I've been playing the guitar for about 20 yrs, just inherited a banjo. It's kind of old, the top tuning peg is painful to turn and buzzes and the thi...

Bob Evans (great Canadian fingerpicker and all 'round fine musician) has a lovely, simple arrangement for fingerstyle guitar on his site, Click the ...

I really like John Pearse. They are a little more expensive than others, but are really very good.

My Grade 3 teacher, Miss Van Ness, was an old folkie in 1968, and she'd play us songs when she tired of the stuff she should have been teaching. She ...

Fingerstyle is a very personal, individual technique. Yes, there are mechanics out there who play a brutally rigid, exacting right-hand technique. A...

Ricochet's got it right.Use extra-light guage strings, play with your fingers, and play softly. The last bit is the hardest. It takes quite a bit of...

Olav's site is a real delight. His lessons are not specifically jazz oriented, but if you poke around you'll find lots of jazz-inspired blues stuff.