Guitar skills: Rakes can be picked in either direction, down or up. The idea is to pick the muted strings and then sound only the fretted note at the end of the rake. The mute is achieved by ...

Pushing a string up or pulling it down raises the pitch of the note you're playing. This is called string bending. The technique can be used to create singing, vocal-like phrases that other ...

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 ...