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Maximize Your Guitar’s Performance and Playability

Sponsored by Santa Cruz Guitar Company: Over nearly 50 years, Santa Cruz Guitar Company has set the standards for modern acoustic guitar building. For over a decade, part of that standard has been pioneering the use of Plek technology to maximize…

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August 24, 2023

Guides and How To

A Guide to Commissioning the Custom Guitar of Your Dreams

Collaborating with a luthier can result in an instrument that satisfies performance needs, creative desires, or both.

Greg Olwell
July 30, 2023
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Songs

Updated Acoustic Guitar Song List, 1990 to 2023

Sample song pages and covers from past issues of Acoustic Guitar magazine

We've published the music to more than 1,500 songs in Acoustic Guitar magazine since 1990. Now you can easily locate the issue in which a song appeared.

Album Reviews

‘Myriad Worlds’ Is a Bold Debut from Percussive Fingerstyle Guitarist and Composer Janet Noguera

Noguera's debut release showcases her effortless-sounding use of tapping and drum-like effects on her Lowden and Maton guitars.

Adam Perlmutter
June 20, 2023

Fingerstyle, Sing and Play

Play Happy Traum’s Fingerstyle Arrangement of “Worried Blues” on Acoustic Guitar

Happy Traum picking a Santa Cruz Guitar Company Happy Traum Signature Model HT/13 at his home in Woodstock, NY

“It’s one of those lonesome blues things, but it’s not a standard 12-bar blues... It’s more like a folk song,” says Traum

Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers
May 26, 2023

Guides and How To

How to Buy Used Guitars from Private Sellers Safely and Smartly

open laptop computer showing a website that sells guitars

Here are some tips to get the best deals on the best used guitars and music gear from Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace, or any private seller, safely & smartly.

Greg Olwell
February 8, 2023

Guitar Care and Repair

How to Best Take Care of Your Guitars—When They’re Not in Your Hands

guitar cabinet by American Music Furniture

With a little thought into how you store and display your guitars, you can keep them in optimal shape, ready to receive your ideas when inspiration strikes.

Adam Perlmutter
January 20, 2023

Guides and How To

Parlor Guitars: A Brief History and Buyer’s Guide

a line up of parlor guitar models fender alvarez washburn and martin

Interest in small-bodied parlor guitars—precursors to the bulky modern dreadnought—is skyrocketing. Learn all about these guitars, why players love them, and which model could be right for you.

Adam Perlmutter
December 15, 2022
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Discover Santa Cruz Parabolic Tension Strings

Sponsored by Santa Cruz Guitar Company: When it comes to strings, it’s all about tension. While gauge is simply the measurement of the string’s diameter, the tension of a string determines its relative volume to the other strings (EQ). String…