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4 days ago | 
acousticguitar.com | Joey Lusterman |Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers |Adam Perlmutter |Dale Miller
In April 2025, we debuted the Acoustic Guitar Teaching Artist series, a program designed to help you grow as a guitarist. Our cohort of instructors—Isa Burke, Lisa Liu, Sean McGowan, Mamie Minch, and Thu Tran—is committed to helping you discover new musical and creative territory throughout the year, offering one new video lesson each week, plus virtual concerts, roundtable discussions, and more. You can unlock access for just $5 a month.
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1 week ago | 
acousticguitar.com | Joey Lusterman |Doug Young |Mark Hanson |Luke Edwards
Scott Goldbaum is an in-demand session and performing guitarist who has collaborated with artists such as Sting, Dashboard Confessional, and Keith Urban. With “Taste and Tame,” an ethereal acoustic rock original, Goldbaum employs a deft tremolo picking-inspired fingerstyle pattern that creates a quiet intensity. It’s a challenging song, both technically and emotionally; Goldbaum composed the music and lyrics after he was diagnosed with a severe heart arrhythmia.
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3 weeks ago | 
acousticguitar.com | Joey Lusterman |Adam Perlmutter |Patrick Francis |Kate Koenig
On April 1, 2025 we debuted the inaugural Acoustic Guitar Teaching Artist cohort: Isa Burke, Lisa Liu, Sean McGowan, Mamie Minch, and Thu Tran. These five Teaching Artists will help you grow as a guitarist with one new video lesson every week. And there is a lot more to look forward to, including interactive roundtable discussions, virtual open mics, and even more acoustic guitar expertise! You can unlock access for just $5 a month.
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1 month ago | 
acousticguitar.com | Joey Lusterman |Greg Cahill |Mark Kemp
On a recent tour, singer-songwriter Victoria Canal stopped by the AG studio to play some music and talk about her new album, Slowly it Dawns. In this trio of songs—“June Baby,” “Yes Man,” and “15%,”—Canal shares not only her talents as songwriter, but as a vocalist and performer. Despite performing in a small room for an audience of just three (me; her tour manager; and her accompanying guitarist,Callaghan Kevany), Canal put her entire heart and soul into playing these songs.
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2 months ago | 
acousticguitar.com | Joey Lusterman |Adam Perlmutter
Five awesome Teaching Artists—Isa Burke, Lisa Liu, Mamie Minch, Sean McGowan, and Thu Tran—want to help you grow as a guitarist!Beginning April 1, they’ll be sharing engaging insights and invaluable guitar wisdom with you each and every week in the Acoustic Guitar Patreon community. To kick things off, we hosted a live hangout with the TAs. It was a whole lot of fun and featured songs, stories, and a window into the musical lives of these great guitarists.
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2 months ago | 
acousticguitar.com | Joey Lusterman |Whitney Phaneuf
Olivia Wolf’s bluegrass upbringing fueled her passion for music, but it was mainstream country radio that really inspired her to craft her own sound. “I heard Tricia Yearwood and Miranda Lambertand Randy Travis, and it was like a drug—all I could think was, ‘How do I hear more of this?’”It turns out the best way to hear more of the music she loved was to create it herself, and Wolf’s San Francisco-to-Nashville, existential-folk-rock-country sound is spotlighted in this Acoustic Guitar Session.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
acousticguitar.com | Nick Grizzle |Jamie Stillway |Lyzy Lusterman |Joey Lusterman
Guitarist and singer-songwriter Courtney Hartman discusses her evolution from flashy flatpicker to introspective songwriter, the staying power of old-time music, her relationship with Bourgeois Guitars, and shares insights from teaching music. Additional Resources:Visit Courtney Hartman’s website. Learn to play her arrangement of “Cumberland Gap”Join our Patreon community for access to more podcast episodes, lessons, and workshops.
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Jan 1, 2025 | 
acousticguitar.com | Joey Lusterman
Taking time out from a recent West Coast tour, fingerstyle virtuoso Hiroya Tsukamoto stopped by the AG offices to share some songs. Originally from Japan, Tsukamoto got his musical start on the banjo as a teenager, and in 2000 moved to the US to study guitar at Berklee College of Music in Boston. These days, he’s renowned not only for his masterful technical ability on the six-string, but also for his sublime compositions.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
acousticguitar.com | Joey Lusterman |Kevin Owens
With a focus on melody and a distaste for flash and complexity for complexity’s sake, Hayden Pedigo has become a leading voice in the acoustic fingerstyle soundscape. “I believe fingerstyle guitar pieces should be simple enough where any skill level can approach the song and play it in a convincing way,” Pedigo says. “That’s what makes it folk music: the song is sharable and can be passed around.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
acousticguitar.com | Dale Miller |Andrew DuBrock |Adam Perlmutter |Joey Lusterman
We know what you’re thinking: “It’s way too early for Christmas music!” But if you start practicing these fingerstyle arrangements of holiday songs now, you’ll have them mastered by the time Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Eve roll around. We invite you to join Holiday Songs for Fingerstyle Guitar author Sean McGowan on November 1, at 2PM PST a live workshop. Sean will break down an arrangement from the book and give an inside look into his arranging process.
