To say this is the most important facet of playing the guitar is an understatement. If your guitar is out of tune forget even trying to play – you will…
Now you are relaxed and have a comfortable posture, Andy will show you how to hold a pick (in the classic/traditional way). Here are the essential steps: Open your picking…
Andy gives you a few essential tips: Here they are below in a tad more detail, but remember one thing, you need to fee comfortably and relaxed when playing. You…
Although you may not need all the amps, effects and gizmos for your acoustic, there are still some essential (and not so essential) accessories you will require to begin your…
Every guitarist remembers their first guitar. Some look back with horror and disbelief, while others recall their introductory instrument with fondness, regardless of its quality. Most wish they knew back…
The first step to harmonising the major scale is understanding the fundamentals of chords and keys. Every key contains a series of chords, one for each individual note of the scale. For…
So why have we decided to start teaching on an acoustic guitar? To be fair, you can learn on either an acoustic or an electric guitar, but here are some…
3.0 Guitar Basics OK so in this section we’re going to cover some of the real basics of the guitar and guitar playing, like anatomy of the guitar, playing posture,…
Whatever you do, it is important to know and understand the tools you are working with, in this case the component parts of your guitar. By increasing your understanding it…
These days it’s increasingly hard firstly to find a gig, and secondly to keep it. Over many years as a working guitarist in Europe and the US, my one consistent…
Beginners often find it difficult to start alternate picking. By alternate picking, we mean alternating the pick from a downstroke to an upstroke or from an upstroke to a downstroke…
