Guitar lessons: Before the chemical-fuelled studio experimentation of their psychedelic ‘middle’ period, The Beatles were a remarkably well-honed hit machine. Their live-in-the-studio performances ...

Paul McCartney's inspired playing on the Beatles' Blackbird has become a bit of a rite of passage for fingerpicking guitar players. But therein lies a problem – a lot of us are learning it wrong.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From left, George Harrison (playing a Gretsch 6119 Tennessean guitar with Bigsby vibrato) and John Lennon (playing a Rickenbacker ...