How Megan and Rebecca Lovell of Larkin Poe traveled from bluegrass to blues rock and beyond.

Learn the basics of open G tuning and an arrangement of the Rolling Stones’ “Wild Horses,” as played by Keith Richards.

Learn the fingerpicking guitar part for John Prine’s classic “Hello in There.”

Roots music performer and teacher Happy Traum looks back at his 50-plus-year career, and shares how to play some of his signature songs.

Learn “The Cave” as played by Marcus Mumford in open-D tuning.

The Zoom H2n Handy Recorder can be used as a USB mic for online meetings, live streams, or recording. Here’s how.

A conversation with Americana icon Lucinda Williams about guitar and songwriting, with a video lesson teaching rhythm patterns from some of her best songs.

Learn the classic guitar hook from “Passionate Kisses,” as heard on the Lucinda Williams original track as well as Mary Chapin Carpenter’s Grammy-winning cover.

Learn Jason Mraz's original guitar arrangement, his redo in an alternate tuning, and a standard tuning version that includes the intro riff.

Learn simple, powerful ways to add freshness and variety to chord progressions.

An intro video lesson on using a five-string partial capo to create open-tuning-like sounds while remaining in standard tuning.

A new alternate-tuning guitar arrangement of the Pink Floyd classic “Wish You Were Here.”

A video lesson on how to develop varied and dynamic arrangements with two guitars.

Learn how to play the Grateful Dead’s “If I Had the World to Give” arranged for acoustic guitar.

A video lesson on how choosing efficient fingerings can help you make your playing faster and more fluid.

A video lesson on how to play in waltz time, from “Ashokan Farewell” to “Edelweiss” to “Sweet Baby James.”

Learn how to play Brandi Carlile’s “The Eye,” watch a new cover video, and download a free mp3.

Explore the stripped-down accompaniment style behind classic songs like “Ain’t No Sunshine,” “Grandma’s Hands,” and “Use Me.”

Discover the guitar secrets of Paul Simon’s classic story song “The Boxer,” and learn an arrangement that incorporates the original guitar intro, instrumental interlude, and more.

A look inside the the John Lennon Songwriting Contest winner “Fly,” from its beginnings in the fiddle tune “Sally Goodin” through its evolution onstage.