This week included a wide range of lessons for our Target members. It started with a Fly On The Wall look at Blues Patterns, then a lesson on The Cave by Mumford & Sons. The song is ...
Jolene is by the Zac Brown Band (not to be confused with Dolly Parton’s song) and features his usual interesting chord progressions with some syncopated changes. I have included a chart with this lesson, making ...
Forever Young is from Bob Dylan’s 1974 album Planet Waves, recorded with The Band. The album featured two versions of the song, one in a quiet ballad style, the second with a funkier sound, more ...
The Cave is a catchy song by Mumford & Sons. It is done in Open D Tuning with a capo at the second fret. It features a few very easy chords but the right hand ...
In this segment we go over a couple of blues patterns, particularly a combination of two partial ones that can really sound good together.
This week's Target releases included Building A Mystery by Sarah McLachlan and Bob Dylan's original version of Percy's Song. We had a Fly On The Wall looking at Percy's Song as well, along with one on proper right ...
Ed has always enjoyed working on Dylan tunes and the previous week we had looked at Fairport Convention's version of Percy's Song. After finding it in an old book, he needed a little guidance into ...
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 ...
Building A Mystery is a song from Sarah McLachlan’s 1997 album Surfacing. At this point she was using a few alternate tunings and this one is done with the top two strings tuned down one ...
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 ...