The Interlochen Guitar Institute
A Ground-Breaking Weekend of Inspiration

by John Wunsch

Nothing inspires, reinvigorates, informs, and builds camaraderie among guitarists the way workshops and concerts at the best festivals do. While representatives of venerable institutions of learning from Julliard to Peabody have appeared at conferences and guitar festivals to offer instruction in jazz and classical studies, many other modern styles have not made the cut.

This August 23-25, the Interlochen Guitar Institute will shatter this precedent to offer workshops and master classes in virtually every guitar style. In addition to classical, jazz, rock, acoustic fingerstyle.... more

Makin' Trax

Let's Talk About Space

by Phil Gates

For years as guitarists, we've used the reverbs on our amps without even thinking. We've just been turning up the reverb knob to taste, not really knowing, or caring about room size, density, early reflections...more

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Classical

Improving Picado Technique, Part 3

by Carlos Castilla

This month I'll introduce a new technique to play scales based on the free-stroke or tirando technique. This concept flies in the face of tradition as free strokes aren't usually the classical guitarist's first choice for playing...more

1.  John Jackson - The Video Collection

John Jackson grew up in rural Virginia, listening to the older musicians around him and the blues stars whose records he heard on his family's wind-up phonograph...

2.  Pickin' Like Chet: Chet Atkins Vintage Classics, Vol. 1
3.  Judicael Perroy in Concert
4.  Guitar Quick Licks - Ritchie Blackmore: Classic Rock, Key of G
5.  Early Jazz For Fingerstyle Guitar

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Alex de Grassi in Concert

review by Richard Turner

Given Alex de Grassi's early association with Windham Hill Records, I expected to see a new-age holdover on this DVD, now a more mature gentleman of course, but perhaps appearing with at least a pyramid on his head and surrounded by...more

Shapes, Patterns & Lines for Jazz Guitar

by Jim Ferguson

Jim Ferguson, one of the foremost names in jazz guitar instruction, helps you unleash the improvisational power of fingerboard shapes-utilized by many guitar...

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