Spend 40 minutes watching Kinloch Nelson in this Acoustic Guitar Session and you might just become a better guitarist.

Playing her cherished Maton EBG808 tuned to D, A, D, F#, A, D and run through a handful of delay, harmony, and percussion effects—and donning a foot tambourine—Lenée demonstrated her award-winning dynamic hybrid fingerstyle/slapping/overhand tapping technique on the songs “Breath of Spring” and “Song for Michael Pukac,” the latter inspired by a painting by the Los Angeles artist of the same name.

Without a doubt, Ledward Kaapana is one of the guitar's greatest fingerstyle players. For over four decades this master of Hawaii's unique slack-key guitar style has delighted audiences with his music.

The fingerstylist performs a cover of the Allman Brothers' "Little Martha," as well as his own songs "Joyride to Tranquility" and "Rosewood Alley"

Just King performs two songs: The ballad “Sisters,” and one of his finest percussive instrumentals, “Taps.” A talented cat, for sure.

Andy Powers was an independent luthier, local musician, and avid surfer, living and playing around Southern California, when Bob Taylor enlisted him as kind of a right-hand man—head luthier of Taylor Guitars.

Fingerpicking and lap steel master Ed Gerhard has been wowing audiences for about four decades now, building a solid following around the U.S., Europe, and the Far East with his spellbinding solo instrumental performances and CDs, the most recent of which is called There and Gone.

After giving a dazzling performance of her song "View from Space" on the nylon string harp guitar, Muriel Anderson demonstrates her technique for creating other-worldly harmonics on the instrument.

A decade ago, Andy McKee was just another "guitar teacher from Topeka, Kansas." Today, he's considered one of the foremost fingerstyle guitarists in the world, with legions of devoted fans across the globe