Subject: Happy 4th of July 2019 🇺🇸
Happy 4th of July 2019 🇺🇸
July 4th, 2019 at 12:40 pm EDTHey Friend, It’s Independence Day here in the States. It got me thinking about the old “red, white,and blue” and famous guitars that have celebrated the American flag. The first one I remember was on that old TV show Hee Haw. Buck Owens, o ...
Ordinary Average Guy
June 21st, 2019 at 8:30 am EDTHey Friend, I battled with myself over sending this email out. On one hand I wanted to share something kinda cool from my Rock Roll guitar journey. But on the other, I thought, “So what?” I mean, just because it’s cool bit of history for m ...
I got chills, they’re multiplyin'...
May 17th, 2019 at 8:29 am EDTHey Friend, Music has no shortage of foreign, strange-sounding words to describe musical attributes and movement. You even have odd terminology for tone and technique. For example, there's portamento and glissando, staccato and legato, describing h ...
I shouldn't be so sensitive
April 24th, 2019 at 8:31 am EDTHey Friend, I can't help it. I AM a sensitive guy (despite my salty crust). I was starting to wonder why I wasn't hearing anything back from people who have been getting the lessons... ... and frankly, I was feeling a little... well... Isolated. ...
Exercise for “Aubrey” Intro
April 19th, 2019 at 8:27 am EDTHey Friend, I didn’t want too much of the month to get past without getting back to “Aubrey.” I have the introduction and beginning to the verse tabbed out and an MP3 created so you can follow along. Hopefully you’ve been practicing the p ...
Mine. Mine. MIne.
April 12th, 2019 at 8:32 am EDTHey Friend, A leopard CANNOT change his spots. And so it goes in the music industry. The big corporate music publishers and labels continue to bully the little guys, and even some artists get in on the game. Bullies can’t stand on their own… ...
First Lesson - “Aubrey” by Bread
April 9th, 2019 at 8:30 am EDTHey Friend, Well, some is better than none… right? I hoped to have a video done for you of the picking pattern we’ll use throughout “Aubrey” by Bread. But you know what they say about having “hope in one hand and $% + in the other…" Th ...
"Aubrey" Picking Pattern
April 5th, 2019 at 8:28 am EDTHey Friend, Okay, getting back to learning the song “Aubrey” by Bread. A couple weeks ago I started writing about the chords for the song, but I found myself quickly going down a chord theory rabbit hole… That can be a dark place, easy to b ...
Do you feel lucky, Punk?
March 17th, 2019 at 12:00 pm EDTHey Friend, Happy St. Patrick’s Day to ya! And be the luck of the Irish with ya... I hope you’re wearing green so you don’t get pinched! I can almost guarantee Dirty Harry Callahan wouldn’t be dealing out the same justice if he were called ...
The deafening sound of crickets...
March 7th, 2019 at 8:34 am EDTHey Friend, I was surprised that most of y’all in our little group didn’t seem that interested in learning the song “Aubrey” by Bread. I think two people replied back about it... Now I understand it’s sweet and kinda sappy, slow and a bit ...