Classical position of holding an acoustic guitar
The standard method for holding a classical guitar is to sit down, place it across your left leg and, using a footstool, elevate your leg to a point where your guitar is at an approximately 30 degree angle to you.
It lets the guitar rest against your chest and legs, [...]

Learn And Master Guitar Strumming
Doing very simple strumming patterns such as just one or 2 strums per measure can be very helpful if you are a beginning guitar player. Some times strumming can distract you from what you need to practice most: your left hand movements. So keep it short and don’t wear yourself out [...]

While you are learning to master and learn guitar playing techniques with your left hand, you will want to ensure that you are also not forgetting about your right hand technique.
Many new guitar players when learning to play the guitar are unsure of how to properly hold a guitar pick. Holding a guitar pick properly [...]

With the increasing popularity of the internet, learning online how to master the guitar has become very appealing for many beginners. Many try a couple free online lessons to learn guitar and after a few unsuccessful attempts, they give up. Before you do the same, you may want to find out which way of learning [...]

If you don’t own them already, at some point, you will encounter what are called guitar effects. Guitar effects are used to enhance the tone and sound of your instrument. Guitar effects can dramatically change your guitar sound, or simply make your guitar sound sonically rich.
When you enter the world of guitar effects, it can [...]

There are some very fun and exciting things that are unique to playing the guitar. One of these is called finger tapping. Although the theory behind finger tapping is nothing new, there is just something about guitar player finger tapping that sounds totally cool. Many other instruments such as the piano and saxophone have tried [...]

Let’s take a look at four basic kinds of harmonics that will help you to learn and master your guitar:
1. Open string harmonics
2. Pick harmonics
3. Tap harmonics
4. Thumb pick harmonics
1. Open string harmonics: By far the easiest kind of guitar harmonics that you can learn how to play are what are called open string harmonics. [...]

Your guitar instructor tells you to practice. Practice – what and how exactly should you practice?
Does this mean to go home and play everything that you covered in your lesson in one day? Maybe it means to dig out your most impressive song or riff and play it over and over.
Practicing guitar is an art [...]

In this lesson you will learn a couple chord progressions.
Songs are full of them! This is simply a series of chords that sound good with each other played over and over again.
Below you’ll see 3 chords: G, C and D.

The idea here is to play these chords in any sequence you want and create a [...]

One of the most frustrating aspects of playing guitar is when you reach the point where you are not improving.
Whether you are a novice or a seasoned musician, we all face the same problem when we learn guitar and ask the question, “Why am I not at the level I want to be and how [...]