Learn this haunting Celtic tune, played in 9/8 time and DADGAD tuning. Legend has it, this tune is too beautiful and mysterious to have been written by human hands. Its composition is credited to the Faeries of Ireland.

Get your love beads on and learn to play this fun and easy classic. We opted for a simple approach to this song, so we'll be delving into a solo guitar version by Janis Joplin. We'll look at the chords, strumming patterns, and guitar work...and we'll also look at the overall song structure, and what it is that makes this "cinematic" country song "tick".

Lisa McCormick gives you a complete tour of this classic 70s hit by Cat Stevens, guiding you through the song form and chord structure, strumming rhythms, signature riffs, and the songwriting sensibilities. You get a full play-along at the end of the tutorial, plus a bonus lesson at the very end!

In folk music, the guitar often plays more of a supporting role than the starring role. For this reason, it is easy to learn literally hundreds of songs, using rather simple chord structures. In this series, we stick to the chords G, C, and D, and explore how the personality of the song itself makes each song into its own distinct unique pieces of music.

5 traditional Christmas songs are presented with fingerstyle arrangements. Each song has an arrangement to accompany singing, and also an instrumental melody solo.

Play 13 classic holiday songs with just three chords. Single-note melody solos are also included. Use of a capo is recommended to adjust the pitch of each song to best suit your singing voice, and suggested capo settings are included.

In this tutorial we are going to learn how to play "Dust in the Wind" as made famous by Kansas. We'll focus on the musical elements that have made this song a long standing classic, by way of teaching you the acclaimed acoustic guitar parts and violin solo. We will break down the tutorial into 5 video lessons.

Often we play chord progressions that are predictable and boring. Inversions are a way to break up the old sound of over used chord progressions and to add a new interesting dimension to your chord progression.

This tutorial walks you through all the skills and information needed to play Closer to Fine. Besides the guitar parts, we also look at the dynamics, vocal harmony, lyrical composition, and song structure.

Scarborough Fair is a traditional song with it's origins in Medieval times, and the Simon and Garfunkel recording was a hit in the 60s. In this tutorial, instructor Bobby Howe plays his own arrangement using a capo, teaching how chord shapes are the same up and down the fretboard.

This condensed lesson presents 2 versions of the classic carol, "What Child is This?", also known as "Greensleeves". First, we'll take a look at a fingerstyle arrangement you could use if you were going to sing the song. Second, we'll learn an instrumental melody solo. Learn one, or learn both. They go together perfectly! A more thorough tutorial on "What Child is This" can be found a...

"Freshen Up Your Guitar Playing" is a lesson that hopefully will show you how to see a new way of thinking about the guitar. We are so locked into playing chord shapes covering 6 or 5 strings that we don't realize how many options we have within those chords. I always try and subdivide any chord I have learned into smaller chords that cover 3 strings. When you use this approach, and add n...

This lesson is all about getting your right hand used to doing something other than just strumming.The main object of these excercises is to get your right hand thumb to habitually play the bottom note of any chord.By bottom note I mean root note which could be found on any of the bottom three strings depending on the chord - e.g. the root of open D is the 4th string open - the root of open Em is ...

Is it possible to do full bends using an acoustic guitar? This question was posted recently in the forum area. Apparently, the person in question was attempting to do full bends that either had no result at all or ended up with a broken string. While it is definitely possible to do full bends on an acoustic, there are a couple of tricks you can use to make this much more simple. For starters,...

Betsy Likens is a traditional tune from the Appalachian Mountain region of the United States. It would typically be played on a fiddle or a clawhammer banjo. This adaptation for guitar is in DADGAD tuning. I have put the capo on the 5th fret to raise the key to be more in keeping with what a fiddle or banjo would play. You can certainly play it without the capo, but it will have a lower sound....