Playing the guitar is the best. The. Best. I have played guitar for 22 years and every single day I feel the same excitement about picking it up as the first day. Playing music is pretty much always ...

Guitar skills: let's get one thing straight – you don't need to know a lot of scales to be a good guitarist. In fact, if you've been playing for under a year you could quite safely get away with only ...

Having looked at the minor pentatonic scale last month, this issue we’re moving on to its close relative, the blues scale. We say ‘close relative’ because the two scales are almost identical - just ...

If you’re learning to play the guitar, then you will constantly be looking up two things: Scales and chords. After you get a bit further into it, you’ll add arpeggios to that list. And you will keep ...

Learning to play the guitar with award-winning, Zimbabwean-born guitarist Tony Cox, and rediscovering the simplicity of music. It’s Sunday morning, 10 o’clock. I’m in a cottage alongside the Knysna ...

The guitarist praises Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi for having inspired his own love of drop tunings and evocative tones ...