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Totally Guitars Weekly Update December 20, 2024Tag: totally guitars
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 ...
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 week there were some interesting questions bantering about on the Forum. Folks asked about things like the numbering system and starting points for Pentatonic patterns, as well as ways to identify key changes. I took a bit ...
Pinball Wizard has been on our Recommend A Lesson list since the very early days at TG. It is now available as a Target/PPL lesson. It is from one of The Who’s breakthrough albums Tommy, ...
Our second lesson ended with this look at Jerry Garcia’s arrangement of Peggy-O. It led to a discussion about walking, or connecting bass notes between chords, including a detour into a look at Mr. Bojangles ...
Percy’s Song was written by Bob Dylan but first released by Fairport Convention on their album Unhalfbricking in 1969. Their arrangement featured beautiful harmony over a simple chord progression. This lesson starts with the melody ...
This song was taken from one of Jerry Garcia and David Grisman’s albums, we talked about some lead ideas over this minor progression.
Ballad Of A Thin Man is one of Bob Dylan’s rambling commentaries on people asking too many questions, presumably to him. The original is more piano-based but the chords and riffs translate nicely to acoustic ...
In this lesson Fred mentioned that he had taken a look at some of the TG lessons on Pentatonic Scales and Patterns. He had a lot of good information but I realized there were some ...
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