After a long lapse, I’m finally getting back into playing guitar. I’m sure many amateur players have lived a similar story – whether it’s a lack of time or one too many broken strings, it’s easy to ...

I’ve been playing the guitar since a very young age. Although I can read music, I prefer to use tablature to help myself work out songs that I can’t figure out by ear. (Tablature, or “tab” as it is ...

These days, there's no shortage of ways to learn guitar. Of course, on the one hand, you've got the tried-and-true old-school methods, like private lessons, group classes, and even sheet music. And ...

A lot of us love music, so much so that we pick up an instrument during our formative years in the hope that we can play like one of our idols, the best guitar app makes it so much easier to learn.

When guitarists see the name Gibson, they know they can expect a level of quality and craftsmanship that comes with a truly premium guitar, so it’s no surprise that the Gibson App is the premier way ...

You took guitar lessons as a kid, picked up the basic chords, and retained just enough that now, as an adult, you can play a few tunes with your kids. You’d like to continue playing and learning songs ...

Twenty years ago, 16-year-old guitar novices would have killed for this app when they were teaching themselves Nirvana and Pearl Jam songs in garages — by ear. Today’s kids can just use Capo 3… By ...

Guitar Gravitas is yet another iOS chords-and-scales app for guitar players, but this one’s worth a look because the layout is so damned useful. Unlike many other scale and chord apps, Guitar Gravitas ...

One of the more tedious tasks of playing in a cover band is managing lyric and chord sheets. When you play a typical four-hour gig in a local bar, memorizing all that music is not always going to ...

Growing up, I pretty much riffed my way through most instruments. I would plunk at my piano non-stop, trying to coax some sort of music from the hammers and wire, though I knew no real songs. With my ...