Ed came in asking about Kathy’s Song by Paul Simon. We have played many other songs with similar progressions and fingerpicking patterns but he wanted to explore some of the specific embellishments that Paul adds ...
Our exploration of songs by Bob Dylan included a little ear-training lesson on Girl From The North Country, a song he recorded with Johnny Cash on his Nashville Skyline album. It is a basic 3-chord ...
Ed is a big Bob Dylan fan and we have spent much time on many of his songs. In this short lesson we talked about the differences between playing this in Dropped D Tuning versus ...
This was the end of the third lesson Beaker took and we reviewed some of the theory that makes blues sound like blues.
The second main song on Beaker’s to-do list was Kelly Joe Phelps’ version of this almost generic blues tune. It is a bunch of fingerpicking licks in the key of G, much like the TG ...