Heart Bonus 6-Pack

Lessons

• Lesson 1: Alone - Heart - Guitar Lesson

  ‘The Road Home’ is a live album of a concert by the rock band Heart, released in 1995. It was produced by John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin) and contains acoustic versions of many of Heart’s hits. It included the band’s greatest hit and power ballad Alone.
  
  This lesson is based on that particular acoustic version of Alone, as primarily performed by Howard Leese, who has been with Heart the longest, besides the Wilson sisters.
  
  The arrangement features both fingerpicking as well as strumming. There are relatively many chords, including different chord shapes, inversions, and a few barre chords.

• Lesson 2: These Dreams - Heart - Guitar Lesson

  These Dreams is a song by the American rock band Heart. It was released as the third single in 1986 from their 1985 self-titled album and became a major hit. It was the first Heart single on which Nancy performed the lead vocals instead of her sister Ann.
  
  This lesson is mostly based on a version as performed on the dvd ‘The Road Home’ and how Nancy plays it in her instructional dvd.
  
  It takes a look at the chords in the key of F#m, the progression, and shows some insight into Nancy’s rhythm guitar playing.
  
  Anyone trying to tackle this song should be fairly comfortable flatpicking and strumming in general.

• Lesson 3: Dreamboat Annie - Guitar Lesson

  Dreamboat Annie is the title song from Heart’s first album, released in 1976. The song is really 3 different takes on a theme and this lesson looks mainly at the first two. It includes normal chords in the key of C but is played with very rapid Travis Style fingerpicking patterns. This is another great song that showcases the talents of Ann and Nancy Wilson.

• Lesson 4: Dog And Butterfly - Guitar Lesson

  Dog And Butterfly is a great acoustic tune and the title song from Heart’s third album, released in 1978. Nancy Wilson generally plays it on a 12-string but it sounds fine on a 6 as well. It features some colorful, extended chords and a combination of cross picking and alternating picking. It is the kind of song that really requires some exploration and experimentation as far as the accompaniment goes to get the best sound.

• Lesson 5: Crazy On You - Guitar Lesson

  Crazy On You was the hit that put the Wilson sisters on the rock map when it was released on Heart’s 1976 album Dreamboat Annie. The opening acoustic guitar solo (Silver Wheels), the energetic strumming that sets the background for the killer riff, and Ann’s spine-tingling vocals, were just a few of the elements that combined to make this one of the greatest rock songs of all time. In this lesson we look mostly at the rhythm guitar parts, with the addition of a couple of tricky lead fills, courtesy of Roger Fisher

• Lesson 6: Silver Wheels (Intro to Crazy On You)

  Silver Wheels is Nancy Wilson’s memorable intro to Heart’s Crazy On You. This lesson covers the way she did it on their first album, Dreamboat Annie in 1976. Over the years the piece has been used and altered in many ways, always including a lot of improvisation. The song is broken down into segments of just a couple measures at a time and includes a Split-Screen Slo-Mo Play Along at the end.

• Lesson 7: Crazy On You - Electric Guitar Lesson

  Crazy On You is a fast paced single from Heart's 1976 album "Dreamboat Annie". This is actually a relatively complicated song since it's really quick and has a lot of rhythmic passages with string skipping, so your right hand will have to be accurate. If you're comfortable with hybrid picking, it should make this one a little easier to get through, but either way this one will provide a good challenge for any level guitar player. There's an extensive introduction that has a different sound than the rest of the song which really showcases their musicality. There's an acoustic style of strumming over large A minor and F chords that makes a nice base for the single note guitar melody on top. The licks used in this song make good use of rhythmic phrasing and pull-offs to create a cyclical feeling in the phrase to keep things moving forward.