Totally Guitars Totally Guitars Podcast Well, so much for putting out shorter updates. Today’s stretched out for a bit, although the last 4-5 minutes consisted of a piece I wrote about 10 years ago titled ...
Sandy came in after working on Here, There And Everywhere for the last week. We were working on creating a chord solo similar to the way it appeared on my album A Beatles Collection. She ...
Sandy had started working on an instrumental arrangement of this Beatles classic in a style similar to the way I played it on my album A Beatles Collection. We talked about the importance of clearly ...
This is a song by Dustin Lynch that Kevin thought would be fun and easy to play. There were a few unusual aspects, particularly with the timing, that made it much more challenging then he ...
This was a continuation of our lesson that started in Open G Tuning. We looked at Leo Kottke’s aarrangement of Jesu, Joy Of Man’s Desiring, which led into discussions (sometimes political and philosophical) about music ...
It seems that a long time ago Fred and I talked about the lead lick from Wicked Game by Chris Isaak. This week he came in after revisiting it and we polished up the timing ...
Lynn is a Target Member from Virginia who dropped in for a live lesson. We went over many topics and songs mostly relating to instrumental fingerpicking techniques and concepts. Topics included have a grasp of ...
This is an early Bob Dylan song that Ed had worked a bit with, although more in the way Dave van Ronk arranged it. We started with passing bass runs connecting chord changes before we ...
Kevin walked in for his lesson the morning I was working a Target Lesson on Lou Reed’s Walk On the Wild Side. He mentioned that he was a big fan and we decided to drop ...
This lesson started in Open G as Ed had been working on the Moloka’i Waltz. It evolved into a discussion about chord shapes and construction based on the tuning, as well as understanding melodic construction ...