Jazz Guitar for the Absolute Beginner, the debut instructional tome from New York City-based musician Amanda Monaco, is a well-thought out, step-by-step guide for the jazz guitar novice. Monaco starts ...

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There are loads of different guitar types and setups, each providing its own sound and tone. Luckily for you, as a beginner, you don’t need to know all about it. You will be learning the very basics ...

If you're just starting out on guitar, or perhaps you've just taken your very first guitar out of its box and you're raring to get playing, this is the place to start. Here in the first of a series of ...

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Get started with chords, rhythm and picking with this lesson on the basics of acoustic guitar playing. It doesn’t matter whether you’re an absolute beginner or if you’ve played for a little bit longer ...

The beauty of fingerpicking is that you can play melodies and basslines together using open chord shapes. We've got two examples for you here, based around open position A, D and E chords. You can ...