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This time in Electric Guitar 101 we're looking at ways you can spice up your strumming and rhythm guitar playing, including 4/4, 3/4 and 6/8 timings, how to count them and how to improvise your own ...

Learning to strum like Johnny Cash or pick like Jimmy Page all starts with a few simple techniques, says our tutor Stuart Ryan One of the most enjoyable aspects of acoustic guitar playing is to strike ...

Strumming clean and steady is about motion, grip, and patience. On classical, acoustic, or electric, the way your hand flows across the strings decides the sound. Playing vampire chords well is not ...

Each of the strumming patterns in this lesson is progressive in that they build off each other. You may be familiar with one or two of them, but it's still recommended that you go through the entire ...