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Lightnin' Hopkins Meets Bobby Timmons Sep 13, 2017

I guess everyone in the immediate vicinity of Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins referred to Mr. Hopkins as "Lightnin'," but just thinking about that got to...

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How To Practice With A Metronome practicing Sep 06, 2017

Use the metronome to callibrate time, and learn to hear the click on beats 2 and 4.

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Gypsy Jazz Chords For Fingerstyle Blues favorite fingerstyle fingerstyle improvisation Aug 23, 2017

Gypsy Jazz And String (Tie) Theory

As a steel guitar player in the early 1990s, I went through a brief but unfortunate bolo tie phase, one in which...

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Freddie Green Voicings For Blues In E chord substitutions chord voicings fingerstyle blues freddie green Aug 02, 2017
Surfing Makes You Hungry
 
I had a surfing lesson today. It was my first one ever, and I have to say, this teacher, Isaac, was really good. We...
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