Credit: Future Last month, I delved into the world of fingerpicking in the Piedmont/Mississippi John Hurt/Rev. Gary Davis/Blind Blake style, with a look at the basics of this technique. As I detailed, ...

With Secret Love, Dry Cleaning’s compelling combination of interior monologues and art-rock backdrops reaches a zenith. In the four years since their last outing, the quartet doesn’t succumb to ...

The extended play album is an art form not many artists have ever truly mastered. Long considered a “non-committal” medium, EPs rarely run more than 30 minutes and are meant to offer listeners a taste ...

As a child, Dr. Philippa Strum aspired to become “the world’s greatest cellist” before shifting her interests to political science, especially constitutional law and civil liberties. Since the 1970s, ...

live forever is played with six basic open chords and just two chord progressions to learn throughout the entire song that first chord progression is used in the verses and is G [Music] Major D major ...

Guitar lessons: As John Lennon once claimed, “Before Elvis, there was nothing.” So it's not surprising that US rock ’n’ roll provided the major influence on his early playing style, as well as ...

The joke writes itself: "How do you know when a prog tune ends?" "When it's time to flip the record over." Decisions, decisions — but, ultimately, fun ones. If Yes can solve the creative puzzle that ...

Fifty years ago, in 1972, “American Pie” hit the top of the Billboard charts. The song became an instant classic with novice and veteran guitar players flocking to learn the chords. That still holds ...

Generally with folk you’ll be playing fingerstyle, but standard strumming is commonplace too and sounds great with open-string drone chords. Altered tunings feature heavily and will help bust you out ...

Philippa Strum, Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, is the Center’s former Director of the Division of United States Studies as well as Broeklundian Professor of ...