February 16, 2018

“Tears In Heaven” first appeared in the 1991 film “Rush”, and was later included in Eric Clapton’s “Unplugged” collection.Clapton has admitted that part of the inspiration for the song came from the death of his son, Conor. After Conor’s death, Clapton rediscovered the acoustic guitar, and much of the writing he did in that period

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February 14, 2018

In this lesson, we are looking at the Jerry Garcia guitar solo from the acoustic version of “Dire Wolf” that appears on the 1981 live album, “Reckoning”. The 1981 live Grateful Dead album “Reckoning” features songs from the band’s Warfield Theatre run in the fall of 1980, and the opening track “Dire Wolf” is the subject

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February 13, 2018

In part 1 we talked about some of the advantages of using rhythm charts and took a look at a few basic charts for the songs “Black Magic Woman” and “I Shot The Sheriff”.As you recall, rhythm charts use a combination of standard musical notation as well as some vague (or less-defined) notation to create

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January 20, 2018

Rhythm charts are a quick and easy way to map out songs and can save a lot of time at rehearsal or when learning a bunch of songs quickly. They’re also a great way to archive all the songs you learn, so you don’t have to start from scratch when relearning a song.There are so

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December 12, 2017

Soloing strategies for playing over the V chord in bar 9 of a 12-bar blues.If you are a guitar player, then chances are you can’t count how many times you’ve been asked to jam over a 12-bar blues. Not only is it a ton of fun, but everyone knows a 12-bar blues and it’s a

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