Over the past few years, acoustic fingerstyle guitar has re-emerged as a major force on the independent folk and pop music scenes. And just as this often-rococo, sometimes-driving, sometimes-dreamy ...

Americana superstar Jason Isbell is the quintessential guitarist’s guitarist. Equally at home on both electric and acoustic guitar he is a master fingerpicker, riff writer and lead player. He’s a ...

Fingerstyle guitarist Teja Gerken will be the first to tell you that there are no real stars in his kind of music. Even the legends in the world of fingerstyle acoustic guitar — masters like Leo ...

The main advantage to fake nails is that you essentially have five picks instead of one. Players that were already hybrid ...

If you recognise the name Casper Esmann, he's the talented Danish fingerstyle acoustic guitar player who was a 2018 finalist when we ran our Guitarist Of The Year. competition. He's continued to go ...

Whether you’re a regular fingerstyle player or it’s a technique you’ve never tried, we always recommend paying attention to the basics. This short lesson shows you the best ways to approach ...

A staple of the Chicago music scene, National Fingerpicking Champion Eric Lugosch is bringing his award-winning blues, jazz, and ragtime fingerstyle guitar playing to the Dayton area for the first ...

Acoustic songs can rock too. Feel free to throw the horns while cranking these unplugged bangers from the 1960s.

Fingerstyle guitarists Teja Gerken, left, and Doug Young collaborated for “Duets.” (Photo by Teri Young) Fairfax musician Teja Gerken picked up the guitar when he was 6 years old. (Photo by Morgan ...