A Guitar Tribute to J.S. Bach on His 336th Birthday
Here is J.S. Bach’s transcendental prelude to Cello Suite No. 1 performed on acoustic guitar. Learn the history of this arrangement and find advice for learning to play it yourself.
Lessons
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.
Campfire Songs: Learn to Strum “Let Me Call You Sweetheart”
From the May/June 2021 issue of Acoustic Guitar | By Kate KoenigWritten by Leo Friedman and Beth Slater Whitson, “Let Me Call You ... Read More...
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.
“Black Velvet Band” — Learn to Play this Popular Irish Waltz
This waltz-time tale is quite straightforward and easy to sing and play, as the chorus and the verses follow the same melody and chord changes.
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...