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.
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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.
Learn Gretchen Menn’s Challenging Chord-Melody Arrangement of “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling”
Guitarist Gretchen Menn based this lovely chord-melody guitar arrangement of "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" on a version that vocalist Bing Crosby recorded in 1939.
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.
Guitar Basics: 3 Simple Tips to Get Better at Strumming
In this guitar lesson you'll learn three tips for improving your strumming: how to grip the pick, strumming open strings, then adding chords.
Learn Peppino D’Agostino’s ‘Dancing with Shadows’
“As in a painting, the melody should be the subject right up front, close to your eyes, and the bass should be the mountains in the background,” D’Agostino says.
Fingerstyle Legend Will Ackerman Plays a New Piece, “I Had to Go There,” in a Radical Open Tuning
Will Ackerman's “I Had to Go There,” from album Positano Songs, cohas a striking tuning of F C Eb Ab C Eb. Watch and hear him play it in this video and try your hand at playing along.
How To Play Lead Belly’s Version of the Blues Ballad “John Hardy”
This guitar transcription of Lead Belly's blues murder ballad "John Hardy" uses the tuning of low-B from the 1940 Library of Congress recording.