You hear guitarists play beautiful bell-like notes called harmonics.

But trying to play them yourself can be confusing.

There are both natural harmonics and artificial harmonics.

For more about how...

Your music teachers lied to you.

For time signatures, they taught that the top number tells how many beats are in each measure.

And the bottom number is the note that gets one beat.

In their defens...

Sometimes you feel like you’re not improving on guitar.

If you’re like me, you want to find that new exercise, that perfect 15-step practice plan, or whatever.

I like weird exercises and complicated...

All barre chords seem to fit in one category: challenging.

But as you explore further, there are different barre skills to practice.

Partial Barre

Play a four-string F chord.

Work to adjust your...

When you play simple music, you let the left-hand fingering happen by instinct.

That works.

But with more complicated music, random left-hand fingerings don’t get the best result.

How do you decide...

Maybe you’ve tried the metronome and found it frustrating.

You feel like the metronome causes mistakes.

But most advanced guitarists say the metronome is a useful tool.

Why?

It helps you improve t...

You enjoy playing guitar.

But your sitting position does not always feel good.

Your back gets stiff and your shoulders hurt.

To fix this, find a comfortable position without the guitar.

Put your f...

You pick up the guitar, but you just don’t feel excited about it.

It feels like work.

Nothing goes right.

If this happens for several days in a row, you start avoiding guitar practice.

You feel gu...

When you sing a melody, connecting the sound comes naturally.

But when you play the same melody on guitar, the plucking of the strings interrupts the flow.

How do you fix this?

Avoid the following ...

You hear guitarists play harmonics.

These shimmering bell-like notes are enchanting!

But when you try to play them, confusion ensues.

How do you overcome this?

Here are three tips that will help y...

Picture this.

You hear a piece of music that sounds amazing.

You just can’t wait to play it.

So you start learning it.

But you quickly realize it’s much harder than anything you’ve ever played.

Y...

When you first started playing guitar, you used whatever right-hand finger got to the string first without much thought.

But as you played more complicated music, randomly chosen right-hand fingering...