Marty Schwartz uploaded his first guitar tutorial in order to make sure one of his students was practicing. He now teaches people online through guitar tutorials and gets 7 million views a month.

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David Brent pays musical tribute to Slough, "my favourite place in the world", in the latest instalment in his YouTube guitar tutorial series. In the song he waxes lyrical about the virtues of his ...

As a late night game of ‘what’s the worst piece of recorded footage I can find on YouTube’ bears out, the online guitar lesson is among the lowest viewed, most painfully tedious and yet oddly ...

Ricky Gervais has launched his new David Brent YouTube series, releasing the first episode of his 'Learn Guitar' project. Gervais's hugely popular Office character has been revived for the new YouTube ...

Sean Burke’s idea for putting a guitar lesson on YouTube was simple: He had always enjoyed playing his guitar, an instrument he first picked up 32 years ago during the 1988 Calgary Olympics, and ...

Ricky Gervais has confirmed he will bring back his Office alter-ego David Brent to star in a new project. Credit: YouTube/Ricky Gervais Comedian and actor Ricky Gervais has confirmed he will bring ...

Two decades ago, my drum teacher Marty told me he was jealous of the millennial generation. When sweaty, teenage Marty learned to play in the 1970s, he wore out 10-second increments on his vinyl ...

A few months ago NPR told you about people teaching guitar on YouTube. Now one of them has had all his videos pulled from the site amid complaints of copyright infringement. NPR's Frank Langfitt ...