In this 90-minute video, Doc Watson appears in half a dozen performances, ably supported by the late Merle Watson in one segment and by Jack Lawrence in the others. Norman Blake and the Rising ...

Try accenting a change with a purposeful raked downstroke beside the bridge. Fingerstyle playing on acoustic guitar is older than flatpicking, so, if you’re only ever using a plectrum, you’re missing ...

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Texan maestro David Grissom shows us how we can tidy up our hybrid picking and help accentuate syncopated rhythms in our ...

The bluegrass virtuoso and jamband hero teams up with pop superproducer Jon Brion without forsaking his roots.

Vince Gill might be one of the most talented musicians in Nashville today. Here are four performances that set a high bar.

It’s a stately waltz decorated by flatpicking guitar lines from Strings, while its chorus is so packed with intoxicants — wine, whiskey, pills, easy women, cocaine — that it’s bound to ...

I had to learn how to flatpick." Of McLaughlin's new CD, Guitar Magazine says, "That enthusiasm and love of flatpicking guitar music infuses nearly every track of Cliffs of Vermilion with a sense ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. One of the great pleasures of acoustic guitar is the direct connection you have with your ...

He also teaches adult Sunday classes at his church, paints miniature figures, dabbles in flatpick guitar when he can fit it in and argues about current events, politics, stupid memes and Japanese ...

CLINTON — Italian guitarist Beppe Gambetta will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5 at the Kirkland Art Center, 9 1/2 East ...

and started picking out a tune on an old Kay guitar. In 1965 ... and switched from flatpicking to finger picking, resulting in the song’s ethereal chiming quality. The producer Tom Wilson ...