What are fundamental acoustic guitar techniques? Basic strumming, flatpicking, and fingerpicking are all techniques that provide a solid foundation on the instrument. Legato moves like hammer-ons, pull-offs, and slides also fall under the umbrella of fundamental technique. The lessons here are perfect for beginning and intermediate guitar players.
Even if you usually stick to rhythm playing, all you need to craft cool, musical solos are some straightforward ingredients that are right at your fingertips.
Julian Lage shows how to turn a single melodic line into a layered, expressive statement—with just one subtle move.
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In this Travis picking lesson, you’ll focus on the groove, not the pattern.
When playing accompaniment, you have melody notes literally at your fingertips in and around the chord shapes—you just need to find those notes and spotlight them.
We’ll start off with a series of examples that use a bass run to connect two chords, and then we’ll try out bass runs in a few classic progressions.
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In this lesson we’ll work with some "blue" notes that you can use to add bluesy colors to open chord shapes.
Sus and add chord voicings are used all the time to add variety to rhythm patterns and create riffs.
This basic lesson focuses on using hammer-ons and pull-offs with open chords—creating classic sounds heard throughout roots, country, and rock guitar styles.
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Practicing rhythmic fundamentals can show immediate results and also gives you a structure to internalize new rhythmic patterns.
When played clearly, harmonics sound bell-like and chimey, and they sustain to add a harp-like effect to your sound.
In this final installment of our three-part lesson on developing sight-reading skills, we'll move up the neck and try out some new rhythms and harmonies
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Make your riffs and solos more musical, memorable, and fun to play! This course is free for you thanks to sponsorship from Elixir® Strings.
Though commonly associated with classical guitar, tremolo technique can be used on steel-string acoustic or even electric guitar to give the impression of a sustained voice.
Being able to visualize chords all over the neck as they happen is a great foundation for building melodic lines.
Learning to sing and play at once can seem daunting, but the simple steps outlined in this lesson can make the process much more enjoyable.
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In this lesson you’ll learn a handful of essential barre chord shapes and use them to play the swing favorite “After You’ve Gone.”
Make your I-IV-V boom-chuck accompaniments in D sound more interesting by adding some variety to your bass lines.
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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The capo is a small but powerful tool for guitarists that raises the notes of the open strings but retains the individual relationships between strings. Here's how to use one.
In this guitar lesson we will break down the classic boom-chuck pattern heard throughout American roots music and begin to use it on songs.
Here are some patterns you can practice on their own and then use in traditional songs
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Improve your acoustic guitar tone with these tips and techniques for fretting-hand, flatpicking, and fingerstyle playing for both your right and left hands.
Learn to get comfortable holding a pick, then try some common strums of increasing complexity
In this lesson you'll learn how to sing and play a whole song with any set of strum patterns you like.
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In this guitar lesson you will focus on tightening up your timing on rhythm guitar using a variety of different strumming rhythms.
