Isbell sympathizes with newbie players struggling with them, but discusses why they’re a vital songwriting tool ...

You can learn to play the guitar with only a few chords, and there are plenty of free websites to help you along the way.

Guitar lessons: The CAGED system is a well known approach that makes it very easy to access any chord across the whole neck. Today, we’re applying it to major and minor chords. If you already know the ...

A new twist to the popular music game genre will bring players one step closer to the rock icons they seek to emulate — Power Gig: Rise of the Sixstring features a guitar controller with real ...

Learn the basics of guitar chords, including major and minor types, chord progressions, and tips for beginners to start ...

7. E7 (open) (Image credit: Chords) If there’s a single chord here that screams ‘blues’ then this is it! The most resonant dominant chord you can play on the guitar and very easy to play.

Ten years after the introduction of the original Guitar Hero, Activision has announced that it will resurrect the once-ubiquitous series this fall with new game Guitar Hero Live. Developed by ...

There are strings on the newly-unveiled Power Gig guitar, which is coming, with a brand-new music game to video game systems this fall. But you won't have to be Jimi Hendrix to play it.

And no matter how many zombies I kill in Rocksmith 2014's Return to Castle Chordead, I'm not really learning chords; instead, I've just learned how to play a video game with a real guitar as the ...

There’s never been a better time to teach yourself to play the guitar than now. The number of free (or practically free) guitar resources online is staggering, from gamified learning systems to ...

Guitar Hero is back, but almost nothing that made the plastic-guitar rhythm game familiar remains untouched. The trademark plastic guitar has been overhauled, the campaign now takes place in a ...

If you liked “Guitar Hero” but wished it had more brass instruments, you’re in luck. A new rhythm game called “Trombone Champ” has struck a chord with users online, bringing the kind of ...