Guitarist and W.C. Handy scholar Jon Shain shares strategies for adapting ragtime pieces for fingerstyle guitar using the 1917 Handy song “Beale Street Blues” as an example.
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Archive for February, 2023
Learn to use three-note, three-string triads — you probably already know a lot of these chords, and in this lesson, you’ll find ways to repurpose them.
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To mark the 130th birthday of Andrés Segovia, we spoke with three contemporary guitarists who each studied with the maestro: Lily Afshar, Liona Boyd, and Michael Chapdelaine.
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Learn how to use different kinds of bass lines to add variety to boom-chuck accompaniment in the keys of E and A major.
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Sponsored by Taylor Guitars: With all-solid woods and tone-enhancing bracing, Taylor’s U.S.-made American Dream Series delivers rich, bold sound in a package that looks great wherever you take it. Now, the family grows with three new models featuring solid walnut backs and sides, Sitka spruce tops, and striking sunburst finishes. Between three different body shapes, […]
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“Fortune Turns the Wheel” is simple, and the sung melody needs little in the way of instrumental propulsion, so the guitar setting is spare in this arrangement.
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South Korea–born classical guitar virtuoso Bokyung Byun (aka “Bo”) is riding a wave of musical achievements.
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Sponsored by Santa Cruz Guitar Company: For over 45 years, Santa Cruz Guitar Company has been making the world a better place by providing the musical tools for peace. I realized my vision of bringing the traditions of the ancient violin masters to the modern steel-string guitar, but not all by myself. Approaching the half-century […]
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Reverend Gary Davis is widely celebrated as a genius of blues fingerpicking. In this guitar lesson, Ernie Hawkins, who studied with him, teaches his style.
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Learn to play Madison Cunningham’s “Life According to Raechel,” a hushed, sparse, gorgeously melodic song that she wrote in honor of her grandmother.
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