The Cave is a catchy song by Mumford & Sons. It is done in Open D Tuning with a capo at the second fret. It features a few very easy chords but the right hand ...
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 ...
Percy’s Song is from Bob Dylan’s early days, recorded in 1963 for The Times They Are A-Changin’ album but not released until 1985 on Biograph. His fingerpicking arrangement is quite different from other versions released ...
By Stephen Rose Brad Wilson is a California-based blues guitarist currently touring up and down the West Coast in support of his new album “Blues Magic.” In concert, he is a charismatic performer who easily ...
Building A Mystery is a song from Sarah McLachlan’s 1997 album Surfacing. At this point she was using a few alternate tunings and this one is done with the top two strings tuned down one ...
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 ...
Pinball Wizard has been on our Recommend A Lesson list since the very early days at TG. It is now available as a Target/PPL lesson. It is from one of The Who’s breakthrough albums Tommy, ...
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 ...
Percy’s Song was written by Bob Dylan but first released by Fairport Convention on their album Unhalfbricking in 1969. Their arrangement featured beautiful harmony over a simple chord progression. This lesson starts with the melody ...