TrueFire.com is a massive, online center for guitar lessons. It’s what Guitar Player magazine has called, “the planet’s largest and most comprehensive selection of online guitar lessons.” And in the area of fingerstyle guitar, they deserve particular attention for carrying a series of video lessons by the great fingerstyle player, Tommy Emmanuel. But, oh, there’s […]
Speed Techniques in Fingerstyle Guitar
Many players transition from using a traditional pick to playing fingerstyle guitar because it gives them better control, tone, and connection with the instrument. But fingerstyle can make it feel harder to play fast lead lines and melodies. So how do you keep up the speed on single-line melodies and solos? One of the advantages […]
Top 5 Best Acoustic Guitar Strings
The acoustic guitar is a very transparent instrument – what you play is what you hear. There’s not a lot of digital effects to hide behind. So choosing the best acoustic guitar strings is important. Now, you can go down the rabbit hole of obscure acoustic guitar string choices. I’ve done that, and even written […]
5 Tips to Get Your Acoustic Guitar Rig Organized
I’m attracted to the simplicity of acoustic guitar – just steel and wood, fingers and tone. There’s no hiding and, perhaps more importantly, there’s not many distractions. Just good, clean playing. And yet, even as acoustic players, we buy effects pedals and pedalboards, capos and tuners, and the list goes on. So how do we […]
Top 10 Easy Bluegrass Guitar Songs For Beginners
Bluegrass doesn’t have to be intimidating. When you listen to legends like Doc Watson and Tony Rice, it’s easy to be intimidated by the lightening fast, single note lead lines or the intricate fingerpicking. But much of the acoustic guitar’s role in bluegrass is strumming accompaniment, and often in guitar-friendly keys. Here are ten easy […]
How To Play “The Leaving of Liverpool”
In the vast pantheon of Irish Ballads, there are those you almost never hear, those that are quite common, and those that have been done so often you may never want to hear them again, or at least you’ll want to give them a rest for a while. That said , almost all of them […]
