How Hammer-Ons, Pull-Offs, and Slides Can Make Your Guitar Solos Sing
In this lesson we'll explore techniques to connect notes to help you create a more flowing sound and open up expressive possibilities in your solos
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Discover the Creative Power of Transposing on Guitar
Learning to play songs in different keys by actually transposing and understanding the resulting chords and melodies can transform your guitar playing.
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Updated Acoustic Guitar Song List, 1990 through 2024
We've published the music to more than 1,500 songs in Acoustic Guitar magazine since 1990. Now you can easily locate the issue in which a song appeared.
Learn to Comp Like Jazz Legend Freddie Green
Green’s rhythm style—quarter-note strums in 4/4 time (aka “four to the floor”)—seems simple enough. But it’s rarely mastered.
The Perennially Eclectic Guitarist Ralph Towner Is Still Defying Categorization
At 83, the prolific guitarist/composer continues to write and record vital, involving pieces.
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Classical Guitarist Adam Levin Bridges Multiple Styles on ‘21st Century Spanish Guitar’
Adam Levin's 21st Century Spanish Guitar Vol. 4 chronicles the most recent chapter in the Spanish guitar legacy by spotlighting new solo works (and one concerto).
Guitar Talk: Gene Bertoncini and His Unique Nylon-String Approach to Jazz
Over his 5-decade career, guitarist Gene Bertoncini has worked with many musical greats in many different styles, from jazz—his specialty—to pop to Brazilian.
Ravel, Debussy, and More on ‘Intimate Impressions’ From Adam Cicchillitti and Steve Cowan
"Intimate Impressions" by Canadian classical guitarists Adam Cicchillitti and Steve Cowan draws on their own arrangements of piano works by Ravel and Debussy.
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Learn Fingerstyle Master Alex de Grassi’s Sophisticated Style
De Grassi’s concepts and techniques on his album The Bridge are both subtler and more complex than standard steel-string fare
Album Review: On Steve Hicks’ ‘Rule of Thumb,’ Old Tunes Are Enlivened by Fingerpicking Mastery
As the title of Steve Hicks’ Rule of Thumb indicates, the British fingerstylist’s solo showcase of old-time music is tied together by his alternating bass thumb technique,
