New Course Available! Contemporary Bluegrass Banjo with Wes Corbett
By: Dan Gabel
September 19, 2019
Sign up now to learn single-string and melodic style banjo, with lessons on fingerboard theory, improvisation, and more.
Tags: Banjo
Derk’s Discoveries: Three of a Kind
By: Derk Richardson
July 24, 2019
On its riveting Rule of 3, Väsen brings seamless virtuosity and emotional depth to its original take on Swedish folk traditions.
Chord Melody Mandolin with Aaron Weinstein Now Available!
By: Dan Gabel
May 30, 2019
Sign up now for our latest mandolin course, and learn how to combine chords and melody to play jazz standards.
Tags: Mandolin
Irish Backup Guitar with Flynn Cohen Now Available!
By: Dan Gabel
May 30, 2019
Learn to accompany jigs and reels and other traditional Irish dance tunes in the style pioneered by Irish guitar greats. Enroll now!
Tags: Guitar
Preston Thompson, 1956–2019
By: Teja Gerken
May 9, 2019
The Thompson Guitars founder leaves a legacy of high-quality vintage-inspired guitar making.
Tags: Thompson Guitars
Derk’s Discoveries: Michael Chapman’s Beautiful Melancholy
By: Derk Richardson
April 29, 2019
Youth may be wasted on the young, but age becomes the English acoustic guitar icon.
Tags: Guitar, Songwriting
Derk’s Discoveries: When Picking Is Your Passion
By: Derk Richardson
March 6, 2019
Tyler Grant and Robin Kessinger infuse their acoustic guitar flatpicking duets with unbridled joy.
Derk’s Discoveries: UK Primitive
By: Derk Richardson
November 12, 2018
Welsh-born Gwenifer Raymond: a new force in fingerstyle guitar
Tags: Guitar
Tony McManus Healdsburg Guitar Retreat 2018
By: Teja Gerken
October 10, 2018
Peghead Nation co-founder Teja Gerken to join Celtic Guitar instructor for a weekend of guitar immersion in Healdsburg, California.
Derk’s Discoveries: Pete Don’t Sing the Blues, But He Sure Can Pick ‘Em
By: Derk Richardson
September 11, 2018
On his new album, guitarist Pete Madsen yields the lead vocals to Celeste Kopel as they travel the blues highway from Mississippi to Chicago.
Derk’s Discoveries: Getting to Know Noah
By: Derk Richardson
August 7, 2018
Discover Canadian singer-songwriter Noah Zacharin, who's within six degrees of Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Ralph Carney, and me.
Tags: Guitar, Singer-Songwriter
Derk’s Discoveries: A Day in the “Life Of” …
By: Derk Richardson
July 23, 2018
Eight years in coming, the new album by 12-string guitarist Steve Tibbetts is a beautiful rumination on what it means to be human.
Tags: Guitar
New Course! The Banjo According to Danny Barnes
By: Dan Gabel
July 3, 2018
Start taking lessons now with the roots music iconoclast. Danny Barnes reveals his systematic approach to the banjo, with one-of-a-kind insights on improvisation, tone, rhythm, and more.
Tags: Banjo, Danny Barnes
New Course! Clawhammer Guitar with Steve Baughman
By: Dan Gabel
May 2, 2018
Learn how to use the traditional clawhammer style of old-time banjo on the guitar. Join Steve now!
Tags: Guitar
Derk’s Discoveries: Duck! It’s Baker Time.
By: Derk Richardson
April 24, 2018
A spate of new releases by Duck Baker puts the fingerstyle guitarist's eclectic career in perspective.
Tags: Guitar
