Getting Started with Slide Guitar
The focus of this month’s series is how to play slide guitar—an approach that first became popular through blues guitarists like Robert Johnson and Son House and Hawaiian musicians such as Sol Hoopii.
Guitar Technique
Learn Colorful Scales and Sweet Harmonies for the Advancing Guitarist
Explore the whole-tone scale as well as the natural minor, the harmonic minor, and the melodic minor scales.
Video Lesson: Learn to Fill the Gaps in Any Chord-Melody Guitar Arrangement
Learn to use tremolo picking on long notes and passing chords over multiple measures of rest to fill space in any chord-melody guitar arrangement.
Weekly Workout: Try These American Roots Licks for Warming Up or Composing
Grammy Award-winning roots musician Cathy Fink teaches licks drawn from folk, country, and bluegrass.
Learn 7 Ways to Play B Major | Chord By Chord
Learn all about B Major in the latest installment of Chord by Chord, a series designed to build your understanding of harmony and the fretboard.
Video 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 Use Modes and Pentatonic Scales on Guitar
In this acoustic guitar lesson we explore the modes of the major scale, as well as minor and major pentatonic scales.
Video Lesson: Exploring Dropped-D Fingerpicking
From the November 2018 issue of Acoustic Guitar | BY JEFFREY PEPPER RODGERSFingerpicking and dropped-D tuning fit together lik... Read More...
Learn 7 Ways to Play E Major | Chord by Chord
BY KATE KOENIGWelcome to the latest installment of Chord by Chord, a series designed to build your understanding of harmony and the fretboard. In the last ... Read More...
Learn How to Practice and Solo with Scales on Acoustic Guitar
Many guitarists dread practicing scales—those ascending and descending sequences of notes that revolve around a given pitch and determine tonality. But working... Read More...