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 ...
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 ...
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 ...