GUITAR How-To Videos & Articles

Follow these guitar tutorials to learn all about guitar with WonderHowTo's collection of free how to articles, like Buy Your First Guitar, Be a Guitar God, and Play Guitar Hero.

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How To Buy Your First Guitar

Buy Your First Guitar

Learning how to play a guitar is fun, and can be a hobby that lasts forever. It can become an entry into playing with a band, or becoming a ...more

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How To Be a Guitar God

Be a Guitar God

Fancy yourself a fretboard wizard ? To rise to the ranks of guitar master --that is, an exceptionally talented and charismatic guitarist ...more

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How To Play Guitar Hero

Play Guitar Hero

Guitar Hero is a rhythm-based game for the PC, PlayStation 2, Nintendo Wii, Playstation 3, and Xbox 360 where you have to play a "guitar" in ...more

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Written 5 months ago by WikiHow | Comments 0
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How To Play Beginner's Electric Guitar

Play Beginner's Electric Guitar

Do you want to learn how to play the guitar like Hendrix, Van Halen, and Clapton? Then this is the perfect page for you! Follow this and ...more

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How To Prepare Your Guitar for a Gig

Prepare Your Guitar for a Gig

Ever play a show and have everything go wrong? You break a string, drop your only pick, have your strap pop off, pull your patch cord out ...more

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How To Afford an Expensive Guitar

Afford an Expensive Guitar

Tired of staring at Les Pauls or Stratocasters locked up in that glass case? Here's how to take it home. Find some income. Some guitars are ...more

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How To Rapidly Learn to Play the Acoustic Guitar Yourself

Rapidly Learn to Play the Acoustic Guitar Yourself

Successfully learning how to play guitar is within the grasp of most ...more

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How To Spin a Guitar

Spin a Guitar

Have you ever wanted to spin a guitar over your shoulder? This trick has been pulled off by many professional guitarists over the years, and ...more

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How To Change Guitar Strings

Change Guitar Strings

Changing guitar strings is really not a complicated task, but it is for some reason intimidating to new guitarists. Intimidating or not, it ...more

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How To Get a Pick out of a Guitar

Get a Pick out of a Guitar

Do you constantly shell out money for new guitar picks each trip to the music store because unbeknownst to you, they can be rescued form the ...more

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How To Have Great Electric Guitar Tone

Have Great Electric Guitar Tone

The sound of an instrument goes a long way toward the quality of musical piece. Imagine a beautiful sonata played by the screeching sound of ...more

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How To Change Strings on an Acoustic Guitar

Change Strings on an Acoustic Guitar

Many people don't know how to change the guitar strings by themselves, so they bring the guitar to the instrument shop. But it will cost ...more

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How To Clean Guitar Strings

Clean Guitar Strings

Guitar strings are just as important as fret boards: You can't play a thing without em. So keeping the strings clean and smooth is extremely ...more

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How To Mod a Killswitch Into Your Guitar Hero Guitar (Strum)

Mod a Killswitch Into Your Guitar Hero Guitar (Strum)

A killswitch on a regular guitar cuts out the pickups on the guitar ...more

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How To Make Guitar Picks From Cardboard

Make Guitar Picks From Cardboard

Are you tired of having to buy guitar picks every time you lose one? Or, are you tired of using picks in colors and designs you don't like ...more

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How To Ease Finger Soreness when Learning to Play Guitar

Ease Finger Soreness when Learning to Play Guitar

Ask just about anyone who's learned to play guitar , and they'll tell ...more

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How To Make a Rubber Band Guitar

Make a Rubber Band Guitar

Have you ever wanted to make your own musical instrument? Now is your chance! By the time you finish reading this guide, you will be able to ...more

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How To Get Started Playing Hard Rock and Metal Guitar

Get Started Playing Hard Rock and Metal Guitar

This article is intended to show the beginner how to go from having no ...more

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How To Connect an Electric Guitar to a Combo Amp

Connect an Electric Guitar to a Combo Amp

If you’re considering getting an electric guitar, one of the first things you’ll need to know is how to connect it to an amplifier. While ...more

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How To String a Guitar for a Left Handed Player

String a Guitar for a Left Handed Player

A guitar, for a left handed player, is just the same as that of a right handed player with the only exception being that everything is ...more

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How To Play the Guitar and Sing at the Same Time

Play the Guitar and Sing at the Same Time

Singing and playing guitar can be tricky for a beginner but it is not impossible. A sense of good timing, rhythm and ability to combine two ...more

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How To Make Plastic Guitar Picks

Make Plastic Guitar Picks

If you play the guitar , now you've got a nifty way to recycle all of those old ID cards and fake credit cards you get in the mail . Find a ...more

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How To Choose a Guitar Amplifier for Rock Music

Choose a Guitar Amplifier for Rock Music

Although it is a simple matter to walk into the first music shop you see and pick out a guitar amplifier ("amp") at random, you will ...more

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How To Change Strings on a Bass Guitar

Change Strings on a Bass Guitar

A brief guide that is very simple and shows you a quick way to change the strings on your bass guitar. After you have done it once you'll ...more

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How To Use Power Chords on a Guitar

Use Power Chords on a Guitar

Ever felt like doing some power chords, but didn't know quite how? Put your first finger on any fret of any sting. For the sake of learning ...more

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How To Play Guitar Like Herman Li

Play Guitar Like Herman Li

This is going to show how to play guitar like Herman Li (and possibly better than Sam Totman) from DragonForce. Before even attempting this ...more

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Freehand Circle Drawing World Champion

Wait for it, wait for it... it happens really fast... at right about 1:05. Okay, maybe he's not a world champion, but a very cool party trick nonetheless. Here's one way to do it (not quite as perfect ...

Launch Cars Off Cliffs For Fun

More redneck fun. Bob Moravitz plus family and friends have created an 8 hour event of propelling vehicles off cliffs. Held yearly, admission is free but donations are encouraged (to cover insurance ...

Pimp Your Bike

That's right, cars aren't the only mode of transportation worth customizing. Dekochari, the Japanese art of pimping your bicycle: "Dekochari is a form of art bike indigenous to Japan dating back ...

Deadly Crossbow (Made With Newspaper)

Mythbusters decided to test whether an inmate could "kill another inmate across the hall using a crossbow made of newspaper": "Jamie and Adam built separate crossbows for the myth and ...

World's Most Badass Swing Set

My stomach is doing somersaults just watching this. Looks fun, albeit incredibly dangerous. Take it down a notch (or fifty) and build an indoor swing this winter. Previously, Deeply Trusting Female ...

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