Acoustic Guitar

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Acoustic GuitarGuitarsIntrepid Jazz Guitarist Brandon Ross on Intervallic Thinking, Creating in Real Time, and His Klein Steel-String The guitarist/composer looks back on his distinguished and eclectic career and talks about his inconvenient fondness for unusual guitars.

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Acoustic GuitarGuitarsLearn “Billy Lyons and Stack O’Lee”—A Fingerstyle Country-Blues Classic Mamie Minch show how to play Furry Lewis’ rolling version of this true crime classic.

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Acoustic GuitarGuitarsMeet the D’Addario Backline Acoustic Guitar Case Durable and lightweight with integrated storage throughout, the Backline Acoustic Guitar Case keeps your instrument protected and your setup neatly organized.

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Acoustic GuitarGuitarsThe Almighty Dreadnought—The Design, Players, and Music that Shaped the World’s Defining Flattop The dreadnought’s path to becoming the world’s most popular acoustic guitar model wasn’t inevitable. This is the story of how it got there.

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Acoustic GuitarGuitarsThe Art of Acoustic: A Custom Grand Orchestra with Bold Character Sponsored by Taylor Guitars: In this episode of The Art of Acoustic, discover a custom Grand Orchestra that brings together striking visual details and an expansive, commanding voice.

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Acoustic GuitarGuitarsTriplet Patterns to Improve Your Time Feel and Inspire New Lines | Weekly Workout Triplets are a hallmark rhythm in all genres of music and can help take your playing to new and exciting places, whether you’re playing lead guitar in a band or composing your own fingerstyle…

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Acoustic GuitarGuitarsReview: The Breedlove Roots Concert RTC-MMe Is a Mahogany Lover’s Delight in a Concert-Sized Package A member of Breedlove's new US-made Roots series, the Concert RTC-MMe offers rich tone, versatility, and mahogany.

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Acoustic GuitarGuitarsLearn Laura Snowden’s Melody-Driven Arrangement of the Traditional Irish Folk Song “Carrickfergus” This arrangement for classical guitar is all about resonance and letting the melody sing.

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Acoustic GuitarGuitarsHow to Play “Heart of Gold,” Neil Young’s Simple but Enduring Hit Harmonically, the song, which is in the key of E minor, is very simple. It’s built from five chords—in order of appearance, Em7, D, Em, C, and G.

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Acoustic GuitarGuitarsLetter from the Editor | Acoustic Guitar, Fall 2026 Issue 359 Whether it's Isa Burke's interview with Courtney Hartman, the luthier roundtable, or the transcription of Paul McCartney’s "Days We Left Behind," I hope enjoy spending time with this issue and find…

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Three pins, and nearly every signal in this business passes through them.

The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

More than three hundred sources, in sixteen languages: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

For each story: a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the maker or the photographer. A German review appears in German and a Japanese one in Japanese, as the writer published it; the link goes to the original.

Nothing is sold on this site. When a link leads to a shop, it is the maker's shop, not ours.