Guides
Player Guides
Plain-language guides for buying, learning, and maintaining guitars. No gear snobbery, no theory gatekeeping, and prices in real dollars.
The First Guitar Buying Guide
Budget, action, sizes, and the one question that filters good stores from bad ones.
How to Choose a Guitar Teacher
The questions to ask, the red flags, fair 2026 rates, and when you do not need a teacher at all.
Guitar Setup and Repair Cost Guide
2026 prices for setups, fretwork, nut work, electronics, and structural repairs, plus what is worth fixing.
The Beginner Gear Checklist
Everything a new player actually needs, what each item costs, and the popular purchases that can wait.
Guitar Sizes Explained: Kids, Small Hands, and Travel
1/4 to full size, what age fits what, and why the wrong size ends more kid guitar careers than anything else.
How to Read Chord Diagrams and Tabs
The two notation systems that require zero music theory, explained in ten minutes.
Interactive
Free tools
Chord Transposer and Capo Calculator
Paste a chord progression, shift keys, and find the capo fret that turns hard chords into easy shapes.
Beginner Guitar Chord Library
Every chord a beginner needs, drawn as clear diagrams with finger numbers. No ads, no signup.
Online Metronome
A free browser metronome with tap tempo, accents, and common time signatures. No app, no ads.