When Guitar Player presented Johnny A.’s solo looping show at Yoshi’s for our first event of 2025 he graciously granted permission to shoot iPhone video at sound check. An Instagram clip quickly ...

Though No One And The Elses have played crowd-pleasing covers such as “Sunday Morning” by Maroon Five, they were emphatic, ...

[acoustic guitar intro] [finger-picking in a country-folk pattern] ♪ ♪ ♪ Out in the ... that I started plucking on, and I just started making up songs, it just kind of kept snowballing ...

But we can get past that when the guitar playing is this good. A solo acoustic-folk performance by Paul McCartney, with the Beatle gently plucking a moveable, two-finger pattern on a Martin D-28 that ...

Widely credited as the man who invented thumping and plucking, or slap bass if you prefer, he switched to bass from guitar and famously ... the bassline sets the pattern.” How did you record ...

Firstly there’s the sound – an almost deliberately boring, non-eventful-yet-hypnotic pluck – and there’s that timing ... and The Edge issuing perhaps his most iconic guitar pattern, a briskly strummed ...

Built on a plucked guitar loop and layered strings ... The song opens with gentle, repetitive plucking that feels both intimate and claustrophobic. It’s the kind of loop that could easily lull you ...

Every once in a while, you come across someone so skilled with an instrument that it makes you reconsider what you thought ...

In this lesson inspired by Molly Tuttle, Trey Hensley and the O.G. of acoustic folk playing Maybelle Carter, we'll make one ...