How To Practice With A Metronome
Sep 06, 2017
Use the metronome to callibrate time, and learn to hear the click on beats 2 and 4.
Gypsy Jazz Chords For Fingerstyle Blues
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 I found confirmation of the notion "like attracts like." Which is to say, once the news is out...
Blues Guitar Licks In A Minor
Jul 19, 2017
St. Hesitation Infirmary Blues
I've been in New England for the last week and a half, ticking off the boxes one by one: Beach day with 58 degree water, sandcastles and rock climbing? Check. Road trip through three states in under three hours?...
Mississippi Blues In E
Jul 05, 2017
The summer fingerstyle theme continues this week with a discussion of how to adapt the signature A9 lick from William Brown's 1940s classic "Mississippi Blues #2" to the key of – where else? – E.
Every time I reference that tune I...
