Mr. Soul is a Neil Young song that has gone through many incarnations, not unusual for his songs. It started out as a rockin’ hit for The Buffalo Springfield in 1968 and later appeared as ...
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More Than A Feeling is the first hit from Boston, released in 1976 on their debut album. It features a memorable guitar arpeggio opening then a driving chorus with syncopated strumming. This lesson goes over ...
I Walk The Line is one of Johnny Cash’s earliest hits and a great example of a simple chord progression and strumming pattern expanding into a very interesting example of moving through different keys (modulating). ...
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.