Broaden Your Chord Options With These 10 Acoustic Guitar Lessons
If you're trying to get more creative in your guitar chord playing, there are some simple things you can try out. Adding embellishments to open-position chords ...
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Perfect Your Performance Techniques With These 9 Acoustic Guitar Lessons From Clive Carroll
When learning to play the guitar, there are many paths one can take. One of these is learning to play the acoustic guitar. Composing and performing music on the...
6 Fingerstyle Guitar Lessons To Inspire Your Song Writing
As songwriters, it helps to always be looking out for a inspiration. Often times that comes from an emotion or a memory. Even places can inspire you to write. W...
8 Fingerpicking Guitar Lessons To Help You Improve Your Acoustic Songwriting
Rhythm and groove are essential factors in any musical performance. These are what set the vibe of the song, which supports the story unfolding within song’s me...
5 Free Fingerpicking Guitar Lessons to Expand Your Creative Acoustic Playing
Most guitarists can pull at least a couple of fingerpicking patterns out of their pockets. The Travis picking pattern or simple arpeggios are some common ones. ...
Explore the History of Blues Guitar with 10 Free Lessons from Rev. Robert Jones
Muddy Waters, Elmore James, John Lee Hooker, Howlin’ Wolf are amongst several other blues prodigies of the 1940s we regard as the true pioneers of urban electri...
Learn About The History Of The Blues With These 2 Essential Guitar Song Lessons
Built primarily on blues music, Gospel is a relatively modern style originating in the ‘30s developing from a the influence of spirituals and hymns. In this edi...
Learn How Take Your Fingerstyle Guitar Playing to the Next Level with Boom-Chick
Boom-chick is a versatile technique employed by many great Fingerstyle guitar legends such as Mose Rager, Ike Everly, Doc Watson, and many more. This approach c...
9 Tricks to Spice Up Your Acoustic Rhythm Guitar Playing
There's a point where your acoustic guitar parts all start to sound the same, and feel somewhat bland. It's at this time where it's most important to look somew...
Learn “Chicken in the Rain” by John Knowles, C.G.P.
Composer, recording artist and master fingerstlye guitarist John Knowles was awarded the first honorary C.G.P. (Certified Guitar Player) degree by Chet Atkins h...
Tone Tips: Dialing in Great Acoustic-Electric Guitar Tone
Getting a great live sound from an amplified acoustic has been a problem plaguing guitarists for years. In this edition of Tone Tips, I’ll show you how to get ...
Build Your Vocabulary of Acoustic Rhythm Patterns with These 6 Free Guitar Lessons
Corey Congilio's Acoustic Rhythm Guitar Playbook is a great place to start to learn new, interesting, applicable guitar rhythms, whether you're a seasoned playe...