Recent Lessons

Guitar Strings and the Great Outdoors

Guitar Lessons | Professor String
Playing outdoors requires you to pay more attention to your guitar strings! Professor String gives us tips on keeping your guitar happy when you play outside.

A Simple Way to Understand Modes for Guitar – Part 1

Guitar Lessons | Beth Isbell
Everyone seems to have his or her own "Aha!" moment when it comes to modes. Beth Isbell shares her modal method with our readers in this multi-part series.

Solving Timing and Rhythm Problems Part 3 – Left-brain Left Behind

Guitar Lessons | Nick Minnion
The third and final part in our series on solving timing and rhythm problems with a look at playing various eighth note, triplet and sixteenth note rhythms.

Steinar Gregertsen: Standing Next to a Mountain

Reviews | David Hodge
Guitar Noise’s favorite Scandinavian lap steel player’s second album is a wonderful tribute to the songs and stylings of Jimi Hendrix.

Popular Topics

beginner buying equipment chord melody christmas songs easy songs for beginners education guitar columns guitar lessons with audio interviews music theory playing live Podcasts practice tips profiles scales and modes soloing and improvisation song arrangement songs for intermediates songwriting strumming

Bumping around the blogs

Our First Winner in the “Complete Idiot’s Guitar” Giveaway!

www.davidhodge.com
Hello to all! In case you don’t read the Guitar Noise News (the free twice-a-month newsletter from Guitar Noise), we have a new giveaway contest going on. Between now and December 2011, we’ll be giving away autographed copies of my latest book, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Guitar, which comes out on October 5. To enter the giveaway, [...]

Neil Young To Release Four Lost Albums [News]

www.ultimate-guitar.com
Upcoming Releases: Neil Young has revealed plans to release four lost albums that have been in storage since the 1970s.

From Our Archives

Sound Advice for the Gigging Single Guitarist
Here is some great advice concerning getting gigs and continuing to do so. A must-read for those of you who are contemplating taking those first steps to playing out in front of people
Finger Picking Guitar

Learning Scales and Modes

Putting together solos is not easy for a lot of people, and the conventional teaching ("just use your scales") doesn't always make sense for beginners.
Finger Picking Guitar

Finger Picking Guitar

Fingerpicking or fingerstyle, if you'll pardon the pun, isn't all that hard to pick up. In fact, it's quite easy for most people to get started.

Audiofanzine Guitar News

  • The Loar LM-300-VS (28/07/2010)
    The Loar released their first x-braced A-model mandolin, hand-carved at The Loar Hand Carved Workshop, the birthplace of the LM-400, 600 and 700 mandolins.
  • British Amplifiers Watkins Dominator V Front (27/07/2010)
    British Amplifiers announced that a limited edition Golden Anniversary re-issue of the Watkins Dominator V Front guitar amplifier has been introduced.
  • Rocktron Reaction Digital Delay (27/07/2010)
    Rocktron has introduced a new Digital Delay in its Reaction Series of stompboxes.
  • Big Lou Guitars Wide Nut (23/07/2010)
    Big Lou Guitars developed the Big Lou Wide Nut guitar with extra wide fretboards and nuts to accommodate those with bigger hands and fingers, and the wider string spacing offers room for playability and accuracy.
  • Fortin Amplifiers NATAS Amp (23/07/2010)
    The NATAS is an all tube, dual channel, high gain amplifier that has been designed "with extreme metal musicians" in mind.
  • Vigier G.V. Wood 90 Review (23/07/2010)
    Since the beginning of the 80's, Vigier has been earning itself an exceptional reputation as a music instrument manufacturer. Instead of dull and tasteless mass production, the brand is committed to premium quality standards, thanks to a manufacturing process in which every step is carefully controlled ? and is "Made in France". Wood selection, after 3 to 7 years of aging, is a key step in the manufacturing process of each instrument.
  • Fender Classic Player Jazzmaster Special Giveaway (21/07/2010)
    To celebrate the summer, Fender is giving away a Classic Player Jazzmaster Special guitar.
  • Eastwood Guitars Doral Electric Jazz Guitar (19/07/2010)
    The Doral is a full size archtop guitar, featuring a laminated spruce top with curly maple sides and back as well as a three piece rock maple neck.
  • New AxeGlove Generation II Models (19/07/2010)
    LightWing Studios launched their third product line model expansion in 2010 with the release of their next wave of AxeGlove Generation II Guitar Protection Systems.
  • Effectrode PC-2A Photo-optical Tube Compressor (09/07/2010)
    This effect's signal path is 100% analog and built on a hand selected photo-cell, polyester coupling capacitors, metal-film resistors and NOS (new old stock) tube operating at real amp plate voltages.

Guitar Lesson Videos

Do you want to learn how to play electric or acoustic?

Learn to play guitar with online video lessons at JamPlay.com

Guitar Forums

Friendly talk about guitars & music
Join our community for the fastest response to all your questions.