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Watch How to Go from Standard to Open-G Tuning
By Orville Johnson | Excerpted from Acoustic Blues Guitar Basics.Let’s start by getting into open G (D G D G B D) from standard tuning. Lower both E string... Read More...
Learn to Play J.S. Bach’s ‘Bourrée in E Minor’ for Guitar
Even if you’re not a classical player, mastering pieces such as this offers a great learning experience for any fingerstyle guitarist, because it not only teaches picking-hand techniques that are independent of set patterns but also demonstrates excellent form and structure.
Start Enriching Your Music Now with Seventh Chords
Excerpted from The Way Music Works | BY GRETCHEN MENNTHE PROBLEMWhile you’re familiar with the basic major and minor triads, any numbers ... Read More...
How to Use Guide Tone Voicings in Fingerstyle Jazz
By Sean McGowan | Excerpted from Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar EssentialsSeparating parts on the piano is fairly easy, because each hand is essentially free to f... Read More...
Bidding Begins Today in Our 10th Anniversary Auction!
Time to mount up and proceed to the starting gate: Bidding begins today on the Acoustic Guitar 10th Anniversary Custom Guitar Auction.Unique custom instrum... Read More...
Practice with a Metronome to Shift Between Chords
This brief exercise is excerpted from Rhythm and Strumming Basics by Josh Workman.Let’s start working on some chord shifting by changing between G and ... Read More...
Geoff Muldaur on How to Find Your Own Voice
How does one find their own style that is informed by the blues legends but does not mimic them?
Play an Easy Version of the Traditional Song “Darling Corey”
By David Hamburger | Excerpted from The Acoustic Guitar MethodTry wrapping your hands around a G chord (see chord diagram below in the music to "Darling Corey... Read More...
‘Small Town Talk’ Explores the Lives of Woodstock’s Famous Inhabitants
It was the Laurel Canyon of the Catskills. In 1969, the forested artist community of Woodstock, in upstate New York, contributed its name to a nearby music festival that many regard as the apex of the 1960s counterculture.
