This week I am having trouble pulling myself away from the Olympics, which could translate into a shortage of new stuff over the next few weeks, hopefully not. Our releases for our Target members consisted ...
This song was taken from one of Jerry Garcia and David Grisman’s albums, we talked about some lead ideas over this minor progression.
Ballad Of A Thin Man is one of Bob Dylan’s rambling commentaries on people asking too many questions, presumably to him. The original is more piano-based but the chords and riffs translate nicely to acoustic ...
In this lesson Fred mentioned that he had taken a look at some of the TG lessons on Pentatonic Scales and Patterns. He had a lot of good information but I realized there were some ...
Ten Thousand Words is from The Avett Brothers album I And Love And You (2009) and is an example of how a simple chord progression and a basic accompaniment can be the background for a ...
Continuing our explorations of Grateful Dead tunes, we went over The Music Never Stopped, including a brief look at common seventh chords.
This week's releases included Mykonos by the Fleet Foxes and Midnight Rider by the Allman Brothers, one of our top requests on the Recommend A Lesson list for quite some time now. We took a look at ...
Here we take a look at a couple of classic tunes and how Jerry Garcia got a driving boogie sound in one and a bluesy feel in another. We also ventured a bit into ninth ...
By: Stephen Rose John Sebastian is another example of a performer who had everything in place for a successful solo career, but was never able to recapture the commercial heights he attained with his first ...
Midnight Rider is an acoustic classic by Gregg Allman and Robert Payne, first released on The Allman Brothers second album Idlewild South in 1970. It has become one of their most popular, and most covered ...