Want to learn how to play guitar as a beginner? Or even improve on what you already know as an intermediate or expert guitar player? Well we’re guitar lessons of all levels, from which guitar to choose to advanced finger picking tips. Browse the below guides and learn how to play guitar properly today!
Hybrid instruments have been growing in popularity as of late. In this guide, we’ll be looking at guitaleles, which are essentially a combination ukulele and guitar (you can find a more in-depth explanation later in this guide). Guitaleles or six-string ukuleles can come in handy for a variety of purposes, whether it’s for practice, accompaniment,…
You don’t always think about them, but you do need them. Whether you’re on the road or at the studio, or even in the practice room, it’s a good idea to keep a spare pack of acoustic guitar strings on hand. When you break a string, you need to replace it. When your strings sound…
Every guitarist finds the need to resting their guitar occasionally. Even pros with guitar techs sometimes need to restring their own guitars, especially if they aren’t on tour or recording an album. As a beginner, this is a useful skill as well. As you begin playing more and more guitar, the need to put new…
Who says you need expensive amps and microphones to record guitar? Who says you need costly multi-effects units or pedalboards to capture an awesome tone? These days, all you need is a killer VST plugin along with some impulses to achieve stellar results. In some cases, you don’t even need impulses. If that wasn’t awesome…
Every guitarist should learn how to restring their acoustic guitar. The first time you break a string, it can come as a bit of a shock. People don’t necessarily tell you that breaking a string is an inevitability, so when it happens, you might even assume the guitar itself is broken (but it’s not). The…
The guitar is a complex and nuanced instrument that responds with exacting specificity to the player’s technique and idiosyncrasies. The six-string guitar is the most popular form, but driven by curiosity and innovation, it continues to evolve. When the guitar was still a newcomer on the block in the 15th century, it may have only…
If you’ve ever heard of the “box pattern” before, there’s a good chance the topic of the conversation was the pentatonic scale. The major scale may be the first scale you learn, but what usually follows on its heels is the minor pentatonic scale. This is because the minor pentatonic scale is easy to learn…
The acoustic guitar has played a critical role in popular music for decades… and it’s easy to forget. At times, it shows up in expected places, such as in ballads and sad songs. At other times, it has surprised listeners in unlikely rock and metal tunes. And, some of the songs we’ve grown to like…
Although there are many components you can swap out on your guitar that will have a noticeable effect on its tone and playability, none are quite as important as pickups. Pickups have a near direct relationship to the tone that comes out of your guitar. This doesn’t mean that your Tele will sound like an…
Guitars come in a variety of sizes. This is good news, because human beings were not created equal. Some of us have big hands while others have smaller hands. Finger length and thickness can also vary. If you have smaller hands, you should find an instrument that works for you. Fortunately, smaller guitars aren’t too…
We’ve talked about pickguards in great depth on the blog. But in case you’ve forgotten, here’s a summary. Pickguards: a) affect how your guitar looks and b) protect your guitar’s finish from scratching. There’s not a whole lot more to it. But maybe you don’t want a stock pickguard. Maybe you want to make your…
Guitars are made up of a variety of parts. And, not all guitars are created equal because they don’t always come with the same parts. There can be variations in terms of volume and tone knobs, pickups, tuners, potentiometers and more. One part that makes a significant difference in terms of how a guitar looks…
At Music Industry How To, we’ve talked a lot about how to get the tone you want as a guitarist. One of the most important components that determines how your guitar sounds is your pickups. In this guide, we’ll be looking specifically at the best Stratocaster pickups, so if you have a Strat and you…
So you’ve chosen the right guitar pick for you, and now you’re trying to figure out how to hold that guitar pick properly. It’s surprisingly easy to hold a pick the wrong way, which can lead to bad technique and playing habits. As with certain behaviors, you may need to force yourself to do it…
As a beginner guitarist, tuning might be a bit of a foreign concept. You may not even be able to hear different notes yet, let alone be able to tune one note to another. Once you get the hang of it, you should be skilled at tuning your guitar(s). But getting to that point can…