That’ll Never Happen No More is a ragtime tune from the 1920s, written by Blind Blake but performed by many of the next generation’s masters. Dave Van Ronk’s and Jorma Kaukonen’s arrangements are incorporated into ...
Take It To The Limit is a pretty basic strumming song in 3/4 time. Written by Randy Meisner, Glenn Frey, and Don Henley, it was released on The Eagles’ 1975 album One Of These Nights. ...
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 ...
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 ...