Today I'd like to share with you a very useful chord shape for playing gypsy jazz. Below is an image of one way of playing a 'minor six' chord shape. Using 'minor six' chords in place of minor triads is very common in gypsy jazz playing. …
5 Tips to Get Your Acoustic Guitar Rig Organized
I’m attracted to the simplicity of acoustic guitar - just steel and wood, fingers and tone. There’s no hiding and, perhaps more importantly, there’s not many distractions. Just good, clean playing. And yet, even as acoustic players, we buy effects …
Continue Reading about 5 Tips to Get Your Acoustic Guitar Rig Organized
Top 10 Easy Bluegrass Guitar Songs For Beginners
Bluegrass doesn't have to be intimidating. When you listen to legends like Doc Watson and Tony Rice, it's easy to be intimidated by the lightening fast, single note lead lines or the intricate fingerpicking. But much of the acoustic guitar's role in …
Continue Reading about Top 10 Easy Bluegrass Guitar Songs For Beginners
How To Play “The Leaving of Liverpool”
In the vast pantheon of Irish Ballads, there are those you almost never hear, those that are quite common, and those that have been done so often you may never want to hear them again, or at least you'll want to give them a rest for a while. That …
Continue Reading about How To Play “The Leaving of Liverpool”
Gypsy Jazz Picking (Rest-Stroke Picking)
Today I'd like to chat about the style of picking used in gypsy jazz guitar, otherwise known as 'rest stroke' picking.This picking technique is what allows gypsy jazz guitarists to produce such a strong sound on their instrument, and once …
Continue Reading about Gypsy Jazz Picking (Rest-Stroke Picking)
5 Acoustic Guitar Fixes Using Super Glue
There are three or four different types of glue on your acoustic guitar right now, and one of them is super glue. While your acoustic guitar is a piece of woodworking mastery, and luthiers used refined techniques (and a host of tools!) to shape, …
Continue Reading about 5 Acoustic Guitar Fixes Using Super Glue
How To Play Guitar Like Woody Mann
Woody Mann is a masterful American blues guitarist. He was born in New York and learned his early acoustic guitar chops under blues guitarist Reverend Gary Davis. From there, he has become a tour de force in acoustic guitar music, incorporating jazz, …
A Very Useful Gypsy Jazz Arpeggio (with TAB, picking, & fingering)
Today I'd like to share with you a very useful shape. One of the most versatile arpeggios you can learn as a gypsy jazz guitarist is shown below. The great thing about this shape is that you can use it to improvise over three …
Continue Reading about A Very Useful Gypsy Jazz Arpeggio (with TAB, picking, & fingering)
10 Vocal Tips Just for Guitarists
Can I tell you a secret? As a vocal coach, some of my favorite students are guitarists. That’s because without learning to play guitar, I never would have become the singing teacher I am today. I actually didn’t even care about my voice …
Top 5 Delay Pedals for Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar
Acoustic fingerstyle guitar players use delay pedals to expand their sound and create unique sonic atmospheres. As with all guitar effects for acoustic guitar, a little goes a long way. But that little bit can be magical. Just to set the stage, …
Continue Reading about Top 5 Delay Pedals for Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar
Taylor Guitars Launches New Round-shoulder Dreadnought: The Grand Pacific
Taylor® Guitars recently introduced a brand-new body shape — The Grand Pacific. The new acoustic guitar is developed by master guitar designer Andy Powers and utilizes Taylor's new sonic engine, V-Class bracing. New Shape, New Sound The new …
Continue Reading about Taylor Guitars Launches New Round-shoulder Dreadnought: The Grand Pacific
How To Play Acoustic Guitar Like Eric Clapton
Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE (born 30 March 1945), is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist and separately as a member of the Yardbirds …
Continue Reading about How To Play Acoustic Guitar Like Eric Clapton
An Introduction to Traditional Irish Guitar
GUEST POST - I thought I might offer a few words in this post about a guitar genre that rarely gets the spotlight outside of its own community of players, namely that of guitar accompaniment in traditional Irish music. Now when I say …
Continue Reading about An Introduction to Traditional Irish Guitar
One Click Tuner – A Minimalist Guitar Tuner App With Frequency Display
The One Click Tuner comes from the unlikely source of www.seqstat.com (short for 'Sequential Statistics'), a machine learning and algorithm-oriented site run by PhD researcher Josh Day. Not exactly your typical guitar tuner background... One …
Continue Reading about One Click Tuner – A Minimalist Guitar Tuner App With Frequency Display
