When I was learning to play the guitar as a boy back in the 1960s, my friends would get a blank look on their faces when I was playing my guitar, and then suddenly I would grab the phone (land line of course) and hold the receiver up to my ear. Little did they kno…

Before I get into “how to use a guitar capo” I need to explain a few fundamental facts about what a guitar capo is, what it does and why use one in the first place.

What is a guitar capo?

The guitar capo is a device which clamps down on the guitar strings behind t…

1. Interactive Learning

Like taking guitar lessons from a local guitar teacher, Zoom guitar lessons are private, one-on-one and face-to-face. You can ask a question like, “am I playing this right?” or “could you show me that again?” Try doing that with an instruct…

If you’re like me, you love the folk music of the Sixties, when folksingers like Peter, Paul and Mary, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Phil Ochs and Tom Paxton played the music that defined an era. If you’re nostalgic for the great music that rose up from the folk tradit…

This clip came from a documentary about Ohio State University and the "short north' area of Columbus Ohio. The video excerpt shows me playing guitar and singing the song "Bridge Over Troubled water" by Simon & Garfunkel. To watch the excerpt with me playing guitar…

My name is Dennis Whitt, and I'd like to share with you my experiences and memories of playing folk music at a time when folk music was everywhere! From huge folk music festivals, to protesting the Vietnam War, to television shows like hootnanny and "The Smothers …

Folk Music during the period of The American Folk Music Revival is a subject very near and dear to my heart. I grew up playing guitar and listening to Peter, Paul & Mary, Simon & Garfunkel, Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and m…

I t was about 1961 when I got my first guitar. I was 12 years old and my parents had given it to me as a birthday present. It was a “dreadnought”, otherwise known as a steel-string acoustic or “flat-top” guitar and I was excited to learn how to play it. So, when a…