Ho Hey was the first single from The Lumineers, a folksy, roots rock group based in Denver. This infectious song uses basic chords in the key of C with some syncopated strumming patterns and opens ...
Sandy had been working on Oh Susannah with the jazzy chords that James Taylor used in his arrangement from the Sweet Baby James album. This led us into a discussion about chord components (1-3-5) and ...
Kalynda is a beautiful song from the progressive band Renaissance. It is from one of their later albums, Azure d’Or and was written by bass player Jon Camp. The main guitar accompaniment was done using ...
Woodstock is Joni Mitchell’s song about the 1969 Festival that has been covered by many artists. This lesson goes into Eva Cassidy’s arrangement using a simple arpeggio style for solo guitar, the way it appeared ...
You Can Close Your Eyes is an early James Taylor song, released in 1971 on his album Mud Slide Slim And The Blue Horizon. James’ picking style is fairly free form and this lesson goes ...
River is a Joni Mitchell song from her 1971 album Blue, and has been covered by numerous artists, particularly on their Christmas albums. Joni plays it on piano and this lesson presents a way to ...