Learn Guitar

Learn guitar guides from Sandy Music Lab teach beginners and improving players how to hold, tune and practice the guitar, play chords, fingerstyle, lead and tapping, and build good habits.
Start with how to learn guitar by yourself, then learn the 12 easiest beginner chords and follow a 30-minute daily practice routine. Warm-ups and guitar exercises build speed and accuracy, and why your playing sounds bad helps you fix common mistakes.
Deciding how to learn? Compare online guitar lessons, guitar apps and guitar books. When you’re ready to go further, see music theory for guitar. Song lessons and riffs to practice are in the section below.

Guitars go out of tune relatively easily, and an out-of-tune guitar can ruin a perfectly enjoyable jam session pretty quickly.…

To answer questions like “are most guitarists ambidextrous?” it’s essential to define what “ambidextrous” means first. That’s a bit tricky,…

If you’re thinking about learning to fingerpick but have short nails, then it’s reasonable to wonder if you can keep…

Some beginner guitarists shy away when they hear the word “fingerstyle.” But playing fingerstyle guitar doesn’t have to be as…

If you want to learn to play classical guitar, your favorite folk or country song, or Led Zeppelin’s “Babe I’m…

One of the age-old struggles of novice guitar players is figuring out how to play clean, precise notes with minimal…

Developing calluses on your fingertips is a crucial part of learning to play the guitar. Without this hard skin, the…

Guitar tabs are a subject of controversy to some people. While new and veteran guitarists alike use them to provide…

Tabs can be helpful when learning to play the melody of a song. They provide a visual representation of the…

It’s hard to be a left-handed person, especially when it comes to an instrument like the guitar. Like so many…