Here is another episode of our ‘Transitions’ series where Sandy needed to polish spots in Windy & Warm. We worked on isolating the ‘stop signs’, and repeating the two measures involved until they flowed smoothly.
Big Yellow Taxi is from Joni Mitchell’s third album, Ladies Of The Canyon and is a lot of fun to play. It is done in Open D Tuning (D A D F# A D) using ...
First off this week I want to send our best wishes out to all those affected by the weather on the East Coast. I was glad to see posts from some of our members there being relatively ...
Sweet Jane is a song long associated with Lou Reed, originally appearing on The Velvet Underground’s 1970 album Loaded. This lesson takes the ‘Work It Out’ approach and encourages you to listen to the first ...
If I Were A Carpenter is a song by Tim Hardin that I used for many years as a beginning fingerpicking exercise. We use the first alternating bass pattern I teach people over the basic ...
Dance With Me has one of the greatest accompanying guitar parts of all time, in my opinion. It was a hit for Orleans in 1975, written by guitarist John Hall and his wife Johanna. It ...
Sandy can play almost complete versions of many songs but connecting the parts and measures can be a very difficult step. We have worked on a few songs where there are ‘stop signs’, places that ...
At the end of lesson more theory based, Fred and I went into ‘fun stuff’, and ended up on Secret Agent Man. After refreshing the chord progression we went through some tips on incorporating the ...
Home is a 2012 song performed by American Idol winner Phillip Phillips. The song was written by British musician Greg Holden and producer Drew Pearson and was picked to be the hit for the Idol ...