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Learn to Play the Christmas Anthem "Joy to the World"

Posted by Kelsey Holt on December 2, 2013

The Christmas anthem "Joy to the World" works beautifully for solo fingerstyle guitar. Learn to play the intro with the help of this excerpt from Holiday Songs for Fingerstyle Guitar.

Learn to Play the Classic Blues Song "Oh Daddy"

Posted by Kelsey Holt on August 5, 2013

This excerpt from Arranging Folk and Blues Songs focuses on thumb rolls and how they can help “fatten up” the sound of the solo guitar.

Up-The-Neck Octave Exercises

Posted by Kelsey Holt on July 26, 2013

Get ready to stretch. These up-the-neck octave exercises from the Weekly Workout series will help you learn the fingerboard.

Move Up the Fingerboard with Ascending Seventh-Chord Arpeggios

Posted by Kelsey Holt on July 19, 2013

In the Weekly Workout called “Move It On Up,” we worked on patterns that move up the fingerboard instead of across it. This workout takes a similar approach with some ascending seventh-chord arpeggios. Excerpted from Weekly Workout: Three-Against-Four Rhythms To turn them into three-note arpeggios we’ll omit the fifth of each one. The first four measures show Gmaj7 (G, B, F#), Am7 (A, C, G), Bm7 (B, D, A), Cmaj7 (C, E, B), and D7 (D, F#, C) arpeggios moving up the bottom three strings. Measures 3–4 repeat this progression in the key of C on the fifth, fourth, and...

Move Up the Fingerboard with Ascending Seventh-Chord Arpeggios

Posted by Kelsey Holt on July 19, 2013

Pace yourself and expect some careful shifting as you play through the measures in this excerpt from the Weekly Workout series.