Improve your acoustic guitar tone with these tips and techniques for fretting-hand, flatpicking, and fingerstyle playing for both your right and left hands.
Posted by Scott Nygaard
Excerpted from Fiddle Tune Essentials
This flatpickers’ favorite is generally agreed to be of French-Canadian origin, but it has become ... Read More...
The campground jam favorite “Beaumont Rag” most likely started life near the East Texas town of Beaumont that it was named after. Recorded in the late 1920s by... Read More...
Posted by Scott Nygaard
Excerpted from Bluegrass Guitar Essentials
Here’s one thing that can throw off your pick direction in a fiddle tune: slurs, otherwis... Read More...
Posted by Scott Nygaard
Excerpted from Fiddle Tune Essentials
The traditional fiddle tune “Forked Deer” is an old American melody that was first notated i... Read More...
Posted by Scott Nygaard
Excerpted from Fiddle Tune Essentials
This flatpickers’ favorite is generally agreed to be of French-Canadian origin, but it has become ... Read More...
Because one of the things that makes something “easy” on the guitar is the presence of open strings, let’s see how many standard-tuning open-string notes can be found in flat keys.
By Scott Nygaard
Grab your guitar and start singing!
As award-winning folk guitarist, singer, songwriter, inventor, and educator Harvey Reid says in the liner... Read More...