Monthly Archives: June 2008

Kinks youTube Waterloo Sunset

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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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, … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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