When learning how to play the guitar it’s very easy to focus on riffs and techniques, but one thing that can easily get overlooked is learning more advanced chord styles. Many classic songs use chords ...

Joni Mitchell is an artist who has always spoken her mind. Armed with her acoustic guitar she has given us countless hits that dig deep into various social and political issues. Her ability to tell ...

is a reporter with five years of experience covering consumer tech releases, EU tech policy, online platforms, and mechanical keyboards. Fender Songs is a new iOS app from the veteran guitar ...

Strum your way through this list of 15 easiest acoustic guitar songs to play for beginners, and you just might pull off the free-spirited, hippy persona. I’ve tried my hand at both electric and ...

Don't believe the hype: The guitar isn't dying. But the industry that surrounds the instrument is definitely in a transitional period, to put it politely. Fender has weathered a lot of the storm by ...

Above all else, country music is most often touted for its most essential part: being simple, and comprised of, as they say, “three chords and the truth.” And that is often the case. But in certain ...

In my previous column, we looked at the difference between extended and altered chords, and I wanted to give some further ...

This post is in partnership with NME. Perhaps nothing epitomized the accessible DIY nature of punk more than what iconic fanzine Sideburns quipped in its first issue back in 1977: ‘This is a chord.