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The Guitar Journal is curating playlists on Spotify!

Follow us to keep up on music we're listening to. It'll include great fingerstyle guitar music, of course. But there's so much more out there to inspire us and stretch us as guitar players - from Shostakovich to Radiohead.

Here are a few playlists to get you started. You can follow them directly by clicking the little Spotify button in the top right and hitting the heart on the playlist. Or you can just play them here in the blog post.

To follow 'theguitarjournal', click through to our profile and hit the "heart" icon:


And if you want to follow some specific playlists, here's a few to get you started. (To follow, click the three-curve-spotify thing in the top right, and then hit the 'heart' on the playlist.)

The 10 Best Easy Fingerpicking Songs for Beginners (Expanded)

Compiled from our popular post of the same name, this playlist covers a variety of eras and genres.

The Best of Tommy Emmanuel

A compilation of favorites from one of our favorite guitar players. : )

30 Great Songs for Absolute Beginners Guitarists (+ Video Lessons)

Again, a genre-breaking, era-defying playlist pulled from a post of the same name. These are all songs you can learn through Fender's new PLAY online video lesson platform.

The Great Dobro Playlist

The Dobro is an amazing instruments, made great by folks like Rob Ickes and Andy Hall. Check out some tunes to make you wish you grew up just Southeast of the Midwest.

The Ultimate Top 10 Acoustic Guitar Songs

Pulled from our popular article by the same title, this playlist actually has about 15 songs. Once the original article got a lot of comments, we updated it (but couldn't change the title for internet-blog-technical reasons!). So enjoy : )

Got a playlist idea you'd like to see created? Let us know in the comments below!