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Want to help us create a new Acoustic Guitar shirt? Here’s how you can help: grab a marker and piece of paper and doodle a guitar. We’ll use your doodle in the design for a new Acoustic Guitar t-shirt. Once you’ve doodled your guitar, we’ll need you to photograph it (or scan it) and send it here. We’ll take it from there! 1. Lay your doodle down on a table near a window or under a bright light 2. Stand above the table so the camera is looking straight down at the drawing (be sure not to block your light)...

Many of the great blues guitarists used open tunings. Learn how to get into open-G from standard tuning with the help of this excerpt from Acoustic Blues Guitar Basics.

​ Posted by Andrew DuBrockExcerpted from Acoustic Rock Essentials: Roots Fingerpicking in Acoustic Rock Artists like Steve Howe of Yes didn’t limit their influences to any one genre, often borrowing elements from bluegrass to incorporate into their fingerpicked pieces. Example 11 shows a fingerpicked line similar to a banjo roll or cross-picked guitar pattern similar to what he played in songs like “The Clap.” Notice how this example takes advantage of the open strings to create unique sounds. Example 12 shows a Howe-inspired fill that starts with some discordant notes but eventually resolves to the key of G. This example includes nondiatonic...