Get started with chords, rhythm and picking with this lesson on the basics of acoustic guitar playing. It doesn’t matter whether you’re an absolute beginner or if you’ve played for a little bit longer ...

If there’s one thing you can do to take your songwriting to the next level, it’s getting to grips with new chords. Use our acoustic guitar chord charts - from basic open chords to the daddy of altered ...

When I mentioned that I was trying to teach myself the classical guitar, friends gleefully assured me that it was the most difficult possible instrument to master. My amateurish hacking through Neil ...

A versatile guitarist can turn his or her hand to accompanying in a variety of styles, so here we'll look at walking basslines - a method of providing jazz-style accompaniment (or 'comping', to use ...

Conventional wisdom dictates that a well-written song will stand up even when reduced to simple chords on acoustic guitar. But at some point, we’ve all heard songs in which complex or unusual chord ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Close up of a woman playing an acoustic guitar Let’s be clear: there’s no such thing as an ‘acoustic guitar chord’. If a guitar ...

To borrow a song title from Radiohead’s worst album, anybody can play guitar. The world is full of virtuosic talents and ...