If I Were A Carpenter is a song by Tim Hardin that I used for many years as a beginning fingerpicking exercise. We use the first alternating bass pattern I teach people over the basic ...
Sandy can play almost complete versions of many songs but connecting the parts and measures can be a very difficult step. We have worked on a few songs where there are ‘stop signs’, places that ...
At the end of lesson more theory based, Fred and I went into ‘fun stuff’, and ended up on Secret Agent Man. After refreshing the chord progression we went through some tips on incorporating the ...
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.