Beginner Lessons

How to incorporate the chords and composing tricks that built rock’s greatest riffs in your own writing

Beginner guitar: Play more notes with fewer fingers, and get to grips with essential rock ’n’ roll, funk, and soul shapes

Beginner guitar: learn rock, metal and punk riffs using just one chord shape

Beginner guitar: add one note to the minor pentatonic scale and unlock the formula for countless classic-rock riffs

Having learned your first chords, it's time to put them together with some easy techniques to make your transitions easier

A beginner's guide on how to strum chords in time

In this beginner guitar lesson, we explain what the different parts of the acoustic and electric guitar do

Beginners! Before you master the guitar, you've got to learn how to hold it. Fix your posture and your playing will follow

In this beginner lesson, learn your first guitar chords and the building blocks of rhythm guitar

Beginners, step this way: here's how to find a decent sound on your amplifier