Ten Thousand Words is from The Avett Brothers album I And Love And You (2009) and is an example of how a simple chord progression and a basic accompaniment can be the background for a ...
Continuing our explorations of Grateful Dead tunes, we went over The Music Never Stopped, including a brief look at common seventh chords.
Here we take a look at a couple of classic tunes and how Jerry Garcia got a driving boogie sound in one and a bluesy feel in another. We also ventured a bit into ninth ...
Midnight Rider is an acoustic classic by Gregg Allman and Robert Payne, first released on The Allman Brothers second album Idlewild South in 1970. It has become one of their most popular, and most covered ...
Mykonos is a catchy song from Fleet Foxes, a band from the Seattle area. Most of their songs have compelling lyrics and are done with great vocal harmonies. This song opens with a fingerpicked guitar ...
Rebecca mentioned that she was interested in learning I Won’t Give Up by Jason Mraz. We started out talking about Dropped D Tuning, which she was not familiar with, then looked at the tab for ...
This week I figured it was time for me to get back to playing more. The News starts off with a piece called Idylwild. This was written as part of a series of new songs ...
This was the beginning of Beaker's second lesson here and we started with a quick recap of the previous day's info. It started with a review of It's All Over Now Baby Blue, particularly related ...
Jack Straw is a Bob Weir/Robert Hunter composition that has been part of hundreds of Grateful Dead concerts since it was written in 1971. I recommend listening to it on their album Hundred Year Hall ...
Mood For A Day is a retro/neo/quasi-classical piece by Steve Howe which first appeared on Yes's landmark album Fragile. It includes many techniques that are very challenging- flamenco strumming, rapid scales and variations, trill-like hammer-ons ...