In this lesson, we are exploring the guitar style of one of the most celebrated ... became more sophisticated than the typical open chord picking of the protest singer. This piece examines ...

Ever since the '60s, Joan Baez has delivered a message with her music, but she was never going to be a two-chord folkie with ...

Music tab for Guitar Players Ex. 2 demonstrates a nifty use of Travis picking to scamper up and down the neck. Notice there’s an open G note between each chord form, allowing for more seamless ...

Saturday evening’s Joe Bonamassa concert started off with a trifecta of frustration. First, with multiple events going on at ...

Artificial intelligence is reshaping the music landscape, turning listeners into creators and sparking new debates over ...

In the cultural wasteland of the Reagan era, they showed that a band could break through to mass appeal without being cheesy, ...

You might think it just feels ‘right’ when you hit upon a chord sequence, or melody that works ... but in a composition-context it dictates the groove and strumming pattern you might play your guitar, ...

This subgenre of blues differs from the delta style, being characterized by fingerpicking with an alternating thumb bass string rhythmic pattern able ... of songs, guitar tunings (James used a D minor ...

In this 50-year retrospective, Birdie Reeds dives into Nick Drake’s life at Cambridge, his enduring myth, and the music that ...