Apps & Tech Follow The Guitar Journal on Spotify 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
Learn Guitar 30 Great Songs for Absolute Beginner Guitarists (+ Video Lessons) Here are 30 songs that you can tackle as a beginner. They sequence up from very simple to slightly more complicated. They cover a variety of genres and styles. Most importantly, you'll be playing real music within a very short period of time. And I have to come
Learn Guitar The Best Way To String A Guitar, According To Tommy Emmanuel (AKA: An Unorthodox Theory on String Brands) Last week, Reverb.com put up a great video piece with Tommy Emmanuel, where he discusses how he changes strings on acoustic guitar. He also gets into a bit of a conspiracy theory about how the brand of strings you use influences your guitar. First, Tommy's advice on
Apps & Tech How To Easily, Automatically Transcribe Fingerstyle Guitar: ScoreCloud 4 Review ScoreCloud 4 was created by Sven Ahlbäck & Sven Emtell to make notating music easier. As guitarists, we know that notating guitar, particularly polyphonic "fingerstyle" guitar, can be tedious and difficult. There's a lot to pay attention to with all the different parts of the arrangement
Fingerstyle How Are Tommy Emmanuel's "Fingerstyle Milestones" Video Lessons? (Hint: They're Good...) Tommy Emmanuel is widely known as an apex acoustic guitar player - the top of the game, the cream of the crop, the man with the plan from the street with the beat. But everyone knows that. What I did not know was that he's also a phenomenal
Dobro 7 Popular Finger Picks to Clarify Your Fingerpicking Finger picks brighten and clarify your fingerpicking. Using the flesh of your fingers to individually pick the strings usually creates a muted and muddy sound. But by attaching a plectrum to the end of each picking finger, each note is picked with added power and brightness - cutting through more
