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, ...
Our exploration of songs by Bob Dylan included a little ear-training lesson on Girl From The North Country, a song he recorded with Johnny Cash on his Nashville Skyline album. It is a basic 3-chord ...
This week we brought out two new artist 10-packs, one with songs by Bob Dylan and Volume 2 of Neil Young songs, a collection of some of his Buffalo Springfield era songs. We had Student Reviews that included ...
Ed is a big Bob Dylan fan and we have spent much time on many of his songs. In this short lesson we talked about the differences between playing this in Dropped D Tuning versus ...
Hurt is a song originally done by Trent Reznor and his project ‘band’ Nine Inch Nails and it was first released in 1994 on the album The Downward Spiral. This lesson looks at the way ...
Bus Stop was the Hollies’ 1966 hit that really put them on the musical map in the U.S. It was written by Graham Gouldman, who penned many hits for British bands before making it on ...