How the guitar communities compare
A few giants dominate — r/Guitar, r/guitarlessons and r/guitarpedals together account for 81% of the combined membership. r/Guitar is both the biggest and the busiest, with about 142 new posts a day. Per member, the liveliest is r/metalguitar: 21 posts a day from 46.6K members — a smaller crowd, but an engaged one. The oldest is r/Guitar, founded in 2008, and every community here is more than five years old — this is a long-established corner of Reddit.
The 14 biggest guitar subreddits
r/Guitar 3,455,261 members · ~142 posts/day · +3K since Oct 19 · since 2008Welcome to r/guitar, a community devoted to the exchange of guitar related information. This is a forum where guitarists, from novice to experienced, can explore the world of guitar through a variety of media and discussion. If y…
- Gr/guitarlessons 367,920 members · ~28 posts/day · since 2009
A subreddit dedicated to learning guitar. Post lessons, ask questions, and get feedback on your playing on Feedback Fridays. The community is open to all people of all styles!
- Gr/guitarpedals ↗ 271,030 members · ~63 posts/day · since 2009
A place to discuss effects and pedals!
- Gr/guitars ↗ 207,514 members · ~27 posts/day · since 2009
/r/guitars is a place for people to post pictures of and discuss everything about guitars i.e. electric, acoustic, lap, steel, bass, amps, pedals, strings, picks, etc. Basically anything with strings. Feel free to post pics of yo…
- Gr/guitarcirclejerk ↗ 149,794 members · ~29 posts/day · since 2011
Are you serious about guitar? Do you spend three hours a day practicing? Do you have an extensive Gibbons collection? Then this isn't the place for you.
- Gr/GuitarAmps ↗ 140,157 members · ~33 posts/day · since 2012
Guitar & Bass Amps, discuss, share, and learn about amplifiers!
- Br/BassGuitar ↗ 120,874 members · ~25 posts/day · since 2009
/r/BassGuitar serves as the media-based complement to the discussion-based /r/bass subreddit. Here you can post photos, videos, and links, as long as it is bass guitar related.
- Ar/AcousticGuitar ↗ 85,907 members · ~22 posts/day · since 2009
Welcome to AcousticGuitar! - a place for fingerstyle, flatpicking, tapping, body percussion and good old strumming. All styles are welcome here!
- Cr/classicalguitar ↗ 66,600 members · ~11 posts/day · since 2011
The classical guitar subreddit - a gathering place for practicing classical guitarists and fans of the classical guitar. Post your questions, share your finds, and get some encouragement from other redditors just like you.
- Jr/jazzguitar ↗ 59,654 members · ~11 posts/day · since 2011
A community for jazz guitarists and lovers of jazz guitar.
- Mr/metalguitar ↗ 46,572 members · ~21 posts/day · since 2011
r/MetalGuitar is a community exclusively for sharing and discussing techniques, resources, news, pictures, videos, and information regarding Metal guitar.
- Lr/LearnGuitar ↗ 40,309 members · ~12 posts/day · since 2009
For anyone who wants to learn guitar or improve their skills. Join us on Discord!
- Gr/gibson ↗ 38,993 members · ~17 posts/day · since 2011
A place to show off your Gibson guitars, amps, or asking about things and solving your Gibson problems, etc…
- Gr/Guitar_Theory ↗ 31,163 members · ~1.0 posts/day · since 2015
A place for guitarists to ask questions and discuss music theory concepts.
Choosing where to post
For beginner questions, r/LearnGuitar is the natural first stop — it exists for advice, and roughly 12 new threads a day keep it moving. Asking the same thing in r/Guitar often gets it removed or lost among the 142 daily posts. Jokes and memes have their own home in r/guitarcirclejerk; the serious communities tend to remove them, so keep the two apart.
Before posting, sort a subreddit by “Top” for the past month: it shows in a minute what that community rewards. Always read the rules in the sidebar first — each community is run by its own volunteer moderators. Our guide to searching Reddit explains how to dig through any of these communities, and the subreddit info tool gives you the stats of one we don't list.
Frequently asked questions
Which guitar subreddit has the most members?
r/Guitar is the largest, with 3,455,261 members, followed by r/guitarlessons (367.9K) and r/guitarpedals (271K).
Where are the most new guitar posts?
By new posts per day, r/Guitar leads with about 142, ahead of r/guitarpedals (63). Counts are averages over the last seven days.
Which guitar subreddit is best for questions?
r/LearnGuitar is the one built around questions and advice, with about 12 new posts a day. Check its rules and search it first — common questions have usually been answered.
How many guitar communities are on this list?
We list 14 active, safe-for-work guitar communities with at least 25,000 members each, 5.1M members in total (people can be in several). Reddit has many smaller ones too; our guide on searching Reddit shows how to find them.
What is the oldest guitar subreddit?
r/Guitar, created on May 28, 2008.
Are these guitar subreddits safe for work?
Yes. Every community on this page is public and not marked 18+ by Reddit, and we filter out communities whose name or description points to adult content.
Data: Reddit's public subreddit search and the Arctic Shift archive (Oct 30, 2026), growth from SubMouse's weekly snapshots. Member counts of communities outside our Top 1000 come from the archive and can lag a little. Not affiliated with Reddit.