How Guitarists Can Play with Less Pain and More Balance with Lessons from the Martial Arts
These body awareness tips from the martial arts can help ward guitarists off unnecessary tension and pain before they become problematic.
Guitar Technique
Learn to Create Guitar Accompaniments and Solos for Traditional Songs with Happy Traum
In this acoustic guitar lesson Happy Traum demonstrates how to bring traditional songs to life using moving bass lines, varying chord choices, fills, and other techniques
Which Alternate Tunings are Most Commonly Used on Blues Guitar?
The two principal open tunings used in blues guitar playing have old, vernacular American names that I still like to use: Vastopol and Spanish.
How to Create Literature-Inspired Narrative Compositions for Solo Acoustic Guitar
This guitar lesson explores how to approach narrative solo guitar composition through harmonic movements, ways to lyrically deliver a melody, and the use of silence.
Reimagining a Fernando Sor Etude as a String-Crossing Guitar Workout
This guitar lesson breaks down the mechanics of string crossing and applies it all to a classical guitar etude by Fernando Sor to help build up picking-hand precision.
Guitar Lesson: Using Augmented Arpeggios to Add Dreamlike Sequences
In this guitar lesson, learn fretboard exercises to play beautiful, dreamlike augmented arpeggios for soloing and composing in any style.
30 Ways to Improve Your Acoustic Guitar Tone
Improve your acoustic guitar tone with these 30 tips and techniques for fretting-hand, flatpicking, and fingerstyle playing for both your right and left hands.
Beginning Fingerpicking: How to Play Melody and Bass Lines at the Same Time
Guitarist Mary Flower demonstrates how to play melodies and bass notes at the same time on acoustic guitar via an exercise she calls "Nimble Fingers."
Make the Most of Your Capo: 4 Essential Concepts
When used as a tool—and not merely a crutch—a capo can offer inspiration and creativity for guitar players of all skill levels. Here are 4 essential concepts for using a capo on guitar.
Video Lesson: How to Get Great Tone with Michael Chapdelaine
Michael Chapdelaine teaches you to get good guitar tone by relearning your picking-hand approach.