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Use the Flat VI Chord in Your Blues Rock Songs

Use the Flat VI Chord in Your Blues Rock Songs

Note that in this excerpt, you’re playing all rock-style power chords, which have no thirds so are not explicitly major or minor.

Use the Flat VI Chord in Your Blues Rock Songs

Note that in this excerpt, you’re playing all rock-style power chords, which have no thirds so are not explicitly major or minor.

Play the Catalan Folk Song "El Testament d'Amelia"

Play the Catalan Folk Song "El Testament d'Amelia"

“El Testament d’Amelia” is one of seven Catalan folk songs adapted for guitar by Spanish composer/arranger Miguel Llobet.

Play the Catalan Folk Song "El Testament d'Amelia"

“El Testament d’Amelia” is one of seven Catalan folk songs adapted for guitar by Spanish composer/arranger Miguel Llobet.

Play Scratch Rhythms on the Backbeat

Play Scratch Rhythms on the Backbeat

Learn how to add a percussive pop to your rhythm patterns.

Play Scratch Rhythms on the Backbeat

Learn how to add a percussive pop to your rhythm patterns.

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Here at Acoustic Guitar we've been busy with not only writing a magazine you love to read and follow, but pulling together some pro advice and lessons to help you continue your...

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Here at Acoustic Guitar we've been busy with not only writing a magazine you love to read and follow, but pulling together some pro advice and lessons to help you continue your...

Learn How to Play Natural Harmonics

Learn How to Play Natural Harmonics

Alex de Grassi teaches you how to find and play natural harmonics.

Learn How to Play Natural Harmonics

Alex de Grassi teaches you how to find and play natural harmonics.

Learn to Play the Blues Classic "Careless Love"

Learn to Play the Blues Classic "Careless Love"

Today’s excerpt from Arranging Folk and Blues Songs invites you to play a bluesy ballad interpretation of “Careless Love” – a classic tune from the early-20th-century New Orleans jazz songbook.

Learn to Play the Blues Classic "Careless Love"

Today’s excerpt from Arranging Folk and Blues Songs invites you to play a bluesy ballad interpretation of “Careless Love” – a classic tune from the early-20th-century New Orleans jazz songbook.