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This visually stunning, well-rounded flattop is ideal for a variety of musical styles and contexts.

It’s one thing to play blazingly fast Travis picking, and quite another to sing at the same time, as Joe Robinson does.

For guitarists, ragtime can be a joyful excursion filled with fun and quirky moves. I’ve taken inspiration from Blind Blake, Blind Boy Fuller, and the Reverend Gary Davis to piece together a composition I call “Pete’s Barrelhouse Rag.”

Contrapuntal lines are not necessarily intuitive for most guitarists, but the approach is certainly worth the investment and yields dividends equivalent to sonic gold.

In this guitar lesson, learn fretboard exercises to play beautiful, dreamlike augmented arpeggios for soloing and composing in any style.

In this guitar lesson you'll learn three tips for improving your strumming: how to grip the pick, strumming open strings, then adding chords.

We talked all-time favorite stories we've written, top tips for guitar players, and a whole lot more. Check out a few highlights from the event here.

In this guitar lesson, these arrangements of two songs by Mother Maybelle Carter will help develop your technique and understanding of the flatpicking idiom.

You'll start with a familiar-sounding major-pentatonic phrase and then move it up each step of the G major scale.

Here are some tips on understanding the power of modes and pentatonic scales (major and minor), and how to fit them into your own playing on acoustic guitar.