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All-Purpose Rhythm Guitar Alternate Tunings Made Easy Barre Chords Blues Lead Phrasing Building Fingerstyle Arrangements Chords 101 Creating Chord Progressions Crosspicking Pop Songs Do the Shuffle Dropped-D Tuning Easy Fingerpicking Easy Fingerpicking Embellishing Cowboy Chords Fingerstyle Basics Fingerstyle for Flatpickers First Chords Folk Song Accompaniment Guitar Rag Hammer-ons, Slides and Pull-offs Lead On! Minstrel Melodies Movable Minor Chords Movable Open-String Chords Music Notation Key Power Chords Rhythms in Three Silent Night Simple Syncopated Grooves Step Up to the Barre Strum and Bass Note Patterns (Part 1of 2) Strum and Bass Note Patterns (Part 2 of 2) What Chord Names Mean (Part 1 of 2) What Chord Names Mean (Part 2 of 2)

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All-Purpose Rhythm Guitar A few rhythm techniques useful in a wide variety of playing styles and situations Return to Top

Alternate Tunings Made Easy David Hodge explains alternate tunings from the ground up. Music to 'Handsome Molly' Return to Top

Barre Chords Acoustic Guitar magazine's founding editor unlocks the mystery of this essential and often difficult chord form, which uses one of your fingers to play several strings at once. Learn to play without pain and discover the upper reaches of the fingerboard. Return to Top

Blues Lead Phrasing Building licks from a few essential notes. Return to Top

Building Fingerstyle Arrangements Instructor Andrew DuBrock explores the development of a simple melody into a complete fingerstyle arrangement, using the traditional tune 'Greensleeves.' Return to Top

Chords 101 Everything you wanted to know about chords and strums (but were afraid to ask). Return to Top

Creating Chord Progressions Coming up with your own chord progressions with basic chords. Return to Top

Crosspicking Pop Songs Use simple crosspicking techniques to create full, driving acompaniments to pop tunes, country songs, or any other song you can think of. Return to Top

Do the Shuffle Chris Grampp gives an easy introduction to one of the most popular rhythms of all time. Return to Top

Dropped-D Tuning Join the multitude of professional guitarists exploring the world of alternate tunings. Instructor Happy Traum will introduce you to this simple and beatiful new tuning, with an arrangement of 'Worried Blues.' Return to Top

Easy Fingerpicking Unlock the flowing rhythm of Coldplay's 'Clocks' with one simple pattern. Return to Top

Easy Fingerpicking David Hamburger teaches a common fingerpicking pattern and how to use it to play 'House of the Rising Sun.' Return to Top

Embellishing Cowboy Chords Create countless easy and cool patterns by adding hammer-ons and pull-offs to first-position chords. Return to Top

Fingerstyle Basics Learn the basics of fingerstyle guitar from Chris Proctor, with his own arrangement of the traditional folk song 'Aura Lee.' Return to Top

Fingerstyle for Flatpickers An introductory fingerpicking lesson using blues progressions and walking bass lines. Return to Top

First Chords Learn seven easy chords that will give you the basic tools you need to play thousands of popular songs. Return to Top

Folk Song Accompaniment In this lesson, instructor Happy Traum takes a simple song, 'Down in the Valley,' and adds embellishments to create a nice arrangement. Return to Top

Guitar Rag Rags have been a treasured element of fingerstyle repetoire since the mid 20's. Dale Miller shows you how to get started playing these flashy, humorous and fun songs. Return to Top

Hammer-ons, Slides and Pull-offs Learn these tricks of the trade that will help you slur notes together to make your melodies flow. Instructor David Hamburger teaches you how to play these trusty embellishments. Return to Top

Lead On! Fire up a rockabilly-style lead over a classic Merle Haggard song. Return to Top

Minstrel Melodies Let master guitarist Scott Nygaard introduce you to this memorable style from the American folk tradition, with an arrangement of 'Golden Slippers.' Return to Top

Movable Minor Chords Happy Traum shows you how to play minor chords up and down the neck. Return to Top

Movable Open-String Chords AG's music editor shows you how to turn simple chord patterns integrating open strings into magic bullets you can fire from across the fretboard. Return to Top

Music Notation Key Learn how to read music with this useful guide. It covers the basics of guitar tablature and standard notation as used in our lessons. Return to Top

Power Chords Adam Levy shows you the basics behind these bare-bones chords, and why they rock the world. Return to Top

Rhythms in Three Get comfortable playing rhythm in 3/4, 6/8, and 12/8, and you'll open up a whole new world of songs to add to your repertoire. Return to Top

Silent Night The easy-to-play arrangement of this Christmas classic is just the thing to get you into the holiday spirit. Peter Penhallow teaches 'Silent Night' using easy chords and a simple strum pattern. Return to Top

Simple Syncopated Grooves Syncopation is one of the guitar players' most valuable tools. Take this step-by-step tutorial, developed by Andrew DuBrock, and turn any simple progression into an ear-catching riff. Return to Top

Step Up to the Barre Play any major, minor, or seventh chord in any key with barre chords. Return to Top

Strum and Bass Note Patterns (Part 1of 2) The strum-and-bass rhythm technique is fundamental to many acoustic styles including bluegrass, folk, country, and rock. Larry Sandberg will teach you the basics with this full audio and tab lesson. Return to Top

Strum and Bass Note Patterns (Part 2 of 2) Learn more about the strum-and-bass rhythm technique in Part Two of this great lesson. Larry Sandberg will teach you how to embellish your strums with hammer-ons and walking bass lines. Return to Top

What Chord Names Mean (Part 1 of 2) David Hamburger demystifies confusing chord names, turning them into a tool so you can know exactly what you're playing. In this lesson he'll cover major, minor, augmented and dimished triads and seventh chords. Return to Top

What Chord Names Mean (Part 2 of 2) Starting where Part one left off, Hamburger walks you through sixth chords, five chords, suspended chords, extended chords, and chords with altered extensions. Return to Top

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