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This jaunty little ditty has been performed by pretty much everybody and the unadulterated Scots lyrics are utterly delightful, even if you’re not quite sure what they mean. Learn this version which holds a lightness that seems to echo perfectly the devilmay- care quality of the lyrics.

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An introduction to the C-A-G-E-D system: a method of learning the fingerboard in which familiar first-position chord shapes (C, A, G, E, and D) are moved up the neck to produce new chord and scale positions. In this lesson, you'll learn how to find variations on basic fingerstyle blues patterns by moving partial chord shapes up the neck.

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Many guitarists don’t read standard music notation—it’s just not a big part of guitar culture (compared to, say, piano culture). Still, guitarists can really benefit from time spent learning to read and play from standard notation. Learning to read is not as difficult as many guitarists seem to think. It is possible to learn to read at a high level on the guitar, and it’s important to recognize that it doesn’t take hours a day to learn to read competently. In this lesson, guitarist Sean McGowan has created a 30-minute workout that can help you isolate the basic fundamentals of reading music, including the ability to recognize the pitches and rhythms of printed music and simultaneously locate and articulate the correct pitches on the fretboard.

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On the Cover: Molly Tuttle The bluegrass guitarist and singer-songwriter gives an exclusive lesson on the techniques behind her picking prowess. Special Focus: Top Gear of 2019 A look back on the year in gear, focusing on trends and technology. Features and Lessons: Classical guitarist Jason Vieaux discusses his approach to the instrument and its repertoire A historical survey of British Fingerstyle Fylde Guitars’ Roger Bucknall Michael Chapdelaine on how playing classical guitar can improve your steel-string playing How to photograph guitars Martin Keith gives a primer on nylon strings A visit with luthier Stephan Connor Songs: “Fire and Rain” by James Taylor “The Earle of Salisbury” arranged by John Renbourn “The Pearls” arranged by Dave Van Ronk “Super Moon” by Molly Tuttle “Prelude 1” from Carulli’s 24 Preludes, Opus 114 Gear Reviews: Yamaha CG-TA TransAcoustic AER MM200 and Compact 60 B&G Guitars Caletta L.R. Baggs Align Series pedals

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On the Cover: Guitar on a Budget: From finding the guitar of your dreams to low-cost items that deliver big tone gains to getting the most out of what you already have, top pros offer advice and hacks that will help you play and sound your best. Plus: AG readers chime in with hard-earned wisdom for the discerning guitar player of modest means. Songs: Blues Classic - “When the Levee Breaks” Django Reinhardt - “Limehouse Blues” I'm With Her - “Ryland (Under the Apple Tree)” Features: I'm With Her — we check in with the sweet-singing acoustic power trio featuring Aoife O'Donovan, Sarah Jarosz, and Sara Watkins; Bluegrass legend Del McCoury discusses rhythm playing and his love for old Martin guitars; inside Fred Oster ’s fantastic fretted instrument collection; instrumental insights for the fingerstyle player. Lessons: Learn to play the blues like Memphis Minnie Paul Mehling on how to make your practicing more musical Mary Flower shows you how to use open bass strings to play classic 12-bar blues Five ways to overcome mental blocks to playing guitar Gear Reviews: PRS TX20E and SE A50E Genzler ’s Acoustic Array Pro combo amp

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As Led Zeppelin’s musical architect, guitarist and songwriter Jimmy Page created sound tapestries by mixing pounding rock with soft touches of acoustic folk, blues, and Middle Eastern influences. In addition to standard tuning, he used alternate tunings like open C, DADGAD, and open G. In this lesson, learn Page’s blues-oriented work in open G.

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On the Cover: Billy Bragg and Joe Henry —the guitarists’ new album, recorded along the Texas Eagle railroad line, pays homage to old, weird America. Songs: Classic American locomotive song - “Rock Island Line” Ben Harper - “ She’s Only Happy in the Sun” Donovan - “Season of the Witch” Features: On tour, Ben Harper talks shop with his opening act Christopher Paul Stelling; Dynamic Duos: Rodrigo y Gabriela, Eric Skye and Mark Goldenberg, and Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge; guitarist T ashi Dorji ’s avant-jazz know no bounds. Tonewoods —an in-depth primer and a battle to end clear-cutting in America’s largest national forest. Lessons: 6 ways to bust out of your rut How to master chord melody 6 ways to improve fingerstyle blues How to harmonize in a Chet Atkins style Gear Reviews: ToneWoodAmp Martin 00-18 Authentic 1931 Breedlove Pursuit Concert KK Eastman AC–GA1CE and AC–GA2CE Plus: Woody Guthrie ’s Columbia River songs; reignite your love for guitar; and a sparkling guitar inspired by an outhouse.

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Memphis Minnie was a masterful guitarist who played intricate fingerstyle arrangements that accompanied her strong voice. Her early recordings, released in the 1930s, represent her finest playing. In this lesson you’ll look at her playing in open-G tuning (low to high: D G D G B D), with examples based on the songs “Crazy Cryin’ Blues,” “Don’t Want No Woman,” and “Wild About My Stuff.”

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On the Cover: Dylan Unplugged — Learn the Secrets of Bob’s Acoustic Technique. The Nobel-Prize-winning singer songwriter is also an underrated guitarist and this year marks the 40th anniversary of a seven-album stretch that found the pop star turning back to his acoustic roots on such classic albums as John Wesley Harding and Nashville Skyline. Songs: Cage the Elephant - “Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked” Martin Carthy - “Scarborough Fair” Traditional - “Wasn’t That a Mighty Storm” Features: Roundup of the year’s top gear, including reviews of more than 40 guitars, amps, and accessories. Spend 5 minutes with Sara Watkins as the former Nickel Creek fiddler discusses her newfound love of acoustic guitar. Read an interview with Dawes head honcho Taylor Goldsmith. Profile of British fingerstyle champion Martin Carthy. Lessons: 8 ways to improve your tone 5 tips for late-blooming guitarists Enhance the sound of your playing by exploring thirds 5 ways to involve your guitar in the songwriting process Gear Reviews: Martin LE Cowboy 2016 limited edition Yamaha TransAcoustic Bristol BM-15 and BD-15 iSolo wireless pickup AER Tommy Emmanuel Signature Edition Amp TC Electronics PolyTune Clip.

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“So Will We Yet” is a true anthem, expressing a deep optimism that the world has never needed more than now. There aren’t many tricky bits here. There are many ways to arpeggiate what is essentially a three-chord song, so once you’ve read through the example shown here, feel free to alter and vary it.

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Robert Johnson has long been viewed as a mysterious, tortured artist who composed dark poetic lyrics, sold his soul to the devil at the "crossroads," and was tragically murdered at a young age. Though his works bears comparison to that of his predecessors and contemporaries (guitarists and pianists alike), their music was utterly transformed in his hands, creating a world of blues like no other. And that world still contains secrets to be uncovered. Meanwhile, with this book, you hold in your hands the key to the 61 Highway and beyond. A must-have for all blues guitarists, this exciting songbook is the most complete Robert Johnson collection ever. It includes note-for-note transcriptions in standard notation and tablature for all 29 songs ever recorded by this elusive legend, plus two alternate takes. Newly discovered authentic tunings and capo placements are also part of the package. Includes: Come on in My Kitchen Cross Road Blues (Crossroads) Dead Shrimp Blues Drunken Hearted Man From Four Until Late Hell Hound on My Trail Honeymoon Blues I Believe I'll Dust My Broom I'm a Steady Rollin' Man (Steady Rollin' Man) If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day Kind Hearted Woman Blues Last Fair Deal Gone Down Little Queen of Spades Love in Vain Blues Malted Milk Me and the Devil Blues Milkcow's Calf Blues Phonograph Blues Phonograph Blues (Take 2) Preachin' Blues (Up Jumped the Devil) Ramblin' on My Mind Stones in My Passway Stop Breakin' Down Blues Sweet Home Chicago Terraplane Blues They're Red Hot 32-20 Blues Traveling Riverside Blues (Take 1) Traveling Riverside Blues Walkin' Blues When You Got a Good Friend

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Scottish Songs for Guitar is a collection of fingerstyle arrangements, in both standard and dropped-D tuning. Author, performer, and Acoustic Guitar magazine contributing editor Danny Carnahan shows you how to play 15 popular classics—from “Both Sides the Tweed,” a protest song from the 1700s, to “Rattlin’ Roarin’ Willie,” a Robert Burns tune celebrating the adventures of a freewheeling, hard-drinking fiddler. This songbook is available in two formats: Book & Video Download package: More than 50 pages with written instruction, notation and tab, complete lyrics, and historical background information, and functions as either a guitar and voice arrangement or solo guitar piece. Plus, 80 minutes of accompanying video instruction, performed by Danny Carnahan, available to download. PDF & Video Download package: Downloadable version featuring the complete written instruction (including standard notation and tablature) from the book, plus more than 80 minutes of accompanying video instruction, performed by Danny Carnahan. Includes: The Rigs of Barley Both Sides the Tweed Rattlin’ Roarin’ Willie Will Ye Go to Flanders Tae the Weavers Gin Ye Gang Cam Ye O’er Frae France Hughie the Grahame Glenlogie Tae the Beggin’ So Will We Yet The Wild Mountain Thyme Now Westlin Winds Fortune Turns the Wheel The False Lover Won Back Fair Flower of Northumberland "Of all the American musicians who have taken Scotland's music to their hearts, Danny Carnahan is the one who let it in the deepest. Simplicity, grandeur, defiance, adversity, love, loss, endurance—they're all here. You have a fine tool in your hands. Use it well." —Brian McNeill "Danny Carnahan knows what it takes to give the old Scottish songs an authentic voice on the guitar. This project will be pure delight for all guitar-playing lovers of Celtic music." —Steve Baughman "This collection features some of the finest Scottish songs. If you'd like to learn to play them, you should read this book." —Robin Williamson ABOUT THE AUTHOR Danny Carnahan has been performing and recording Celtic music for over 35 years, playing guitar, octave mandolin, fiddle, and singing. Appearing in festivals and clubs from Scotland to New Zealand, he has toured with duo partners Chris Caswell and Robin Petrie, and shared stages with Celtic artists including Johnny Moynihan, Robin Williamson, and Johnny Cunningham. His original songs are known and sung all over the Celtic world. Carnahan’s 14th and most recent CD, Deal, is the fourth release with his band Wake the Dead, the world’s first Celtic all-star Grateful Dead jam band. It follows his most recent solo CD of original songs, Sky in Your Pocket. Carnahan has penned feature articles and columns for Acoustic Guitar and Mandolin magazines. His three musical murder mysteries, A Jig Before Dying, Fortune Turns the Wheel, and With His Dying Breath, are available in trade paperback and Kindle versions. Carnahan also teaches songwriting and Celtic instrumental techniques at several California music camps. He lives in Albany, California, with his lovely wife, Saundra; irrepressible son, Teddy; and imaginary dog, Spike. For more about Danny Carnahan, visit dannycarnahan.com and wakethedead.org.

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Scottish Songs for Guitar is a collection of fingerstyle arrangements, in both standard and dropped-D tuning. Author, performer, and Acoustic Guitar magazine contributing editor Danny Carnahan shows you how to play 15 popular classics—from “Both Sides the Tweed,” a protest song from the 1700s, to “Rattlin’ Roarin’ Willie,” a Robert Burns tune celebrating the adventures of a freewheeling, hard-drinking fiddler. This songbook is available in two formats: Book & Video Download package: More than 50 pages with written instruction, notation and tab, complete lyrics, and historical background information, and functions as either a guitar and voice arrangement or solo guitar piece. Plus, 80 minutes of accompanying video instruction, performed by Danny Carnahan, available to download. PDF & Video Download package: Downloadable version featuring the complete written instruction (including standard notation and tablature) from the book, plus more than 80 minutes of accompanying video instruction, performed by Danny Carnahan. Includes: The Rigs of Barley Both Sides the Tweed Rattlin’ Roarin’ Willie Will Ye Go to Flanders Tae the Weavers Gin Ye Gang Cam Ye O’er Frae France Hughie the Grahame Glenlogie Tae the Beggin’ So Will We Yet The Wild Mountain Thyme Now Westlin Winds Fortune Turns the Wheel The False Lover Won Back Fair Flower of Northumberland "Of all the American musicians who have taken Scotland's music to their hearts, Danny Carnahan is the one who let it in the deepest. Simplicity, grandeur, defiance, adversity, love, loss, endurance—they're all here. You have a fine tool in your hands. Use it well." —Brian McNeill "Danny Carnahan knows what it takes to give the old Scottish songs an authentic voice on the guitar. This project will be pure delight for all guitar-playing lovers of Celtic music." —Steve Baughman "This collection features some of the finest Scottish songs. If you'd like to learn to play them, you should read this book." —Robin Williamson ABOUT THE AUTHOR Danny Carnahan has been performing and recording Celtic music for over 35 years, playing guitar, octave mandolin, fiddle, and singing. Appearing in festivals and clubs from Scotland to New Zealand, he has toured with duo partners Chris Caswell and Robin Petrie, and shared stages with Celtic artists including Johnny Moynihan, Robin Williamson, and Johnny Cunningham. His original songs are known and sung all over the Celtic world. Carnahan’s 14th and most recent CD, Deal, is the fourth release with his band Wake the Dead, the world’s first Celtic all-star Grateful Dead jam band. It follows his most recent solo CD of original songs, Sky in Your Pocket. Carnahan has penned feature articles and columns for Acoustic Guitar and Mandolin magazines. His three musical murder mysteries, A Jig Before Dying, Fortune Turns the Wheel, and With His Dying Breath, are available in trade paperback and Kindle versions. Carnahan also teaches songwriting and Celtic instrumental techniques at several California music camps. He lives in Albany, California, with his lovely wife, Saundra; irrepressible son, Teddy; and imaginary dog, Spike. For more about Danny Carnahan, visit dannycarnahan.com and wakethedead.org.

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The lovers in this story were likely based on real people, but by the time the ballad was first written down, in the 1820s, there were multiple variants of every name and place name in the story. In this version, the guitar plays the melody right along with the sung melody, and there’s wonderful rhythmic tension as you play with the vocal phrasing over the regularity of the guitar part.

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Learn the trademark riffs and licks behind one of the most influential recording artists of all time and one of the founders of the Nashville sound. The selections in this book provide a wealth of guitar lore guaranteed to give the aspiring guitarist lots of reasons to practice as well as a view into the various techniques used by the hands of a legendary virtuoso. Perhaps the most amazing aspect of Chet's playing is that he simply made it sound so easy. This Book & CD package features analysis and lessons for 12 Atkins hits along with a CD featuring full demos. Includes: Big Foot Blue Angel Cascade Chinatown, My Chinatown Country Gentleman Galloping on the Guitar A Little Mark Musik Mister Sandman So Soft Your Goodbye There'll Be Some Changes Made Yakety Axe You Do Something to Me

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Ever felt tempted to rake your fingers along the keys of a piano, from one end of the keyboard to the other? If so, the sound you produced was a glissando. Guitarists play glissandos—or, a sliding motion between two pitches—by sliding between notes on the fretboard. Sometimes this is done with a bottleneck slide, but in this lesson you will learn to play them with your bare, fretting-hand fingers.

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Show off your passion with this stylish spin on the classic baseball raglan. The combed cotton blend makes it super soft, comfortable, and lightweight. • ¾ Sleeve raglan shirt • Poly-cotton blend (50% polyester, 50% combed cotton) • Ribbed neckband • Made in the USA, sweatshop free

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In this arrangement of “Love Divine, All Loves Excelling,” Steve Baughman turns this traditional gospel hymn into a challenging fingerstyle-guitar piece. With its active bass line and unconventional chord shapes, this D A D G A D tuned arrangement of “Love Divine, All Loves Excelling” demands a lot from your fretting hand. It’s in fact the most challenging piece in this series of gospel tunes. The good news? Baughman’s arrangement can be streamlined, especially in the bass line, making it easier to play.

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“At Calvary” is a great old gospel hymn and, while played on guitar, should aim to capture the sound of a church choir singing together in that high-energy kind of way. Learn to play the song in open G and brush the strings liberally with your thumb, which will enhance the overall feeling of the piece.

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Do a search for “Pass Me Not, Oh Gentle Savior,” and you’ll find that this piece is all over the map in terms of the many different ways in which it’s been arranged. Learn to play it here in a time-honored country-blues approach. Not only does the simple melody of “Pass Me Not” work out nicely in this setting, the arrangement is also really good training for learning to play an alternating-thumb pattern and a sweet melody simultaneously.

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Want to play acoustic guitar like contemporary bluesman Alvin Youngblood Hart? Here’s a look inside his guitar style, including tips on playing slide, and his use of open-D and open-G tunings.

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On the Cover: Roots, Riffs & Resonators —A special section on up-and-coming resonator players, a resonator guitar company, and a basics lesson on bottleneck slide guitar techniques. Songs: Peter Frampton - “Show Me the Way” The Eagles - “Tequila Sunrise” Nathan Bell - “Names” Features: Interviews with Peter Frampton, Duke Robillard, Richard Osborn, the Stray Birds, Birds of Chicago, and M. Ward; Joan Baez at 70; a sad goodbye to Jefferson Airplane founder Paul Kantner; Folk Alliance International awards Ramblin’ Jack Elliott and Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry. Lessons: Tips on bass fingerpicking Playing in waltz time Add percussive textures to your guitar Gear Reviews: Two Taylor 12-string guitars Solomon Phidelity archtop Krivo ’s Django Bucker and Nuevo Single Coil pickups

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On the Cover: The Learning Issue special focus section offers 7 tips for finding the best guitar instructor for adult needs; getting the most out of Skype lessons; and how to self-evaluate your technique and fix flaws you find. Songs: Alynda Lee Segarra - "The Body Electric" Elizabeth Cotton - "Freight Train" Duck Baker - "Odd Fellows March" Scott Joplin - "The Entertainer" Features: A profile of Alynda Lee Segarra of Hurray for the Riff Raff; inside the gutbucket blues of Reverend Peyton; and guitarist Nathan Bell ’s “Playing With and Through Pain,” complete with advice on prevention and recovery. Lessons: Essential building blocks for better solos How to find your own fingerstyle voice Learn to play the blues like Elizabeth Cotton Gear Reviews: Guild M-40E Taylor Academy 10e and 12e Trance Amulet M Pickup Boss Acoustic Singer Pro amp Fender Acoustic 200 amp Elliott Elite and Integrity capos Plus: Danny Kortchmar ’s acoustic side; catching up with folk-rocker Dan Bern; is it time for a re-fret?

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There are several things one can do to get a good slide sound: Set up your guitar with heavier strings, use an open tuning, try different kinds of slides, dampen the strings,and learn to properly intonate. Getting a good sound is often as much a function of proper setup as it is technique.