Techniques for Creating Solo Guitar Arrangements of Traditional Tunes
In this guitar lesson you'll learn a handful of techniques for making solo guitar arrangements of ballads and trail songs: active bass runs, cross-picking, and hybrid picking.
Guitar Technique
Weekly Workout: Add Jazzy Walking Bass Lines to Your Accompaniments
Learn how to play walking bass lines with chords—a cool approach to have up your sleeve, no matter what style you play.
Watch Your Back: Practicing Healthy Approaches to Guitar Posture
Poor posture can lead to back and neck deterioration and neuromuscular disease in guitarists. Here are some steps to help keep you healthily seated with your guitar.
Improve Your Flatpicking Technique with These Mother Maybelle Carter-Inspired Exercises
In this guitar lesson, these arrangements of two songs by Mother Maybelle Carter will help develop your technique and understanding of the flatpicking idiom.
How the Music of Madagascar Can Expand Your Fingerstyle Guitar Playing
In this lesson, Bruce Molsky demonstrates how the guitar tradition from Madagascar takes in not only local music elements but classical and pop influences from everywhere.
Learn to Play Rock-Solid Rhythm Guitar
In this guitar lesson you will focus on tightening up your timing on rhythm guitar using a variety of different strumming rhythms.
Ease into Alternate Tuning with This Open D Minor Blues Guitar Lesson
In this guitar lesson, get a taste of open tunings by lowering your strings to open D minor, then playing a handful of chord shapes and applying them to a bluesy etude.
Crosspicking 101: A Private Bluegrass Lesson with Molly Tuttle
Crosspicking is an essential technique in the bluegrass guitar toolkit. Here's a bluegrass guitar crosspicking lesson from Molly Tuttle.
Tips on Arranging Celtic Harp Songs for Fingerstyle Guitar
Here are some tips for arranging and playing Celtic harp tunes on fingerstyle acoustic guitar, using the piece "Squire Woods Lament" as an example.
Guitar Lesson: Western Swing Rhythm Essentials
Learn the rhythm guitar techniques used in Western Swing music in this video lesson.