Recently I was talking to a friend who is left handed and bought a guitar in a garage sale. He asked me if I knew whether the guitar was left or right handed. I explained to him that it was a right handed guitar (it was a bargain though) and […]

I have been learning to play a steel string acoustic guitar and recently started to think about when I would like to purchase and play an electric guitar. Are they the same? Are the chords the same? Will I have to relearn how to play? Should I have started with […]

This year I turn 40 years old and have decided to learn to play the guitar, the classic mid-life crisis instrument. On starting this wonderful journey I have compounded what I already knew, that I am tone deaf with the voice of a dying animal. Surprisingly this doesn’t help with […]

When I was learning to play a song recently, it had a finger picking section, which I attempted. What I quickly realized though is that I was not consistent on the picking of the strings because my nails were short. So I did some research about whether or not I […]

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 to play songs that feature on a steel string acoustic guitar. I […]

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 guitar. So I wondered if there was much of a resource available for […]

I am new to the guitar and have been practicing playing acoustic guitar on a regular basis. Whilst I am still building calluses on my fingertips and getting used to the pain I have also noticed that my fingers and tips are often stained a blackish gray after playing. I […]