Josh Workman

May 24, 2024 | acousticguitar.com | Jane Miller |Michael Chapdelaine |Josh Workman |Greg Ruby

Playing in the pocket, or keeping consistent time, is an essential musical skill for all guitarists regardless of style or context. Yet, I have found that a basic understanding of rhythmic notation and its application to strumming can be a challenge to many guitarists. That’s a real shame because of the benefits it can give to your overall musicianship. Notation is simply a code of instructions—once you understand the code, it becomes much easier to know what to do and when to do it.

Mar 22, 2024 | acousticguitar.com | Gretchen Menn |David Hamburger |Josh Workman |Sean McGowan |Sean Mcgowan

The use of harmonics showcases one of the most beautiful techniques available on the guitar. There are two kinds of harmonics: natural and artificial. This lesson will focus on how to play both types and incorporate them into your playing. Harmonics appear in virtually all styles of guitar music, from classical to bluegrass to rock.

Sep 8, 2023 | acousticguitar.com | Adam Levy |Josh Workman |Cathy Fink |Jane Miller

Many of us learn to improvise by memorizing a couple of scale patterns and then matching them to the key that we’re in. On a good day, melodies are born, blues are expressed, licks are found. On a not-so-good day, when it’s your turn to solo the song is not in the right key—not only that, it changes keys every two or four bars, and by the time you figure out how to chase that around, it’s not your turn anymore.

Jul 12, 2023 | acousticguitar.com | Scott Nygaard |Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers |Cathy Fink |Josh Workman

Maybe you are familiar with basic boom-chuck patterns in different keys, but not yet the common guitar key of D major. In this lesson, you’ll learn the basic boom-chuck accompaniment on a I–IV–V (D–G–A) progression in D, then make it sound more interesting by playing around with the bass line in a couple of different variations.