ways of coping and dealing with it whilst playing...

When I first started learning to play guitar I noticed that my fingers had turned black after playing guitar. I wasn't sure why this was so I researched all the reasons why and this is what I...

When researching for a recent post about why fingers turn black when playing the guitar I also learnt about acidity in fingers and hands. It turns out that many of us have an unusually high level...

“I don't have a musical bone in my body.” It's a phrase I often hear from new adult students. Another common thing to hear is how certain members of the family are musical, but my new client...