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Learn to play guitar: The best online lessons and classes you can take from home
Whether you want to strum chords or play songs by ear, these classes have it all.
My father played the guitar when I was growing up and always kept a stack of well-worn songbooks from Harry Chapin, Don McLean and John Prine nearby. When my parents gave me a Takamine acoustic guitar for my birthday as a teenager, I consulted those same songbooks for my first foray into guitar playing. I admittedly I fell away from the practice over time, but being quarantined during the coronavirus lockdown is the perfect time to pick a rusty skill back up or learn a new one.