Easy Fingerpicking Lesson: How to Play “House of the Rising Sun”
"House of the Rising Sun" is surprisingly easy and fun to play on guitar. Learn a basic picking pattern and get rocking!
The Acoustic Guitar Method is the only beginning guitar method based on traditional American music that teaches you authentic techniques and songs. From the folk, blues, and old-time music of yesterday have come the rock, country, and jazz of today. Now you can begin understanding, playing, and enjoying these essential traditions and styles on the instrument that truly represents American music, the acoustic guitar.
Here are a few excerpts from the complete series.
Five Questions for David Hamburger, Author of ‘The Acoustic Guitar Method’
We checked in to learn about what David's been up to lately and to hear his suggestions on remote learning.
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Play an Easy Version of the Traditional Song “Darling Corey”
Here is a simple version of "Darling Corey" using two chords, A and G, that will give you plenty of practice switching between those two chords.
Learn to Easily Switch Between Acoustic Guitar Chords by Pivoting on an Anchor Finger
When switching between some chords, like A and D, you are able to pivot around the index finger, holding it down while you move your other fingers around it.
Country Backup Basics
So here it is, our first bass/strum move. It’s not so different from doing four straight downstroke strums, except that the first strum is replaced with a single note, the root of the chord.
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Seventh Chords
The G7 chord, as you might guess, is closely related to G...
Video Lesson: Three Tips for Playing Chords Cleanly
Getting a full chord sound depends on where you place your fingers and how hard you press on the strings.
Learn to Play “Scarborough Fair”
“Scarborough Fair” has been around for centuries, but it was popularized in the 1960s by Paul Simon’s arrangement of it for Simon and Garfunkel.