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 ...
Jolene is by the Zac Brown Band (not to be confused with Dolly Parton’s song) and features his usual interesting chord progressions with some syncopated changes. I have included a chart with this lesson, making ...
In this segment we go over a couple of blues patterns, particularly a combination of two partial ones that can really sound good together.
Ed has always enjoyed working on Dylan tunes and the previous week we had looked at Fairport Convention's version of Percy's Song. After finding it in an old book, he needed a little guidance into ...
This was the start of our third lesson. We were heading into some fingerpicking and I decided to talk a bit about right hand position and some changes that Beaker should consider to make more ...
Our second lesson ended with this look at Jerry Garcia’s arrangement of Peggy-O. It led to a discussion about walking, or connecting bass notes between chords, including a detour into a look at Mr. Bojangles ...
This song was taken from one of Jerry Garcia and David Grisman’s albums, we talked about some lead ideas over this minor progression.