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    Black and white photo of Sean McGowan as he demonstrates essential technique for fingerstyle jazz guitar in a teaching studio, pointing to his left hand finger position

    Try Now: Proven Essential Techniques for Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar

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    Thumb Muting: How to Clean Up Fingerstyle Guitar Sound

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    Bluegrass Banjo: How To Use the Melody To Improvise

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    Bluegrass Band: How To Improvise

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    Bluegrass Fiddle: How To Make Your Break Sing

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    Bluegrass Band: How To Improvise

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    Proven Chord Progression Patterns: Why Music Feels So Familiar

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    Mandolin: A Beginner’s Guide to the Instrument and Its Styles

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    The Mandolin: How It Became the Heart of Bluegrass

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    Proven Chord Progression Patterns: Why Music Feels So Familiar

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    Chord Progression Essentials: Master the I-IV-V to Unlock Rock, Blues, and Americana

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Black and white photo of Sean McGowan as he demonstrates essential technique for fingerstyle jazz guitar in a teaching studio, pointing to his left hand finger position

Try Now: Proven Essential Techniques for Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar

August 11, 2026
Guitar
Close up color photo of Sean McGowan's fretting hand demonstrating a chord on a hollow body guitar

Fretting Hand Dexterity: How to Blend Staccato and Legato Notes

August 11, 2026
Guitar
Close up of Sean McGowan playing a hollow body guitar demonstrating thumb muting technique

Thumb Muting: How to Clean Up Fingerstyle Guitar Sound

August 11, 2026
Guitar
Sean McGowan demonstrates shadowing with the thumb, tinted desaturated photo of Sean playing guitar with a rack of guitars behind him in a greenroom

Shadowing with the Thumb: How to Add Bass Notes to Fingerstyle

August 11, 2026
Guitar
Close up color photo of Sean McGowan demonstrating the claw technique right hand shape playing multiple strings at the same time on guitar

How to Add Chordal Stabs with the Claw Technique

August 11, 2026
Guitar
Woman in her 50s sits in a sparsely decorated practice room playing a guitar plugged into a small practice amp, laptop open, learning fingerstyle guitar

How to Nail Fingerstyle Single Note Line Speed and Accuracy

August 11, 2026
Guitar
close up muted light photo of mike marshall's hands playing a Loar mandolin

Mandolin: A Beginner’s Guide to the Instrument and Its Styles

July 24, 2026
Mandolin
Mike Marshall recording mandolin lessons in the ArtistWorks studio

The Mandolin: How It Became the Heart of Bluegrass

July 24, 2026
Mandolin
cepia tone closeup of a hand holding a blue chip mandolin pick

Choro Music: The Beating Heart of the Brazilian Bandolim

July 24, 2026
Mandolin
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