While this is a fun little melody to learn and a cool tune...
I have an ulterior motive for showing it to you :)
We often talk about "playing on the porch"
So... some Q&A, a little bourbon, and some noodling happened on the Facebooks and the YouTubes yesterday afternoon. In case you missed it, here you go!
By the way, this was
This video is a little more of a project for you, if you're a beginning guitar player.
In order to be able to play with other people (really, in order to
I know that I'm usually the first person to say, "Don't bend with your first finger, that just doesn't feel good and it's hard."
That hasn't really changed, but there *are*
I often hear from students how they want to learn to embellish chords, so that's what we'll talk about in this video...
I was inspired by "The Weight," by The Band,
Since I can't go out, I've been doing some updates to gear and I thought it would be a good chance to show you what I'm running currently, and why.
Signal
For blues and blues/rock soloing, many times we take a simple approach of just using the minor pentatonic/blues scale for the whole thing...
And while that works over 12 bar blues
A lot of people might call these the "intervals" of the blues scale, but these aren't intervals to me because they don't involve a distance between 2 notes...
Instead, I think
EDIT: This was back in February, 2020. I've added the video from Norm's with Angela at the bottom.
So... I hope you'll indulge me a little because I had one of