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Experimenting with Open-D Tuning

Singers, slide players, and instrumentalists, try playing in Open-D tuning. Learn how to get into and experiment with an Open-D tuning in today’s excerpt from Explore Alternate Tunings. Open-D tuning (D...

New Guide! Learn to Swing Your Rhythm

Swinging the Beat teaches you how to swing your rhythm playing and dial in just the right amount for any situation that calls for it. This lesson covers the roots...

Add a Percussive Groove to Your Playing with Fr...

Use fretting-hand muting to put a little more of a percussive groove into your playing.  Excerpted from Rhythm Guitar Essentials. Strumming’s great, and once you can move smoothly from chord to...

New Product: Acoustic SP Strings from Martin

The Acoustic Guitar store is now offering strings! Check out our great offer on C.F. Martin & Co. Acoustic SP Strings MSP4100 Light Phosphor Bronze. One set of strings is...

Learn to Play 3 Common Crosspicking Patterns

There have been many crosspickers in flatpicking’s brief history, including Doc Watson, Dan Crary, and Clarence White. This excerpt will teach you to play 3 common crosspicking patterns.

Paul Simon Speaks Candidly About the Art and Cr...

In this excerpt from Rock Troubadors, Paul Simon discusses writing and arranging some of his most famous songs.