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Create four-note patterns by removing the second step of a minor pentatonic scale.

In this guitar lesson, you’ll explore some essential facets of Western swing rhythm and lead guitar. 

In this guitar lesson you will focus on tightening up your timing on rhythm guitar using a variety of different strumming patferns.

In this Weekly Workout, you’ll learn different ways to map out and play thirds all over the fretboard of your acoustic guitar.

The whole-tone, natural minor, harmonic minor, and melodic minor scales on acoustic guitar can bring intriguing mystery and bittersweet emotion to your music.

Learn to use three-note, three-string triads — you probably already know a lot of these chords, and in this lesson, you’ll find ways to repurpose them.

By Ron Jackson When I started playing acoustic guitar at age 11, my fret-hand fingers jumped off the fingerboard like grasshoppers, as speed and clarity evaded me. Then, when I was in high school, I saw the acoustic-guitar trio of Paco de Lucía, Al Di Meola, and John McLaughlin, and my mind was blown by…

From the January/February 2021 issue of Acoustic Guitar | By Ron Jackson If you’ve spent much time listening to jazz guitar virtuosos like George Benson and Tal Farlow, shredders like Yngwie Malmsteen and Tony MacAlpine, or fusion players like Frank Gambale, then you’ve no doubt heard plenty of sweep picking. This efficient technique involves using a plectrum to play a…

Learn a few ways to understand the circle of fifths and how to play progressions with changing tonalities.

The capo is a small but powerful tool for guitarists that raises the notes of the open strings but retains the individual relationships between strings. Here's how to use one.