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Learn the First 8 Bars from Our Fingerstyle Arr...

Excerpted from Gospel Songs for Fingerstyle GuitarPosted by Steve Baughman I have arranged “Go Tell It on the Mountain” here as an alternating-thumb piece with a bit of a bluesy...

Learn the First 8 Bars from Our Fingerstyle Arr...

Excerpted from Gospel Songs for Fingerstyle GuitarPosted by Steve Baughman I have arranged “Go Tell It on the Mountain” here as an alternating-thumb piece with a bit of a bluesy...

Here's How to Break Up Easy Chords to Create Ro...

Excerpted from Acoustic Rock Basics Many of the best licks and riffs by artists like the Beatles and Neil Young are really just made up of bits and pieces of...

Here's How to Break Up Easy Chords to Create Ro...

Excerpted from Acoustic Rock Basics Many of the best licks and riffs by artists like the Beatles and Neil Young are really just made up of bits and pieces of...

Open String Carter-Style Hammer-Ons

Carter-style guitar playing may be primarily based around first-position chord shapes, but within that simple framework there are plenty of ways to make the music come to life.

Open String Carter-Style Hammer-Ons

Carter-style guitar playing may be primarily based around first-position chord shapes, but within that simple framework there are plenty of ways to make the music come to life.

Songwriting Tip: Write First, Think Later

Excerpted from Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers' Songwriting Basics for Guitarists: Free Writing Write first, think later. For songwriting as well as any other kind of creative writing, I’m a firm believer in this...

Songwriting Tip: Write First, Think Later

Excerpted from Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers' Songwriting Basics for Guitarists: Free Writing Write first, think later. For songwriting as well as any other kind of creative writing, I’m a firm believer in this...

4 Guitar Myths Debunked

“Cracks in the top of a guitar ruin the sound" is just one of the common guitar myths we set straight in today’s excerpt from the Acoustic Guitar Owner’s Manual.  ...

4 Guitar Myths Debunked

“Cracks in the top of a guitar ruin the sound" is just one of the common guitar myths we set straight in today’s excerpt from the Acoustic Guitar Owner’s Manual.  ...

Add Minor-Seventh Chords to Your Acoustic Rock ...

Excerpted from Acoustic Rock Essentials: Seventh Chords Minor-seventh chords are common in pop and rock, and Example 12 shows this chord in a progression similar to the bridge in “Norwegian...

Add Minor-Seventh Chords to Your Acoustic Rock ...

Excerpted from Acoustic Rock Essentials: Seventh Chords Minor-seventh chords are common in pop and rock, and Example 12 shows this chord in a progression similar to the bridge in “Norwegian...