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 ...

Last month, a signed and illustrated guitar pick that belonged to the late Nirvana bandleader Kurt Cobain sold at an auction for a whopping $14,678. It continues, "During the week of April 2, 1990, to ...

A guitar pick that previously belonged to Kurt Cobain sold at auction last month for a final price of $14,678. The sale concluded on June 10 and the price fetched by the orange Dunlop Tortex pick ...

Allen Van Wert is a guitar teacher, fingerpicking metal virtuoso, and now an A.I. developer who is promising his new program, The Ultimate Picking Program, can identify weaknesses in performance and ...

Whether you want to play lead or rhythm, you need to get your picking technique together. We show you how... “Picking the strings, then. Up or down - that’s got to be it, surely?” Essentially, yes.

Hybrid picking is an electric and acoustic guitar technique that involves a mixture of plectrum ‘flatpicking’ and fingerstyle technique. The style is most synonymous with players such as Chet Atkins, ...

Playing back recorded video of energetic string picking or frantic fretboard gymnastics in super slow motion can be of great help when trying to nail minor technique problems, but mounting a weighty ...

We've rounded up the best gifts for guitar players, whether they're learning their first chord or have been shredding for years. Our picks range from actual guitars and amps they can rock out with, to ...

Queen are currently celebrating their 50th anniversary. Incredibly, the guitarist's iconic instrument is even older than that. In a fascinating interview, Brian gave a extraordinary insight into how ...

Anyone who learned to play the guitar in the 70s was likely inspired to do so by these killer rock songs from 1974.