Acoustic Guitar Lessons

Learn to play chords and songs and instrumentals on the acoustic guitar.

Finding And Learning How To Play Popular Acoustic Guitar Songs

Thinking of popular [tag]acoustic guitar[/tag] songs, Peter, Paul And Mary come to mind. Not the ones in the Bible, the folk group from the sixties. At that time young people were interested in folk music. One of the few groups to make a financial success from the folk boom was Peter, Paul And Mary. They helped Bob Dylan become the legend that he is by making his songs accessible to the wider music-loving public. The ones who did not find a nasal whine romantic or, indeed attractive in any way. So here’s a lesson in getting together a repertoire of…

Greensleeves is a melody that is recognized by practically everybody and is very easy to play. This makes it ideal for a beginner or intermediate guitarist to learn so they can add a classical guitar style piece to their repertoire. If you do not want to learn to play fingerstyle you can still play the piece as guitar solo by strumming the chords and picking out bass notes and melody as you see fit. Apparently the story that Greensleeves was composed by Henry VIII is no more than a myth but that does not take away from the beauty of…

Classical Guitar Music – The Anonymous Romance

The Anonymous Romance is a piece of music that gets under people’s skins. It’s one of those pieces that when you hear it the first time, you feel like you could listen to it over and over. The work has an interesting history in that there are many classical guitar enthusiasts who have a strong opinion on who wrote it. It has been known for many years in Brazil as Romance de Amor, by Antonio Rovira. Some people believe it was composed by Francisco Tarrega, a pioneer classical guitar player and composer. Other people think it was written by Narcisco…

This is a little question that I see popping up around the internet, so I thought we could look at what these guitars are for and how they differ from each other. The flamenco and classical guitars are made from two distinct types of wood to give their respective musics their individual sounds. The flamenco guitar, until the nineteen seventies, had a thin, biting sound which was vastly different from the deep sound of the classical guitar. As the new wave of flamenco guitarists like Serranito and Paco De Lucia experimented with new ideas in flamenco, they also chose to…