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Cleaning a guitar takes two habits. After every session, wipe the strings, the neck and the body with a dry microfibre cloth. Two or three…

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Store a guitar indoors at a stable room temperature with relative humidity between 45 and 55 percent, either in a case or on a proper…

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A practice routine sticks when it is short, fixed and impossible to avoid. Twenty minutes, at the same time each day, on a guitar that…

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Action is the height of the strings above the frets, and it is the single biggest factor in whether a guitar feels easy or exhausting…

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With twenty to thirty minutes on most days, you can play recognisable songs within one to three months, hold your own alongside other people at…

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At the bottom of the guitar market you are mostly buying a body shape and a box of accessories. The wood, the hardware and the…

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Yamaha keeps getting recommended to beginners for one unglamorous reason: consistency. The guitar that arrives at your door is very likely to be the same…

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Epiphone is Gibson’s own lower priced brand. Gibson bought the company in 1957, and today Epiphone builds Gibson designs, including the Les Paul and the…

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String gauge is the thickness of a string, measured in thousandths of an inch, and a set is named after its thinnest string. A set…

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Squier is Fender’s own budget brand. Fender owns the name, draws the designs, and puts the same body shapes and the same model names on…

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Most players should change guitar strings every one to three months. If you play an hour a day, plan on roughly every four to six…

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Standard tuning on a six string guitar is E, A, D, G, B, E from the thickest string to the thinnest. The quickest reliable way…

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