First steps
- Guitar for Kids: Which Size Fits? – Learning guitar as a kid: which guitar size suits which age? From 1/4 to 4/4, nylon or steel strings – how to find an instrument that fits.
- How to Hold a Guitar – Posture for Beginners – How to hold a guitar: sitting posture, footstool, thumb behind the neck and relaxed shoulders. Play comfortably and without aches from day one.
- Guitar String Names and How to Remember Them – The six guitar strings E A D G B E – with memory sentences, how they are numbered and which one is thickest. Learn the string names fast.
- How to Tune a Guitar – Easy Guide for Beginners – Tune your guitar step by step: with a tuner or by ear using the 5th-fret method. Plus tips for strings that keep slipping out of tune.
- Learn Guitar: Your First Chords as a Beginner – Learn guitar as a beginner or kid: Em, Am, C, G and D – with chord diagrams, easy one-finger versions and your very first chord change.
- Left-handed guitar – restring, buy a lefty model or play right-handed? – Left-handed guitar: learn right-handed, restring it (nut, saddle) or play upside down? What really works – plus mirrored chord charts in the app.
- Easy songs for beginners – with one, two or three chords – Easy songs for beginners and kids, sorted by number of chords: from one-chord songs up to four chords. All ready to play.
Technique
- Guitar Barre Chords – and an Easier F Chord – Learn guitar barre chords: simplify the F chord with a mini F and Fmaj7, practise the barre step by step and sort out common problems.
- Guitar Capo Explained Simply – How a guitar capo works, when it helps and how to work out which chord actually sounds. With a handy table for frets 1 to 5.
- Guitar Fingerpicking for Beginners – Learn guitar fingerpicking: the p, i, m, a fingers, a first picking pattern over chords and tips for an even, lovely sound.
- Drop D: The Easiest Alternate Tuning for Guitar – Drop D explained: only the low E string goes down a whole step to D. One-finger power chords, songs in D – and how to set it up in the tuner.
- Open G Tuning: All Open Strings Sound a G Chord – Open G (D G D G B D): all open strings already make G major; C and D are one finger across frets 5 and 7. Great for blues, rock and slide.
- Open D and Open E: Tunings for Slide Guitar – Open D (D A D F# A D) and Open E (E B E G# B E) explained: major chords with one finger, slide playing – and how to set them up in the tuner.
- DADGAD: The Celtic Guitar Tuning Explained Simply – DADGAD sounds open and floating – typical of Irish and Celtic music. How to retune, how songs in D and G sound, and how to set it up in the app.
- Electric Guitar for Beginners: Power Chords and String Bending – Electric guitar made simple: pickups, amp and distortion, two-finger power chords and bending a string – with tips to protect your hearing.
- Sore fingertips? How calluses grow when you start playing – Sore fingertips are normal when you start. Find out how long calluses take to form and how to keep practising a little every day without pain.
- Faster chord changes – 6 tricks for beginners – Chord changes still feel slow? Anchor fingers, looking ahead and short change drills make them smoother step by step – on any stringed instrument.
- String buzzing or sounding dead? How to fret cleanly – A buzzing or muted string usually comes down to finger position or pressure. Here’s how to find the cause and make every chord ring out clearly.