A Simple but Effective Plan to Make the Most of Your Guitar Practice Time

Here's how you can set yourself up to illuminate your progress on practicing guitar as you make it—and have more fun as you do it.

Video Lesson: Exploring Blues Turnarounds

In this acoustic guitar lesson you'll learn a bunch of blues-based turnarounds in different keys—great moves to have at your fingertips when playing the blues.

Exploring Fingerstyle Guitar Techniques in Celtic Music with the Traditional Welsh Song ‘Men of Harlech’

This acoustic guitar lesson explores some common techniques and ornaments associated with Welsh music & how they can be used to great effect in your playing.

Blues Lesson: Learn Jontavious Willis’ Take on “Poor Boy, Long Ways from Home”

Here's an open-G arrangement of the traditional blues tune "Poor Boy, Long Ways from Home"

How to Strengthen Your Picking Skills Through Efficient Patterns

In this guitar lesson you'll learn economy picking, which includes alternate and sweep picking styles, as well as legato techniques for your fretting fingers.

Learn 6 Ways to Play D Major 7 | Chord by Chord

BY KATE KOENIG Welcome to the latest installment of Chord by Chord, a series designed to build your understanding of harmony and the fretboard. In previous ... Read More...

Open Tuning Lesson: How to Play the Blues in DADGAD

In this lesson, I’ll show you some fingerpicking exercises based on some of my blues in DADGAD ideas.

Guitar Lesson: How to Play the Blues Like R.L. Burnside

If you like your blues with funky drive, listening to and learning Burnside’s riffs and licks will get your mojo working. Learn to play in his raw percussive style.

Guitar Lesson: Fingerpicking on the Blues in C Major

Here are 3 ways to play a 12-bar blues in C major on guitar, through the lens of the old blues masters, so you can incorporate more nuances into your playing.

Learn Chord-Melody Techniques from Jazz Guitarist Eddie Lang

Here are some ideas from jazz great Eddie Lang for some new chord melody techniques and textures on guitar, applied to the verse of the old standard “After You’ve Gone.”