Guitarists are always searching for new ways to express their musical ideas on the instrument. Be it a new chord voicing, scale, arpeggio, lick or riff, their attention is most often focused on the ...

Guitar skills: Fingerstyle is one of the most brilliantly useful techniques to master. You can use it in all manner of genres and styles, from acoustic folk and country to Jeff Beck and Mark ...

Even if you’re a total beginner, the course Beginner Guitar Fingerpicking will break down how to play the guitar in a simple step-by-step way. This introduction to fingerpicking will teach you the ...

Hybrid picking is an electric and acoustic guitar technique that involves a mixture of plectrum ‘flatpicking’ and fingerstyle technique. The style is most synonymous with players such as Chet Atkins, ...

Whatever style of acoustic guitar you most want to play, it’s worth dipping a toe into as many genres as you can. Most genres have a handful of defining signature sounds. By getting those signatures ...

Allen Van Wert is a guitar teacher, fingerpicking metal virtuoso, and now an A.I. developer who is promising his new program, The Ultimate Picking Program, can identify weaknesses in performance and ...

In this lesson, we’ll be looking at an unaccompanied acoustic piece. The tempo marked is approximate as this was played ‘freehand’ without a metronome. Flatpicking is a bit of a catch-all term since ...

If you’ve already seen my first video on applying guitar-style fingerpicking to the piano, this is your next step forward. In this lesson, we go deeper into the technique and explore how to use it ...