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, ...
People Are Strange is from The Doors’ album Strange Days and features a catchy little arpeggio picking over a very simple chord progression. The keyboards of Ray Manzarek are really what gave this song its ...
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 ...
Leader Of Men is a Nickelback song from their 2000 album The State. It is done in Dropped D Tuning and really just uses three power chords. This lesson goes into pounding steady eighth notes, ...
Ring Of Fire is one of Johnny Cash’s biggest hits, originally released in 1963. The song is credited to his soon-to-be wife June Carter but the real origins appear to be a bit sketchy, particularly ...
Keith Holland from Keith Holland Guitars and The Guitar Hospital talks about things to think about when purchasing a custom guitar. And Keith really knows -- over the years he's built almost 1200 guitars. There ...
Far Away is one of Nickelback’s tunes done in Dropped D, like many of their songs, but not played in the key of D. It is done 1/2 step low on their album All The ...