In this frankly epic tutorial we're concentrating solely on chords and chordal ideas, and the following will act as a compendium of great chord fingerings. The audio examples start with simple chords ...

If you're just starting out on guitar, or perhaps you've just taken your very first guitar out of its box and you're raring to get playing, this is the place to start. Here in the first of a series of ...

Rocksmith is a popular video game that works like Guitar Hero, but with a real guitar. You have to play well and hit the right notes, or the game penalizes your score. [Lightwing] took the stakes up a ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Sure, everybody loves a guitar show-off, melting picks and blistering fingers as they ...

Adding a few choice notes to the basic major, minor and powerchords you already know adds flavour and can help fill out your guitar sound. Here are 10 tasty shapes to help you create the ...

Jake E. Lee was such a fan of a "weird" note in "Winter's Call" that he turned down a $500 bribe to change it.

Jake E. Lee said he’d once been offered a bribe of $500 plus benefits to change one note on a guitar solo, but refused, in ...