I’ve been playing the guitar since a very young age. Although I can read music, I prefer to use tablature to help myself work out songs that I can’t figure out by ear. (Tablature, or “tab” as it is ...

Learning guitar has never been easier. In the past, you would have needed to hire a guitar teacher and buy music books to start learning how to play, but now, the explosion in guitar apps and free ...

Twenty years ago, 16-year-old guitar novices would have killed for this app when they were teaching themselves Nirvana and Pearl Jam songs in garages — by ear. Today’s kids can just use Capo 3… By ...

One of the more tedious tasks of playing in a cover band is managing lyric and chord sheets. When you play a typical four-hour gig in a local bar, memorizing all that music is not always going to ...

Growing up, I pretty much riffed my way through most instruments. I would plunk at my piano non-stop, trying to coax some sort of music from the hammers and wire, though I knew no real songs. With my ...

These days, there's no shortage of ways to learn guitar. Of course, on the one hand, you've got the tried-and-true old-school methods, like private lessons, group classes, and even sheet music. And ...

The guitar is one of the most fascinating musical instruments. Many people around the world dream of learning the art of playing guitar. But it’s no easy task by any means. It is a very complicated ...

A lot of us love music, so much so that we pick up an instrument during our formative years in the hope that we can play like one of our idols, the best guitar app makes it so much easier to learn.

After a long lapse, I’m finally getting back into playing guitar. I’m sure many amateur players have lived a similar story – whether it’s a lack of time or one too many broken strings, it’s easy to ...