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Learn a song or new guitar technique. Get expert advice on caring for your guitar or shopping for a new instrument. Sample a new musical style or dive deeper into your favorite genre. Check out our latest songs, lessons, and advice below or search the online archives, where you’ll find hundreds of articles that will help you improve your playing.
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Songs
Learn to Play the Traditional Tune "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down"
This excerpt from Traditional Songs with Jody Stecher asks you to play the song in the key of F.
Play "Careless Love" on Mandolin
This eight-bar excerpt comes from Roots and Blues Mandolin and is played mostly with double-stops on low and high string pairs in closed positions.
Lessons
Use the Flatted Fifth in Your Blues Scale Licks
Today’s excerpt from Acoustic Rock Essentials shows you three different ways you can use the flatted fifth in your blues scale licks.
Emulate the Piano Using Guide Tone Voicings
When playing through the examples in today’s excerpt from Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar Essentials, the trick is to keep the half-note guide tones sustaining while playing the eighth-note lines on top.
Advice
Guitar Restringing Tips from Elixir® Strings
Looking for an easy way to restring your guitar? Watch the Elixir® Strings video.
Presented by Elixir® Strings
James Nash's Real-World Rig
See and hear how this flatpicking ace puts powerful digital recording technology to work onstage.