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Totally Guitars Weekly Update December 20, 2024Tag: totallyguitars
A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall is one of Bob Dylan’s earliest examples of some of his interesting chord shapes and rambling lyrics. The song first appeared on his second album, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan and ...
Mr. Soul is a Neil Young song that has gone through many incarnations, not unusual for his songs. It started out as a rockin’ hit for The Buffalo Springfield in 1968 and later appeared as ...
More Than A Feeling is the first hit from Boston, released in 1976 on their debut album. It features a memorable guitar arpeggio opening then a driving chorus with syncopated strumming. This lesson goes over ...
I Walk The Line is one of Johnny Cash’s earliest hits and a great example of a simple chord progression and strumming pattern expanding into a very interesting example of moving through different keys (modulating). ...
Forever Young is from Bob Dylan’s 1974 album Planet Waves, recorded with The Band. The album featured two versions of the song, one in a quiet ballad style, the second with a funkier sound, more ...
The Cave is a catchy song by Mumford & Sons. It is done in Open D Tuning with a capo at the second fret. It features a few very easy chords but the right hand ...
Building A Mystery is a song from Sarah McLachlan’s 1997 album Surfacing. At this point she was using a few alternate tunings and this one is done with the top two strings tuned down one ...
Pinball Wizard has been on our Recommend A Lesson list since the very early days at TG. It is now available as a Target/PPL lesson. It is from one of The Who’s breakthrough albums Tommy, ...
Percy’s Song was written by Bob Dylan but first released by Fairport Convention on their album Unhalfbricking in 1969. Their arrangement featured beautiful harmony over a simple chord progression. This lesson starts with the melody ...
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 ...
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