April 28, 2023

Peter Frampton was the subject of the week around here. Thanks to a request on the Forum last week, I realized we had managed to neglect his songs for our first 14 years. That was remedied with a lesson on Baby I Love Your Way, with a couple more on side burners for the near future.

We also added another first time, long neglected artist with Nesh’s lesson on Runaway by Del Shannon. I hope everybody takes the time to check those out.

As mentioned recently, I have been pouring through archives of our sister sites, Totally Electric Guitars, Totally Keyboards and Totally Vocals. Each week I plan to make more of those lessons available here at Totally Guitars. The most recent of those was Max Rich’s Blues Basics. This set is almost 2 hours of an introduction to 12-bar blues, pentatonic scales, blue notes, and even includes some backing tracks for you to play along with Clapton, B.B. King and Chuck Berry.

I forgot to mention that we had a run in with publishers of Eagles songs this week, and as a result decided to make the lesson on Hotel California free to all for the time being. This gives everybody who has not seen any of our highly detailed lessons a chance to see one.

Music this week started with some improvising around Frampton tunes, and ended with a little D Minor noodling. This was inspired by the recent Forum post on Portuguese guitar player Diogo Clemente. There was some great playing there and beautiful singing.

That is all for April,

Neil