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Play a funky dropped-D guitar arrangement of the classic traditional song, inspired by the Grateful Dead.

Introducing “Don’t Let AI Write Your Stinking Song”: a co-writing experiment with ChatGPT.

Learn an acoustic arrangement of the Cream classic, played in dropped-D tuning.

Learn how to play the original George Harrison guitar riff, and then how to adapt it for other keys and other songs.

Learn an acoustic arrangement of Don Henley’s classic song, with a guitar adaptation of the original synthesizer riff.

Dylan traces songs like “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “Boots of Spanish Leather” back to the folk songs that inspired them. An annotated excerpt from his 2015 MusiCares speech, with an accompanying playlist.

Try this exercise to improve your fretting finger dexterity and strength and practice alternate picking too.

Here’s a great exercise for warming up and playing melodies and lead too.

Read a deep-dive interview/profile on my path as a musician, writer, and editor.

Video lesson on the guitar style of Nickel Creek’s Sean Watkins, with examples from their album Celebrants.

Video lesson with examples based on songs by Neil Young, James Taylor, Janis Ian, Dave Matthews, and more

Learn a fingerstyle guitar arrangement of the Jimmy Cliff classic from The Harder They Come.

A songwriter’s guide to arranging and performing other people’s songs

Tips and exercises to help you get out of ruts and discover new territory on the guitar

Learn the correct tuning and the intro riff for the Brandi Carlile’s Joni Mitchell–esque song.

Why you sometimes need to shut down the music to hear the music.

Part two of a video lesson on playing sixths intervals on guitar, as used in classic riffs from songs by Cat Stevens, Van Morrison, Jim Croce, and more.

The Silent Nights Guitar Collection album/songbook expands with new arrangements of “What Child Is This?,” “O Little Town of Bethlehem,” and “Jingle Bells.”

Explore sixths intervals on guitar, as used in classic riffs from songs by Van Morrison, John Fogerty, Cat Stevens, and more.

A new video of “Friend of the Devil” by Dead to the Core, plus introductions to the musicians: Jefferson Hamer, Ryan Fitzsimmons, Laurence Scudder, and Wendy Ramsay.