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Totally Guitars Weekly Update December 20, 2024Category: TG Blogs
Ken Burns was on my mind at the top of today’s update, well his new documentary on Country Music specifically. I was not familiar with the term ‘Carter Scratch’ but had explained the technique hundreds ...
Modes, modes, modes… Great additions on the Forum this week about modes, which got me into doing a bit of an improv in D, playing through 4 different modes with D as the tonic. These ...
Between the Forum, live students, and last week’s open mic in Los Gatos a few tunes ran through my head that caught me by surprise this week. This led to a few stabs at instrumentals ...
A lot of messing around in the key of E Major in today’s News, starting with a blues improv based on the Forum post about Tony Joe White’s Polk Salad Annie, with only minor snubs ...
This week TG Central has become temporary headquarters for my partner and globetrotter, Matt Williams. He happened to come with a long list of songs that he thinks should be lessons at TG. I made ...
It’s been a few weeks since our last regular update and all the new lessons are listed below. I imagine most of you know I was in Europe for a couple weeks mixing a bit ...
We have been on the road for almost two weeks now, visiting a cousin in Kalamata, on a quiet coast in Greece, after seeing a bit of the hustle and bustle of Athens, and settled ...
Today I spent most of the Update just playing, starting with a bit of Misty inspired by Max’s lesson on it that was released this week. This also led into a short talk about barre ...
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve been able to get the Update rolling again, just a couple of minor setbacks after a short trip to Seattle but hopefully things are back on track. In ...
I Got A Feeling, as done by Pentangle in the 60’s, is an example of a jazzy 12-bar blues based on All Blues by Miles Davis. That was on my mind at the start of ...
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