In this installment, Lindsey Buckingjham offers tips in Guitar Player on getting the most out of your thumb, and Ron Jackson in Acoustic Guitar shows how to draw harmonies from harmonic and melodic minor scales.

Subscribers this month get transcriptions of the following:

Total Guitar

Eric Clapton’s “Lay Down Sally”

Nirvana’s “Lithium”

Acoustic Guitar

Robbie Basho’s “Great Depression Blues”

Manuel Barrueco’s “Estrellita”