What is a "short scale" guitar? What is a "12-fret guitar"? Are they the same?

Admittedly, this was something even I was confused about early on.  For a while, I was incorrectly referring to 12-fret guitars as "short scale" guitars, assuming they were one-in-the-same.

In fact, a guitar's scale length and its number of frets are mutually exclusive.  (Just because a guitar only has 12 frets, doesn't mean it's a short scale, and vice-versa.)

Hohner "Pocket Pal" Harmonica (Klutz)

Quick & Dirty Tutorial: How to play Pink's "Just Give Me a Reason" on ukulele (finger picking)

This is an awesome little picking riff to add to your repertoire.  It's fun and it's pretty simple because you're mostly holding chords the whole time.

How to cheat at playing the guitar!

The easiest way to play the guitar, period.