All you need is three chords and the truth. This lesson unpacks one of the fundamental skills of playing guitar, and offers a launchpad for budding singer-songwriters.

This $29.99 pack of online courses covers all of the basic guitar essentials including chords, ... You’ll have already learned how to play scales, strum patterns and other simple techniques.

The LiberLive C1 stringless guitar elicits standard chords and strumming patterns with all kinds of smart functions, even for non-musicians. listen Print view No strings, but it sounds good.

There are 128 slots for picks, and you can program your own strumming pattern that can sync to a DAW. As such, the Circle Guitar can theoretically strum the strings 32,000 times a minute.

A GameCentral reader offers up his review of Ubisoft’s recent music game, and starts by explaining why it isn’t really a video game at all – more an interactive music lesson.

As with many singer songwriters, Denver's guitar was primarily there to accompany his vocals so his guitar parts were always tasteful and suited to the song. He would often use short fills to make a ...

In this lesson, we’ll go over six easy strumming patterns so you’ll be ready for any acoustic situation. Visit Guitar Tricks for more in-depth and step-by-step acoustic guitar lessons, too.