If you're just starting out on guitar, or perhaps you've just taken your very first guitar out of its box and you're raring to get playing, this is the place to start. Here in the first of a series of ...

Prior to joining Metallica in 1983, Hammett played in Bay Area legends Exodus and was one of the band's founding members, starting up the group back in '79. After two years, he started taking lessons ...

Michael Diehl, owner of Freehold Music Center and the man who gave Bruce Springsteen his first guitar lessons, passed away on Dec. 15. He was 97. Diehl, a native of Farmingdale, owned and operated the ...

George Harrison quickly became obsessed with rock ‘n’ roll when he was a kid. He begged his mother to buy him a guitar. Thankfully she obliged. His father was supportive as well, at least initially.

When I was learning how to play guitar in the early noughties, my choices were to get lessons at school, attend an expensive specialist classical guitar school, or pay for private tuition. Nowadays ...

Trying to learn to play the guitar isn't always fun. The learning curve is notoriously steep—especially at the very beginning. Some days, even picking up your instrument can seem like a pretty ...

TRAVERSE CITY — Gene “Geno” Hansen was a Traverse City Junior High student when he took his first guitar lesson at Northwestern Michigan College in the late ‘70s with teacher Dave Eickenroth. Today, ...

Remember the first song you learned to play? Do you remember exactly how and where you learned it? Do you still play it? I remember vividly sitting in the living room with my father, learning “You Are ...