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 ...
Secret Agent Man was the theme song from the 60s TV show starring Patrick McGoohan. The recording was done by Johnny Rivers and became one of his signature songs. It consists of a ‘James Bond’ ...
This week I finally got around to a couple of lessons on songs that had been on the Recommend A Lesson list since the very early days, Love Her Madly by The Doors and Folsom Prison Blues ...
Love Her Madly is a great strumming tune from The Doors’ 1971 album L.A. Woman. This lesson goes over the chords and strumming patterns, incorporating some of the bass lines, a breakdown of an arpeggio ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...