Guitar skills: Generally an acoustic guitar style, contemporary folk was huge in the late '60s and '70s and has broadened out ever since, with modern players such as Ed Sheeran and Jake Bugg ...

Generally with folk you’ll be playing fingerstyle, but standard strumming is commonplace too and sounds great with open-string drone chords. Altered tunings feature heavily and will help bust you out ...

John Pearse, who has died aged 69, was responsible for teaching a generation of British folk and blues enthusiasts how to play the guitar. He scripted and presented a highly successful series for BBC2 ...