Subject: Moving bass notes...
Moving bass notes...
May 27th, 2018 at 8:32 am EDTHey Friend, Sorry, I ran out of time Friday as I was working on creating the exercise you’re getting today. It’s the dang j.o.b. - that thing is a total killjoy, I tell ya! I would much rather have stayed home and worked on this exercise for yo ...
Here’s a new pattern to try...
May 23rd, 2018 at 8:31 am EDTHey Friend, Another quick one today… I’ve put together another simple Travis picking pattern for you to try out. This will force your muscle memory to break from the first pattern you learned last week. You may find this pattern easier than th ...
Would you like some chords with that?
May 20th, 2018 at 8:33 am EDTLet’s try a simple pattern first, Friend ...
May 18th, 2018 at 8:36 am EDTHey Friend, Today, we’ll look at one of the simplest Travis picking patterns you can learn. This is the first pattern I learned way back in the Stone Ages (I turned 53 today…). As I mentioned last time, your thumb is in charge of the three lowe ...
Intro to Travis Picking
May 16th, 2018 at 7:39 am EDTHey Friend, There are many different fingerstyle techniques - way more than we’ll get into here. If you’re so inclined, you can read about the various styles in this Wikipedia article. To get you started with some basic fingerstyle patterns, w ...
Some fingerstyle players…
May 13th, 2018 at 8:49 am EDTHey Friend, Happy Mother’s Day! Hope you're enjoying your Sunday so far… Sorry for missing Friday’s message. My oldest daughter is now in Florence, Italy, and we got a panicked text from her telling us she had forgotten her ATM card. So I s ...
King Tut's curse...
May 9th, 2018 at 8:34 am EDTNo broom necessary for this guitar technique...
May 6th, 2018 at 11:13 am EDTHey Friend, Hope you had a festive Cinco de Mayo yesterday… the Dos Equis and tequila was flowing here at the Vance household, and all was good! There are a couple more picking patterns I’d like to talk about. If you recall, we’ve talked abou ...
Get CAGED for some interesting chord voicings...
May 4th, 2018 at 8:31 am EDTHey Friend, Oh Friday, how I’ve missed you… The anticipation of the weekend always gets me a little giddy! If you’ve been around me for any length of time, you know my main area of interest is chords, the harmonic aspect of playing guitar. ...
Expand your musical mind...
May 2nd, 2018 at 8:35 am EDTHey Friend, First off, sorry about Sunday... I took the day off. It was the wife’s birthday, so instead of sitting down and writing a message to you, I cooked breakfast. Since my wife ALWAYS tells me not to get her anything (and I never listen ...