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On the Cover: Richard Thompson. Guitarist Richard Thompson’s eclectic approach to the acoustic guitar draws from the popular and traditional music of his native Britain, American country and rock, the classical music of Europe and India, and beyond. In this feature lesson, Mac Randall examines the fresh musical ideas of this “old folkie.” Special Focus: Modern Learning Tools and Apps for Guitar. Online courses and new apps are making it easier than ever to learn guitar on your own terms. We survey the online lesson landscape. Songs: Richard Thompson – “She Twists the Knife Again” Robert Johnson – “I Believe I’ll Dust My Broom” Patriotic classic – “America the Beautiful” Mark Goldenberg – “Ask the Fist” Doc Watson – “Black Mountain Rag” Campfire classic – “This Little Light of Mine” Joe Robinson – “Let the Guitar Do the Talkin’” Features: Slide Masters: Six guitarists who use bottleneck slide in fresh and unexpected ways; Alex de Grassi & Andrew York discuss their Mendocino Guitar Workshop, which caters to both steel-string and classical players; Woodshed: Jazz guitarist Mimi Fox teaches her stirring arrangement of “America the Beautiful;” Makers & Shakers: Tony Klassen on recreating vintage magic at New Era Guitars. Lessons: Weekly Workout: How to play slide guitar in a range of styles Here’s How: A jazzy introduction to reading lead sheets The Basics: Fred Sokolow shows how to make the pentatonic scale work in almost any situation Gear Reviews: Iris Guitar Company OG Standard Martin OM-28 Modern Deluxe Palmer Acoustic Pocket Amp MagSlide Magnesium Slide

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If you love bluegrass and folk music, you'll enjoy using this PDF & Audio Download collection to learn flatpicking backup styles, melodies, and leads from some of the finest teachers around. It offers 12 outstanding lessons from the master teachers at Acoustic Guitar magazine. Scott Nygaard will teach you how to flatpick fiddle tunes and show you how to transform well-worn licks into dazzling variations. Dix Bruce will give you expert advice on how to transcribe bluegrass solos from favorite artists. And Happy Traum will inspire you to improvise on a traditional bluegrass sound to add power and drive to your solos. The book includes 16 complete songs to play. Includes: BACKUP STYLES Strum and Bass Note Patterns. By Larry Sandberg. Bluegrass Rhythm Guitar. By Scott Nygaard. The Lester Flatt G Run. By Happy Traum. Rhythm Essentials. By John McGann. Fiddle Contest Accompaniment. By Jim Wood. Simple Irish Backup. By Paul Kotapish. PLAYING MELODIES AND LEADS Flatpicking Fiddle Tunes. By Scott Nygaard. Bluesy Bluegrass. By Steve Pottier. Cross-Picking. By Scott Nygaard. Variations on a Theme. By Scott Nygaard. Transcribing Solos. By Dix Bruce. Celtic Flatpicking. By Dylan Schorer. SONGS Jesse James Will the Circle Be Unbroken Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms Mama Don't 'Low Sally Goodin Kentucky Waltz The Star of Munster Morrison's Jig Soldier's Joy Sandy River Belle Bury Me Beneath the Willow Carroll County Blues Foggy Mountain Special Humphrey's Hornpipe Pretty Peggy Banish Misfortune "The 12 chapters in this book are more than just a chest of treasures for those with ambitions to flatpick. It presents basic accompaniment and solo techniques as well as teaching 16 complete songs in different styles." — Akustik Gitarre

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The basic, three-chord blues shuffle is rhythmic bread and butter. The beauty of the blues is that, on the surface, it’s easy to understand even by newcomers to guitar. But the basic shuffle in this lesson can be played in myriad ways: from a steady eighth-note pattern to a jazzy walking bass line with syncopated chords. In this lesson, you will take on these rhythmic styles—the basic tools you’ll need whether playing solo or with a band—all in the guitar-friendly key of E major.

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Managing the sound of ringing strings can be a tricky business. On the one hand, ringing strings are an essential part of an acoustic guitar’s sound. But too much sustain can turn an otherwise well-composed piece of music into a sonic mess. Dan Apczynski provides tips on avoiding this problem with various simple string-muting techniques.

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If you can strum or fingerpick chords and pick individual notes, you may be looking for the next step: some tool that can help you create cool-sounding riffs, complementary parts, and even spectacular solos. Better yet, what if this new technique was an impressive eight-letter Italian word? By the time you finish this lesson, you’ll not only know how to play an arpeggio, a chord broken up into individual notes; you’ll also know all sorts of ways to use them in your playing.

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A jam track gives you an instant band to practice with. In this lesson, you’ll learn about different jam-track options (self-recorded, online, store-bought), where to find them, and how to get the most from playing with a prerecorded band.

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'Now Westlin Winds' is a love song to the birds of the Scottish countryside, sung by a poet who saw, too, how man’s casual violence intrudes on the pastoral scene. This is a song to take at a very leisurely pace. Enjoy every nuance.

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Fiddle tunes are not only great fun to play, as evidenced by their popularity at festival jam sessions worldwide, they are also great exercises in basic alternating picking, a technique that must be mastered to play fluid leads in many styles of music. The simple structure and steady stream of eighth notes in fiddle tunes allows you to concentrate on developing a smooth, even picking motion that will soon become second nature.

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Practice logs tell no lies, and this black-and-white assessment of your work can be enlightening. Keeping a journal-style log for yourself can show you exactly where your gaps are in your practice routine. Similarly, a realistic to-do list can be helpful in developing a practice plan.

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Few people who spend time online are immune to sniping from internet trolls. So what is a musician to do when faced with such confidence-crushing criticism? Just take the shots? Ignore it? Toughen up? Quit? Patrick Sullivan spoke to several musicians to get some tips on dealing with upsetting social media slams.

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Get a year's worth of lessons, gear reviews, and artist profiles plus music notation and TAB for all of these great songs: A Daughter in Denver Tom Paxton A Natural Man Jack Williams American Tune Paul Simon Blackberry Blossom Scott Fore Blackwaterside Bert Jansch Classical Gas Mason Williams Cold Black Hammer Joe Ely Colours Donovan Corcovado Antonio Carlos Jobim Danny Boy Traditional arr. by Steve Baughman El Cascabel Lorenzo Barcelata Freight Train Elizabeth Cotten Hell Hound on My Trail Robert Johnson Hitchhiker Neil Young Home: Part 2 Jamie Stillway Jeremy Pearl Jam Jitters Mary Flower Jolene Dolly Parton Keep the River on Your Right Tom Heyman LA Gabriel Kahane Lion's Share Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge Love Divine All Loves Excelling Mama's Got the Blues Bessie Smith Maple Leaf Rag Scott Joplin Master Hunter Laura Marling Mother Nature's Son The Beatles Odd Fellows March Duck Baker River unto Sea Buck Curran Shake Sugaree David Bromberg Sippur John Zorn arr. By Tim Sparks The Backpacker Tim Farrell The Body Electric Hurray for the Riff Raff The Entertainer Scott Joplin The Hacker's Joy The Creek Rocks Thinking Out Loud Ed Sheeran Trouble in Mind Big Bill Broonzy Turner Station Eric Bibb Walls of Time Peter Rowan Wild Indifference Joan Shelley Wildwood Flower Molly Tuttle William Tell Overture Glen Campbell Windmills Stephane Wrembel Worried Man Blues Molly Tuttle Y'all Means All John McCutcheon Your Guitar Richard Shindell All issues included in this archive are available to download instantly.

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Every musician has a go-to kit stock full of goodies that make performing, practicing, and learning much easier. And, an essential for that kit should be the Chord Wheel. A wonderful device that helps you transpose chord progressions in any key, learn to compose your own music, and understand key structure, the Chord Wheel is a lightweight and easy to use tool. Tuck into your music binder or throw into the tote bag with your other crucial gear! Features a turning wheel for finding the right chord and a booklet of information about using your new tool!

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Delve into a series of graduated exercises to master tricky artificial harmonics. Learn to play tonal colors on your acoustic guitar that channel the sound of a harp, much like Chet Atkins did in his famous version of “Over the Rainbow,” or the way Lenny Breau—a master of artificial harmonics—put his imprint on stan­dards like “Autumn Leaves.”

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When you play this arrangement of “What a Friend We Have in Jesus”—or really any alternating-thumb piece—it is highly recommend to palm-mute the bass notes. This creates a nice textural contrast while allowing the melody to stand out. Make sure to play this song nice and strong and clean throughout the arrangement.

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Get a year's worth of lessons, gear reviews, and artist profiles plus music notation and TAB for all of these great songs: 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover Paul Simon Amazing Grace Traditional America the Beautiful Mimi Fox Ask the Fist Mark Goldenberg Black Mountain Rag Doc Watson Both Sides Now Joni Mitchell Copeland's Fancy Steve James Fiddler's Dram/Whiskey Before Breakfast Traditional Golden Embers Mandolin Orange Home on the Range Traditional I Believe I'll Dust My Broom Robert Johnson/Elmore James If I Had a Rocket Launcher Bruce Cockburn If I Needed Someone The Beatles Landslide Fleetwood Mac Let the Guitar Do the Talkin' Joe Robinson New Beginnings Yasmin Williams Oh Come, All Ye Faithful Traditional Pink Moon Nick Drake Quite Early Morning Pete Seeger Radio Hula Led Kaapana Requiem for John Fahey Gwenifer Raymond She Twists the Knife Again Richard Thompson Solitudes Kinloch Nelson Sometime Next Summer David Grier Song for Liam Buck Curran Spanish Rag Diego Garcia Streets of Laredo Traditional Sultans of Swing Dire Straits The Wreck of the Old 97 Traditional arr. by Jody Stecher There But for Fortune Joan Baez This Little Light of Mine Traditional Tiger Rag Traditional Tom Dooley Traditional Waltz Mary Flower When Johnny Comes Marching Home Traditional arr. By Ron Jackson You Made Me Love You Oscar Aleman All issues included in this archive are available to download instantly.

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Get a year's worth of lessons, gear reviews, and artist profiles plus music notation and TAB for all of these great songs: As Tears Go By The Rolling Stones Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You Led Zeppelin Baby, Please Don't Go Big Bill Broonzy Bells of Unity Scott Law Bless the Telephone Kelis Blue Moon Beck Bottom of the Punchbowl Celtic Traditional Bourrée in E Minor J.S. Bach Bury Me Beneath the Willow Traditional Chelsea Morning Joni Mitchell Cluck Old Hen Traditional Dublin Blues Guy Clark Every Morning Keb' Mo' Frankie and Albert (Johnny) Traditional arr. by Mississippi John Hurt Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad Traditional arr. by Jerry Garcia Good King Wenceslas Pete Seeger Hard Times Stephen Foster Home Again Michael Kiwanuka If I Fell The Beatles Last Goodbye Jeff Buckley Loser Beck Luka Suzanne Vega Nature's Way Spirit Nobody Knows You When You're Down & Out Eric Clapton Omie Wise Traditional arr. by Doc Watson Only Wanna Be with You Hootie and the Blowfish Paranoid Android Radiohead Power and the Glory Phil Ochs Ruby, Are You Mad At Your Man? Carolina Chocolate Drops Shine On, Harvest Moon Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry) R.E.M. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young T-Bone Shuffle T-Bone Walker Tell Me Why Neil Young That's All Right Elvis Presley The Water Is Wide Traditional The Yellow Rose of Texas Traditional Wayfaring Stranger Traditional arr. by Johnny Cash Which Side Are You On? Ani Difranco Whiskey Before Breakfast Norman Blake Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore John Prine All issues included in this archive are available to download instantly.

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On the Cover: Learn how Jackson Browne is mentoring a new generation of Los Angeles artists and read about 12 must-visit performance spaces in the City of Lights. Songs: Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge - "Lion's Share" Eric Bibb - "Turner Station" Gabriel Kahane - "LA" Features: Read about the latest recording project from British fingerstylist Michael Chapman and get advice on decoding the music of legendary American-primitive guitarist Robbie Basho. Lessons: Playing the blues like Alvin Youngblood Hart Tips on developing chord fluency How to use a partial capo to expand your tonal palette Gear Reviews: Taylor 814ce DLX Spector Timbre acoustic bass guitar Luna ’s new Art Recorder

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Get a year's worth of lessons, gear reviews, and artist profiles plus music notation and TAB for all of these great songs: Ain't No Rest for the Wicked Cage the Elephant Anji Davey Graham Anne's Song Will Ackerman Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie Traditional Call me the Breeze JJ Cale Close to the Ground Glenn Jones Crazy Blues Mamie Smith and Her Jazz Hounds Do Re Mi Woody Guthrie Don't Know Why Norah Jones Don't Let the Devil Ride Buddy & Judy Miller Gentle on My Mind Glen Campbell God's Gonna Ease My Troublin' Mind Clarence Ashley Hang Me, Oh Hang Me Dave Van Ronk Here There and Everywhere The Beatles Honky Tonk Man Dwight Yoakam I Saw the Light Todd Rundgren Jambalaya Hank Williams John the Revelator Blind Willie Johnson My Bluebird Mary Flower Names Nathan Bell O the Wind and Rain Peggy Seeger Ol' 55 Tom Waits Pea Vine Blues Charley Patton Pride & Joy Stevie Ray Vaughan Rider in the Rain Randy Newman Rock Island Line Traditional Ruby's Eyes Tommy Emmanuel Scarborough Fair Traditional arr. by Martin Carthy Season of the Witch Donovan She's Only Happy in the Sun Ben Harper Show Me the Way Peter Frampton Sweet Virginia The Rolling Stones Swing Gitan Django Reinhardt Tequila Sunrise The Eagles Ulupalakua Sunset Jim "Kimo" West Warning Green Day Wasn't That a Mighty Storm Traditional Will the Circle Be Unbroken The Carter Family You Gotta Move Mississippi Fred McDowell All issues included in this archive are available to download instantly.

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With so many notes on your guitar’s fretboard, it can be hard to know which ones to use to craft a solo. But here’s a little secret: artists like Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, and Duane Allman often used only five notes to create some of the greatest solos of all time, employing the magic of the minor-pen­tatonic scale and its close relative, the major-pentatonic scale. Guitarist Andrew DuBrock offers some sound advice on making your solos livelier and more dynamic.

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'The False Lover Won Back' is another star-crossed relationship, this time sporting a surprise happy ending. Melodically, there are two verse forms: the short and the long. The short verse simply omits bar 9 through the 6/4 bar, jumping right to the last three bars, and finishing the same as the long verse.

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Most guitarists, regardless of ability or genre, are familiar with playing pentatonic scales. Countless songs, melodies, solos, and classic riffs are based on the sound and structure of the pentatonic scale, which is literally any scale with five notes. However, most musicians refer to the major-pentatonic scale, which is built from scale degrees 1-2-3-5-6; or, a major scale without the fourth and seventh degrees. The minor-pentatonic scale (1-b3-4-5-b7) is an inversion of the major pentatonic (from the fifth note, or scale degree 6), and is often the first scale that guitarists learn on the fretboard.

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Funk guitar might be most commonly associated with the scratchy electric rhythms of a player like Jimmy Nolen, in support of James Brown, the Godfather of Soul. But the acoustic guitar lends itself just as well to these cool percussive sounds, as evidenced by the guitar on the 1972 Bill Withers hit “Use Me” and more recent work by such artists as Ben Harper, India.Aire, and Ed Sheeran. So, how do you make your acoustic guitar sound raw and funky?

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On the Cover: Reverend Gary Davis Blues guitarist and educator Ernie Hawkins gives a comprehensive overview of the stylings of Reverend Gary Davis Features, Lessons & Departments The Blues Revival: Rory Block, Stefan Grossman, Steve James, and Happy Traum on learning from the great guitarists during the 1960s blues revival Personal Inlays: From no-frills decorations to more intricate designs, learn the process behind customized fretboard artwork Guitar Talk: Railroad Earth guitarist-vocalist-songwriter Todd Sheaffer Weekly Workout: Learn three ways to play a 12-bar blues in the key of C major Makers & Shakers: Waterloo Guitars’ Audrey Bartlett Songs “Cocaine Blues” by Rev. Gary Davis “The Girl from Ipanema” ­– Charlie Byrd’s take on the Jobim classic “Guitar Peace” – a new instrumental from Billy Strings “Red River Valley” – learn a folk and cowboy standard “Dancing with Shadows” – a new tune from Peppino D’Agostino Gear Reviews Preston Thompson 000-14SBA Lowden WL-35J Schertler Roy amplifier Shubb Capo Royale SonoTone Symphonic strings And More!

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The first part of “Spanish Fandango,” a 19th-century American guitar classic, was included in the first Roots and Blues Fingerstyle Guitar book, where it was contrasted with a slide guitar version adapted from the playing of West Virginia songster Frank Hutchison. This time the original, composed by Henry Worrall, is paired with an even more variant canticle from a man who was literally a giant in old- time country music—John Dilleshaw, the Georgia string band leader who recorded this complex hillbilly symphony, was known as Seven Foot Dilly