July 12, 2024 This week we rolled out some great new lesson packs. These are sets of 5-6 songs by a classic band. The new artist packs featured The Alan Parsons Project and REO Speedwagon, ...
June 28, 2024 What do George Harrison, Michel Legrand, Leon Russell, Rodgers & Hart, and even yours truly, have in common with Randy California and Jimmy Page? The answer may be obvious when you hear ...
Jim had been thinking about songs that the TG audience might find particularly interesting and Anna Mae popped into his head. It is a fingerpicking delight, maybe worthy of a lesson here someday.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
November 4, 2011 This week at TotallyGuitars we added a couple of pretty recent songs to the Target Program, along with a great Beginning Fingerpicking Course. We have gotten quite a few requests for a step-bys-step approach to fingerpicking ...