If I Were A Carpenter is a song by Tim Hardin that I used for many years as a beginning fingerpicking exercise. We use the first alternating bass pattern I teach people over the basic ...
Dance With Me has one of the greatest accompanying guitar parts of all time, in my opinion. It was a hit for Orleans in 1975, written by guitarist John Hall and his wife Johanna. It ...
Sandy can play almost complete versions of many songs but connecting the parts and measures can be a very difficult step. We have worked on a few songs where there are ‘stop signs’, places that ...
At the end of lesson more theory based, Fred and I went into ‘fun stuff’, and ended up on Secret Agent Man. After refreshing the chord progression we went through some tips on incorporating the ...
Home is a 2012 song performed by American Idol winner Phillip Phillips. The song was written by British musician Greg Holden and producer Drew Pearson and was picked to be the hit for the Idol ...
Secret Agent Man was the theme song from the 60s TV show starring Patrick McGoohan. The recording was done by Johnny Rivers and became one of his signature songs. It consists of a ‘James Bond’ ...
This week I finally got around to a couple of lessons on songs that had been on the Recommend A Lesson list since the very early days, Love Her Madly by The Doors and Folsom Prison Blues ...
Love Her Madly is a great strumming tune from The Doors’ 1971 album L.A. Woman. This lesson goes over the chords and strumming patterns, incorporating some of the bass lines, a breakdown of an arpeggio ...