Tuning your guitar to CGDGAD and adding a partial capo on the top 5 strings at the 5th fret is a creative setup that opens up some rich harmonic possibilities—especially for fingerstyle and modal/folk-inspired playing. Let’s break it down: 🪕 Step 1: Tuning —…
Great question! The Spider Capo is a unique capo because it lets you individually capo each string, unlike a traditional capo that frets all strings across one fret. Here’s why you might use it, especially as a fingerstyle guitarist or creative arranger: 🎯…
As a kid, I was transfixed by Tommy Emmanuel’s arrangements of pop and rock tunes for solo guitar. Tommy would play the melody, bass, harmony – and sometimes add in percussion- just using 6-strings! Amazing. I wanted to learn how…
If you’ve ever been captivated by the rich, layered sound of an acoustic guitar that sounds like multiple instruments at once, you’ve likely heard fingerstyle guitar in action. But what exactly is it—and how is it different from other guitar…
If you’ve ever been captivated by the rich, layered sound of an acoustic guitar that sounds like multiple instruments at once, you’ve likely heard fingerstyle guitar in action. But what exactly is it—and how is it different from other guitar…
If you’ve ever been captivated by the rich, layered sound of an acoustic guitar that sounds like multiple instruments at once, you’ve likely heard fingerstyle guitar in action. But what exactly is it—and how is it different from other guitar…