Here's what you do. You pick up your dad's acoustic, go up to your dad and say "I'm ready to learn................teach me how to do controlled feedb...

Very worthy article, King. Especially for the many of us who are constantly hunting that elusive prey known as "spare time". :D

In my situation over the last couple of months I've heaped way too much on my plate. Unfortunately I have not been able to put in nearly as much time...

Ok, I've only got a whopping 1.5 years experience under my belt ;) but I can't see anything wrong with the ORDER in which you fingerpick your chords. ...

you are limiting yourself if you use the ring finger to barre that A.I use the index finger; it then allows my other fingers to stretch out and play ...

As a relative beginner, I have personally found that the best way to begin achieving success with "A-shaped" barre chords is to use my ring finger to ...

The other technique I use is to play along with a recording of the song and let the artist sing for me. As I get more comfortable with playing the so...

Again, not true about increased chance of arthritis. In fact, you're more likely to have increased chance of arthritis with LESS joint range. Increa...

There's a great lesson for this song over at Danny Poole's website. It includes video as well.You can find it under "Songs (Free Access)" on the menu...

Hmm, having a hard time trying to understand this. All I can think of is where you're barring strings, thereby playing two or more notes in a row but...

I'm not sure how much theory you've looked into at this point but that's what I'd be advising. Once you've learnt the most common chords, I think it'...

notes that are on top of each other ... Could you possibly clarify/expand on that? Possibly an example of such if you have one?

I'm a bit of a Squeak Freak; nothin' like the sound of good 'squeak'. :DBut, it's handy to have ways of dealing with it should the piece being played...

The B major chord is often played without the F# on the high E string. The F# (the V of the chord) is already taken care of on the D string.