The Kinks were very famous in the sixties and seventies, often people only think of the song Lola, love it or hate it. There was a song that I heard in the late sixties that would always make me turn up the radio. The main rhythm part is on acoustic guitar, but there are some [...]
Entries from June 2008
June 29, 2008
Jerry Reed youTube acoustic guitar
Jerry Reed is a singer guitarist and songwriter….and even an actor. He had hits with a song called Guitar Man, a song that Elvis Presley covered, as well as receiving a Grammy, recording a hit called Amos Moses. He has apperaed with the legend Chet Atkins and numerous others. He’s a sensational country guitarist, his [...]
June 27, 2008
Acoustic Blues Mance Lipscomb youTube
Most guitar players have heard of Lighning Hopkins, Muddy Waters, B B King, Robert Johnson but one legendary player that may have slipped past you is Mance Lipscomb. This tune is the Classic Baby Please Don’t Go. If you’d like to see Lightning Hopkins doing classic acoustic blues guitar go to: http://the-guitarplayer.com/2008/06/27/lightning-hopkins-youtube-blues-guitar/
June 25, 2008
Jack Johnson Youtube acoustic guitarist
This youtube video of Jack Johnson is so refreshing to hear, he plays just what’s necessary, simple acoustic rhythm guitar that holds the songs together. Uncomplicated, melodic, a great lesson for us all when we take it all too seriously and need to come to basics of why we play music. The tune is called [...]
June 20, 2008
Jose Gonzalez YoutUbe
Jose Gonzalez I don’t usually include many nylon stringers in my posts, but this is worth hearing if you haven’t heard it. It is Jose Gonzalez the Swedish born musician of Argentian descent. The song is called Heartbeats. He’s capoed up at fret one, it’s extremely beautiful, played perfectly and is the vocal line works [...]
June 18, 2008
Kaki King Youtube
I first became aware of the guitar player Kaki King when I read a Frets magazine a couple of years back, it had an article about her, in it they said she was one of the most interesting guitarists since Michael Hedges, that was enough for me to take notice. Her technique is worth watching, [...]
June 15, 2008
Country Guitar Scales for Acoustic Guitar
Country Guitar Scales are worth knowing, they’ll save you hours of messing around. Really they are just Minor Blues Scales starting on a different note. I’ve done them in basic TAB and music notation for guitar. Most guitar players want shortcuts, from my experience, these scales are the greatest shortcut for improvisation and soloing that [...]
June 12, 2008
John Mayer youTube on Acoustic Guitar
John Mayer is very young as a guitar player but he has already in a short period of time managed to mark his mark as a guitar player. His right hand technique is a little unusual, he plays a bit like a slap bass player at times. He seems to have taken the picking hand [...]
June 10, 2008
Poco youTube with Timothy B Schmit
Poco – Rose of Cimarron with Eagles bass player Poco was a band that had some brilliant musicians over the years. If you look closely at the bass player in this youtube video you’ll notice it’s none other than the Eagles bass player Timothy B Schmit, not only a bass player but has always sung [...]
June 9, 2008
Rockabilly Blues Riff Part 3 of 3
I’ve writen this three part Rockabilly Blues Riff because as a long term musician/ teacher and student of the guitar, I know it’s easier to be focused on developing our skills when have some short term outcomes to reach. If we work on just one thing it’s easy to forget it fast, but when we have [...]
June 6, 2008
Ani diFranco youtube 4 string
You may not be familiar with ani diFranco. This youTube video is of Ani plaing a beautiful looking (to me) four string guitar, used to be called tipples. I first became aware of Ani deFranco’s music when she toured here, and when I saw a video of here doing ‘i’m not angry anymore’, I was [...]
June 6, 2008
David Crosby Graham Nash youtube – Guinnevere
The David Crosby Guinnevere youtube video is a follow up to my previous post about David’s song Thousand Roads which I wrote quite some time ago. This one is with Graham Nash former member of the Hollies. As stated in that post I like David Crosby’s And here’s a link to the other post of [...]
June 3, 2008
Loggins and Messina youTube House at Pooh Corner
Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina were one of a number of successful duets around in the early seventies. I’m thinking seals and Crofts, Batdorf and Rodney, England Dan and John Ford Coley. Loggins and Messina had some excellent albums in their day such as Full Sail, Sittin In, Motherlode. I was very interested to find [...]
June 1, 2008
Rockabilly Blues for Guitar – Part 2 of 3
Rockabilly Blues for Guitar is the second of my three part TAB and Music Notation design to get the fingers going and get you playing a few riffs that you would never have played. They will sound familiar because I’ve written them around standard chord patterns and riffs. you’ll notice a few twists. A great [...]
