Sponsored by Elixir® Strings: Award-winning fingerstyle acoustic blues guitarist, music educator and Elixir® Strings artist Mary Flower breaks down the best fingering for a rolling boogie woogie-style bassline in this quick acoustic guitar lesson. Mary chooses Elixir Acoustic 80/20 Bronze Strings with POLYWEB® Coating for their warm tone that lasts and lasts.…

Sponsored by Taylor Guitars: The latest addition to Taylor’s American Dream Series, the AD22e is a Grand Concert acoustic-electric guitar made with solid sapele back and sides, a mahogany top, and V-Class bracing, all available at an exceptional value for everyday musicians. Blending rich projection and sustain with a warm,…

Sponsored by Kyser: Exploring delightfully unexpected conversations and surprise collaborations with artists from Kyser’s home state.  You never know what you’re going to get, but you could see that one act that turns into a living legend, or simply get inspired throughout their creative process. Join us for our inaugural…

Sponsored by Gibson: We collaborated with songwriters and players who represent a new, wildly diverse generation of genre-crushing musicians to showcase our new collection. Our artist interview series focuses on their creative ethos, artistic process, and what it means to hear more of themselves with their Generation Collection acoustic. In…

Sponsored by Elixir® Strings: Educator and Elixir® Strings artist Marc Seal teaches us common bass-style techniques like slapping and popping to coax some different sounds from your acoustic guitar. Add some plucking and percussive clicking and you are ready to put it all together in a riff that will really improve your…

Sponsored by Santa Cruz Guitar Company: Thank you for the kind words and well wishes on our 45th anniversary! We invite you to watch this short anniversary message from Richard Hoover and our talented luthiers. Here’s to the next 45! santacruzguitar.com

Sponsored by Elixir® Strings: Fingerstyle master and Elixir® Strings artist Alex de Grassi creates an arrangement of the timeless folk song “Shenandoah” in this quick acoustic lesson. Watch as he finds the melody within the chord progression, highlights the melody as a series of single-note phrases and finally combines it all to…

Sponsored by Gibson: The Gibson Generation Collection is handcrafted in Bozeman, Montana and by the highly–skilled craftspeople who make all Gibson acoustic guitars. Comprised of four models, G-00, G-45, G-Writer and the G-200, the Generation Collection is equipped with the Gibson Player Port™ on the upper bout: an original 1964…

Sponsored by Taylor Guitars: The Taylor GT was crafted to provide guitarists all the tonal sophistication and power that comes with all-solid-wood construction in a more compact frame that accommodates all types of players, styles and applications. The result is a scaled-down body that sits between the GS Mini and…

Sponsored by Elixir® Strings: Acclaimed guitarist and Elixir® Strings artist Phil Keaggy shows how he uses capos (not one but two!) and integrates looping in this short lesson video. With 60 solo album releases, Phil is a master songwriter and electric rock and acoustic fingerstyle guitar virtuoso. The capo is a main…

Sponsored by Elixir® Strings: Mary Flower, a renowned songwriter, fingerstyle guitarist, music teacher and Elixir® Strings artist, demonstrates a simple way to play a classic Howlin’ Wolf-style blues lick in A. Mary performs this quick acoustic lesson with Elixir Acoustic 80/20 Bronze Strings with POLYWEB® Coating. “When guitar strings bring comfort to…

Sponsored by Taylor Guitars: Taylor is committed to becoming stewards of the ecosystems that provide our premium tonewoods, and that effort took on a new dimension with the addition of Urban Ash to the Taylor lineup. It’s a wood with musical qualities similar to high-end mahogany, but it’s the wood’s…