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...
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.
Excerpted from The Way Music Works | BY GRETCHEN MENNTHE PROBLEMWhile you’re familiar with the basic major and minor triads, any numbers ... Read More...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.