Exploring Slide Guitar Outside of Blues
While slide guitar is perhaps most commonly associated with the blues, it can be used to excellent effect in a range of other styles.
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Learning the Nuts and Bolts of Slide Guitar
Here are some tips from contemporary players Jontavious Willis, Kelly Joe Phelps, and Jimmy Page
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Getting Started with Slide Guitar
The slide allows the guitarist to find the notes between notes—those places between the frets where the slippery quality of human emotion runs.
Colorful Scales and Sweet Harmonies for the Advancing Guitarist
The whole-tone, natural minor, harmonic minor, and melodic minor scales on acoustic guitar can bring intriguing mystery and bittersweet emotion to your music.
Learn How to Practice and Solo with Scales on Acoustic Guitar
Working on your scales can lead to greater fluidity on your guitar and more.
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Exploring the Open Tunings of 3 Prolific Singer-Songwriters
The use of open tunings can open up a whole new world for singer/songwriters looking to establish their own voice on acoustic guitar. Here we take a look at Richard Thompson, Joni Mitchell, and Laurence Juber's use of open tunings and the effect it has on their songwriting.
How to Sharpen Your Time-Keeping Skills on Guitar
Developing a solid sense of time is essential for all musicians
Perfect Your Practice: 3 Approaches to Warming Up on Guitar
It's a bad idea to practice without warming up both hands first
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Acoustic Guitar Auction Results
Many thanks to the bidders in the Acoustic Guitar 30th Anniversary Auction, which ended at midnight on Sunday, May 10. Many people have asked why these guitars are considered so special. The reason: Only two of each model was ever…
Bidding Starts with a Bang in the Acoustic Guitar Auction
More than 275 bids were submitted in the first of our three-week-long Acoustic Guitar 30th Anniversary Auction, with six of the 12 instruments already meeting their reserve prices. Guitars by Taylor, Collings, Martin, and Yamaha have been the most hotly…
Place Your Bid on Our Custom Santa Cruz PJ
When we used to display the 12 custom guitars in Acoustic Guitar magazine’s 10th Anniversary Collection on our office walls, it was always fun to see visitors’ reactions to the instruments. The one that seemed to pique their curiosity most…
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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 instruments from Breedlove, Collings, Gibson, Guild, Larriveé, Martin, National Resophonic, Ovation, RainSong, Santa Cruz, Taylor, and Yamaha, all…
Place Your Bid on Our Custom Collings D41
By DAVID LUSTERMAN Like all 12 custom guitars in Acoustic Guitar magazine’s 10th Anniversary Collection, for many years we displayed our Collings D41 on an office wall. I called it ‘Il Cannone’ – The Cannon – the nickname Nicolò Paganini…
Hear Gretchen Menn Play Our Custom Santa Cruz PJ
This custom 2000 Santa Cruz PJ is from Acoustic Guitar magazine’s 10th Anniversary Collection. In celebration of our 30th anniversary in 2020, we’re putting our collection up for auction from April 20 through May 10, giving you the opportunity to…
Hear Dix Bruce Play Our Custom Martin HD-28V
This custom 2000 Martin HD-28V is from Acoustic Guitar magazine’s 10th Anniversary Collection. In celebration of our 30th anniversary in 2020, we’re putting our collection up for auction, starting on April 20 and closing on May 10, giving you the…
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Hear Gretchen Menn Play Our Custom Ovation Adamas CVT
This custom 2000 Ovation Adamas CVT is from Acoustic Guitar magazine’s 10th Anniversary Collection. In celebration of our 30th anniversary in 2020, we’re putting our collection up for auction from April 20 through May 10, giving you the opportunity to…
Hear Mimi Fox Play Our Custom Taylor 914C
This Taylor 914C Custom 2000 is from Acoustic Guitar magazine’s 10th Anniversary Collection. In celebration of our 30th anniversary in 2020, we’re putting our collection up for auction from April 20 through May 10, giving you the opportunity to bid…
Hear Pete Madsen Play Our Custom RainSong WS1000
This custom 2000 RainSong WS1000 is from Acoustic Guitar magazine’s 10th Anniversary Collection. In celebration of our 30th anniversary in 2020, we’re putting our collection up for auction from April 20 through May 10, giving you the opportunity to bid…
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Hear Dix Bruce Play Our Custom Larriveé LV-10
This custom 2000 Larriveé LV-10 is from Acoustic Guitar magazine’s 10th Anniversary Collection. In celebration of our 30th anniversary in 2020, we’re putting our collection up for auction from April 20 through May 10, giving you the opportunity to bid…
Hear Mimi Fox Play Our Custom Guild JF65-12
This custom 2000 Guild JF65-12 is from Acoustic Guitar magazine’s 10th Anniversary Collection. In celebration of our 30th anniversary in 2020, we’re putting our collection up for auction from April 20 through May 10, giving you the opportunity to bid…
Hear Pete Madsen Play Our Custom National Style O Deluxe
This custom 2000 National Resophonic Style O Deluxe is from Acoustic Guitar magazine’s 10th Anniversary Collection. In celebration of our 30th anniversary in 2020, we’re putting our collection up for auction from April 20 through May 10, giving you the…
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Hear Mimi Fox Play Luis Bonfá’s ‘Gentle Rain’ on Our Custom Yamaha CPX15N
This custom 2000 Yamaha CPX15N is from Acoustic Guitar magazine’s 10th Anniversary Collection. In celebration of our 30th anniversary in 2020, we’re putting our collection up for auction from April 20 through May 10, giving you the opportunity to bid…
Watch Marcin Patrzalek’s Fingerstyle Arrangement of Beethoven’s 5th at Winter NAMM 2020
AG caught up with fingerstyle phenom and 2019 America’s Got Talent semi-finalist Marcin Patrzalek for a private performance of Beethoven’s 5th at the Fishman booth at this year’s Winter NAMM show in Anaheim, California. Playing an Ibanez AE900-NT acoustic equipped…
Yamaha Introduces NX Nylon String Acoustic Guitar Series at NAMM 2020
Shannon with Yamaha showed us the new nylon string NX series at NAMM 2020. There are six guitars broken down into two groups of three: the NTX and NCX lines. The NTX is named for its a thinner body depth,…
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PRS Guitars Shows New SE Tonare Grande and SE Angelus Acoustics at NAMM 2020
Watch PRS Guitars musician/endorser Bryan Ewald as he shows us two different models in their SE series of acoustic guitars: The T55E is a gorgeous instrument with a Sitka spruce top and quilted maple back and sides, while the A40E…
