Acoustic Guitar: Page 23

How to play a walking bassline on guitar by adding three notes before and after chords - eighth notes that feel like triplets but they are actually 8th notes.

In this video series, our expert Mike Lais will teach you how to change the strings on your guitar. He will teach you how to pick the right kind of string for the kind of guitar playing you want to do. He will also teach you how to loosen the strings, remove them from the guitar head and bridge, and put the new string on the guitar head and bridge.

Our expert, Jim Dufresne, is here to shed some light on this subject by identifying many amplification devices that you might not even consider to be as such and explain how the work and how to use them.

In this series of video music lessons you'll learn how to play Bossa Nova classical guitar. Expert Ryan Larson shows you the essential scales and chord progressions you'll need to know to play Bossa Nova songs, taking you through a piece measure by measure, and offering tips on the distinctive plucking technique used by Bossa Nova guitarists.

In this series of video music lessons you'll learn how to play Bossa Nova classical guitar. Expert Ryan Larson shows you the essential scales and chord progressions you'll need to know to play Bossa Nova songs, taking you through a piece measure by measure, and offering tips on the distinctive plucking technique used by Bossa Nova guitarists.

Folk Fingerstyle is a fantastic sounding technique and can be used in many styles, but it's birth is in folk. The bass notes alternate with the thumb to drive the patterns on and the fingers can pull out nice melodies.

In these advanced guitar lessons on video, learn how to develop your skills even further. Our expert will show you how to play guitar in the seven modes, or interval frameworks, of diatonic music (in the key of A).

In this video series of music lessons, learn how to play the Baroque lute from professional musician Foti Lycourdis. Foti will teach you about the history of the lute and what exactly is a Baroque lute.

Brad Davis explains how he uses a double G tuning on the top two strings of his guitar. Convenient for using the top strings as a bass line. Demonstrations in a bluegrass and blues style are performed.

Learning songs is the best way for a beginner guitarist to progress. Save learning scales and technical stuff for a little later. Besides this video, Justin gives some good recommendations for where to find songs and suggests staying away from the random "TAB" internet search since this won't help you learn if you're playing them wrong or not.

So you're getting pretty good now, and if you've been following Justin's progressional tutorials you know your major and minor chords and can strum. Now it's time to learn the dreaded F chord. Don't be alarmed, even though you have to hold down two strings with one finger, it is a very nice chord and leads later to playing barre chords.

An important early lesson on the guitar is the famous 12 bar blues. It is probably the most used blues chord sequence. It is usually the same progression but has some variations that are quite common. Watch as Justin shows you how to play the 12 Bar Blues chord.

Melodic Patterns are number games that can be applied to scales to open the scale up to new and creative ways to play them. They also create fingering challenges that must be overcome, increasing your technical ability. The following video shows 5 patterns applied to the Major Scale - but these patterns can be applied to any scale.

The finger gym exercise (also known as the slurs exercise) is an exercise for technical development on the guitar. It works every possible finger combination and if you do this exercise regularly you will notice that your hand strength will increase at an amazing rate, making everything easier to play

In this tutorial you will learn how to play The Beatles classic "With a Little Help from my Friends" on guitar. This is sort of a strum-along version without all the riffs so it should be easy to follow.

Watch and learn to play Hallelujah. A strum along version - not exactly off the record for either the Jeff Buckley version or the Leonard Cohen original one. But lots of fun to play :)

"Wish You Were Here" by Pink Floyd is one of the greatest guitar songs of all time and in this four part video series you're going to learn how to play it! First you go over the intro, then the chorus, then the intro solo and lastly puts it all together.

Justin breaks down how to play "Save Tonight" by Eagle Eye Cherry. It's the same riff through the whole tune so it should be easier for newer players.

This song has some interesting variations on open chords so it's a good song to learn if you're a more advanced guitarist. Watch and learn how to play "Drugs Don't Work" by The Verve.

This video is a demonstration of how to perform the Greek Tsifteteli rhythm in a buzuki ensemble. The popular folk song misirlou is used as an example.