Weekly Workout: Modes Demystified – A Guide to the Seven Modes of the Major Scale
Learn the major scale’s modes and how to use their distinctive sounds to create melodies and chords on acoustic guitar.
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Stores That Do More: Four Community-Minded Guitar Shops
The four brick-and-mortar shops featured here—those stores that do more—fit the description by offering educational programs, hosting jam sessions, taking part in schools and community events, and fostering a welcoming space for musicians to explore and connect. As a result, they’ve found that community efforts have made them viable in a rapidly changing economy, while giving customers an enduring vehicle for connection.
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Josh Rosenthal of Tompkins Square Records on the Primacy of the Acoustic Guitar
Rosenthal champions underdog and idiosyncratic musicians, a good number of them working in his preferred setting of solo guitar
Top Gear 2018: AG Editors & Readers on the Best Gear of the Year
After several years of quiet trends in the acoustic guitar world, the legacy guitar brands announced big changes that will make this a year to remember.
Is the Acoustic Guitar God’s Favorite Instrument?
How the acoustic guitar has shaped the modern music of the Judeo-Christian liturgy. For an instrument that’s been so vital to the evolution of popular music over the past century, the guitar has traveled a long road in finding its…
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Play the Blues Like… | Acoustic Guitar Champions
Learn the styles of 12 all-time great pre- and postwar guitarists, from Elizabeth Cotten to Charley Patton to Alvin Youngblood Hart.
Rory Block Slides Into a New Tribute Series: Power Women of the Blues
Guitarist, singer, and songwriter Rory Block has been one of the country’s preeminent blues artists for more than four decades and close to 30 albums now, but if you haven’t checked in with her in the past dozen years, you’ve missed out on some of the best music she’s ever made.
Steve Dawson Finds New Textures for Guitar Instrumentals
Steve Dawson may not be a household name, but with the release of 2014’s Rattlesnake Cage, he put himself on the radar of many acoustic guitar fans.
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Guitar Mash Nashville: Songs Shared, Bridges Built
It goes without saying that bluegrass dobro titan Jerry Douglas is no stranger to the bandstand. Still, even Douglas had to admit that co-hosting a “Guitar Mash” at Nashville’s City Winery on April 7, 2018, alongside longtime Paul Simon musical…
Scottish Songs for Guitar | Acoustic Guitar Champions
Learn to play 15 Scottish classics, with standard notation and tablature, complete lyrics, and background information.