When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When you start your guitar journey, it’s very easy to imagine that you’d need to learn hundreds ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Guitar music is a ubiquitous feature of popular music, ...

Electricity? Overrated… ‘Real’ guitarists know that a guitar’s genuine excitement is best earned via the more personal connection of the player plus the resonant wooden body of an acoustic. Decades ...

While people are stuck at home over the next while, picking up new skills and hobbies has been at the top of their minds. If you’ve ever had a guitar just collecting dust in the corner of your closet ...

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Here are 10 iconic ’90s songs that are totally easy to learn on the guitar, even if you’re just starting out.

Johnny Cash's Hurt hits way different in A Major, as much so as Ring of Fire in G Minor. The dissonance in tone between the chords is, ahem, a minor one: simply the third note lowered to a flat. But ...

Want to learn the easiest Iron Maiden songs to play on guitar? One of the greatest heavy metal bands in history, Iron Maiden has inspired many of us to pick up the axes and start practicing our chops.

The guitar riff is synonymous with rock music. And these iconic riffs by Tom Petty, Nirvana, and The Call continued the tradition in 1989.

The modern electric guitar was forever transformed by iconic country guitarists in the 1950s, some of whom helped usher in rock and roll.