Totally Guitars – Online Lessons Totally Guitars Podcast Today we had a little Mr. Bojangles improv at the top and a little blues at the bottom. In between I talked the new stuff: James Blunt, ...
This week we stepped back into the ragtime blues world with Blind Blake, revisited the perennial favorite Eagles, reviewed students playing The Beatles and 'The' Floyd, heard a young father's quick composition for his darling daughter, released a ...
Folsom Prison Blues is one of Johnny Cash’s most recognized songs. It follows a simple 12-bar blues progression with a standard country-style strumming pattern. Most of the difficulty here is hitting the bass notes accurately ...
This week we had a few Target Lessons, some Student Reviews, a Fly On The Wall lesson, a continuation of the Music Gear Review on the Pre- Sonus StudioOne, and a very insightful essay from Steve Rose ...
Ghost Riders In The Sky is a cowboy classic from the 1940s. It has been done by innumerable artists over the years, ranging from the original done by Burl Ives to surf, country, pop, trance, ...
Our exploration of songs by Bob Dylan included a little ear-training lesson on Girl From The North Country, a song he recorded with Johnny Cash on his Nashville Skyline album. It is a basic 3-chord ...
Hurt is a song originally done by Trent Reznor and his project ‘band’ Nine Inch Nails and it was first released in 1994 on the album The Downward Spiral. This lesson looks at the way ...
This week there were some interesting questions on the TG Forum about outlining chords and lead playing with triads. I added a bit of info to the discussion in this week's News, although it might create more confusion ...
Ring Of Fire is one of Johnny Cash’s biggest hits, originally released in 1963. The song is credited to his soon-to-be wife June Carter but the real origins appear to be a bit sketchy, particularly ...