“At some point, when my first band, the Fluks, was playing, I needed an amp, and I traded this guitar and, like, $60 to my drummer at that time, David Linton’s sister, who had a Super Reverb ...

It’s a little-known fact, but I’m a surprisingly good guitar virtuoso (I should be after 21 years!). But my music theory brain is slow, to be polite.

Mathematicians are “reinventing the wheel” by giving it a new shape. Their newly imagined wheel looks like a many-dimensional guitar pick, and it could theoretically roll in ways beyond our ...

So after I got the guitar riff, I experimented until I came up with this dissonant chord that really echoed that sense of frustration.” We have to agree with Harrison.

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Chords and rhythm: the two foundations of guitar. But what if you're getting bored by your own rhythm playing? It happens, but it's understandable as we all get into comfort zones as guitarists with ...

(Image credit: Future) You can move these chords to different root note positions and using a barring technique you can play any major chord anywhere on the guitar. You may recognise the A and E forms ...

You'll also learn basic guitar chord fingerings, strumming patterns, riffs on the electric guitar (as well as acoustic techniques), working in practice time and tips to make playing easier.