When first setting foot inside John DeFoore’s studio, she might have been a bit nervous, even with that little chip on her shoulder. But she, better than anyone else, knew where she was going; it was a matter of not quite having everything necessary to get there.
To start off this short study of the use of dropped D tuning in acoustic blues guitar picking, I play a short interpretation of Blind Willie McTell’s.
I start this session with a short excerpt of a blues played in A in the style of Robert Johnson. This song is played using a monotonic bass technique and the sound is muted heavily with the palm of the picking hand after each strike.
The 50 Greatest Guitar Book, from guitarist, writer and educator, Shawn Persinger (a.k.a. Prester John) is both an indispensable reference and one of the finest tutorial books ever penned.
The newbie acoustic blues guitarist is faced with several choices when deciding to learn how to pick the blues in the old style.
As the first in a series of guitar instructional videos I’ll be presenting at Guitar International, I thought I’d start out with a video with about the classic Big Bill Broonzy song ‘Hey Hey’, in which I attempt to copy that swinging Chicago acoustic blues sound that he developed.
The use of pre-composed licks as an essential step in learning to play jazz, and especially jazz guitar, seems to be a foregone conclusion.
There’s no denying that the internet has changed the music industry, and indeed the way that musicians initiate communication with their audiences.
G-Men productions has announced the pending release of a new guitar app that will be sure to have the music community talking: The Johnny Winter App.
From the official music publisher of thousands of popular artists, songwriters, and composers, new music collections from Led Zeppelin – the blues-inspired rock band that significantly impacted rock music forever – are now available for guitar and piano. These include a guitar TAB book for the band’s 2007 reunion concert film Celebration Day, Platinum Album Editions in authentic guitar TAB for Physical Graffiti and Presence, and a piano sheet music anthology.
