Ho Hey was the first single from The Lumineers, a folksy, roots rock group based in Denver. This infectious song uses basic chords in the key of C with some syncopated strumming patterns and opens ...
Sandy had been working on Oh Susannah with the jazzy chords that James Taylor used in his arrangement from the Sweet Baby James album. This led us into a discussion about chord components (1-3-5) and ...
Today's News started with a bit of sight reading through Mauro Giuiiani's 120 Right Hand Studies, only a couple, before heading into the summary of this week's new lessons/content. The Target songs involved two great female vocalists, Annie ...
Kalynda is a beautiful song from the progressive band Renaissance. It is from one of their later albums, Azure d’Or and was written by bass player Jon Camp. The main guitar accompaniment was done using ...
Woodstock is Joni Mitchell’s song about the 1969 Festival that has been covered by many artists. This lesson goes into Eva Cassidy’s arrangement using a simple arpeggio style for solo guitar, the way it appeared ...
This week's update turned into one of my longer ones, unintentionally. It started with a recap of our new Target releases, which included a rambling Fly On The Wall lesson with Ed that got more into music appreciation, ...
You Can Close Your Eyes is an early James Taylor song, released in 1971 on his album Mud Slide Slim And The Blue Horizon. James’ picking style is fairly free form and this lesson goes ...
Merry Solstice to everyone. Today's News started with a long lost (almost) tune of mine called Winter Lights, a piece written in about 1985 under a twinkling Christmas tree. This reminded me of the first ...