Intermediate Guide to Playing Guitar

Think you’re tone deaf? Nice try! You’ll soon find that tone deaf is a mythical concept. Learning how to play an instrument by ear is easier than you think.

Need a tried-and-true guitar exercise for developing your ear? This hum & hunt technique trains your ear and improves your relative pitch, no matter the genre.

In this intermediate guitar technique lesson, Your Guitar Sage breaks down how to do a picking-hand mute to add some rhythm and flare to a basic strum.

Johnny Cash did it with a dollar bill. But we're just going to hit our hand against the fret to create a snare drum sound with this cool guitar technique.

Always wanted to learn how to fingerpick? It may sound difficult, but it's quite easy to learn. This lesson covers basic exercises to develop your technique.