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Strumming is probably the most essential guitar technique in existence. The word itself is a synonym for playing guitar, and your non-musician friends might ask you to strum a few chords for them at a ...

Get started with chords, rhythm and picking with this lesson on the basics of acoustic guitar playing. It doesn’t matter whether you’re an absolute beginner or if you’ve played for a little bit longer ...

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 ...