Truefire Eric Haugen's Guitar Zen Acoustic [TUTORiAL]

The difference between ordinary strumming and captivating acoustic rhythm guitar lies in the details. In Guitar Zen: Acoustic, Eric Haugen breaks down the subtle techniques, thoughtful embellishments, and musical concepts that will allow your acoustic playing to breathe with depth, expression, and life.

Drawing from traditions across folk, blues, and country music, Eric will guide you through his signature approach to acoustic rhythm playing. You'll explore everything from melodic fills and double stops to crosspicking patterns and chromatic movements, all while developing the musical intuition to know when to embellish and when to leave space.

You’ll learn how to:

• Develop authentic Carter-style strumming techniques for driving acoustic rhythms
• Transform simple progressions with strategic pentatonic accents
• Weave major and minor pentatonic fills into your chord progressions
• Master crosspicking patterns that add texture and dimension
• Balance technique with restraint for more musical rhythm playing
• Create a dialogue between rhythm patterns and melodic ideas

Each lesson systematically builds your rhythmic vocabulary, helping you naturally incorporate these techniques into your playing. You'll practice everything in context with specially designed backing tracks that develop your timing and musicality.

And with TrueFire's interactive tools including synced tab, slow-mo, looping, and fretboard animations, you can master each concept at your own comfortable pace.

“Acoustic rhythm guitar doesn’t have to be just strumming chords. It can be a whole conversation between groove, melody and texture,” says Eric. “You don’t need to overthink it or overload your playing – it’s about keeping things relaxed and musical, and letting the guitar breathe.”

Grab your acoustic guitar and discover the zen of expressive rhythm playing with Eric Haugen!

Includes

• 41 Video Lessons
• 20 Charts (.pdf)
• 7 Jam Tracks (.mp3)
• 20 Tabs (.gp5 or .ptb)
• Runtime: 02:18:52

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