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From the November/December 2020 issue of Acoustic Guitar | By Marcy Marxer I just love to play swing guitar leads. Why do I find such irresistible joy in this style, pioneered by players like Eddie Lang, Nick Lucas, and others? Maybe it’s the exciting syncopated rhythms, or the way that the guitar’s role is clearly defined but the player is…
From the May/June 2019 issue of Acoustic Guitar | BY ADAM PERLMUTTER Yasmin Williams has made a name for herself with her extended techniques, often playing the guitar flat on her lap, articulating the strings with two-handed tapping, occasionally augmented with a kalimba (thumb piano). But on “New Beginnings,” from her recent album, Unwind, Williams uses a more conventional fingerstyle…
Learn how to create short melodic patterns and repeat them on successive steps of the major scale.
From the July 2018 issue of Acoustic Guitar | BY ADAM PERLMUTTER Video by Mark Althans One day last March, I was on my morning drive, listening to the San Francisco Bay Area jazz station KCSM, when a gorgeous solo acoustic-guitar piece, striking in its simplicity, came on the radio. I pulled off to the side of the road to have a…
From the July/August 2019 issue of Acoustic Guitar | BY ADAM PERLMUTTER Between 1936 and ’37, bluesman Robert Johnson recorded 29 songs, unknowingly casting the mold for blues and rock guitar for decades to come. A good case in point is Johnson’s “I Believe I’ll Dust My Broom” (1936), with its boogie and insistent triplet moves, which guitarist Elmore James…