Dylan Schorer

Aug 4, 2024 | acousticguitar.com | Dylan Schorer |Gretchen Menn |Sean McGowan |Sean Mcgowan |Scott Nygaard

In the first installment of this Basics series on chord embellishments (July/August 2024 issue), we focused on simple ways to sweeten your accompaniment by using hammer-ons and pull-offs with open chord shapes—either hammering onto a fretted note from an open string, or pulling off of a fretted note down to the open string.

May 7, 2023 | acousticguitar.com | Cathy Fink |Dylan Schorer |Doug Young |Steve Baughman

About Acoustic Guitar lessons. Learning to play the guitar takes more than just figuring out what fingers go on which frets and which strings to pluck or pick. You need to absorb these mechanics, for sure, but you also need to know how different techniques fit together and how you can put them to use in service of making music with soul and spirit.