Hotel California Lead Licks. Introduction Lick 1 Lick 2 Lick 3 Lick 4 Everyone talks about, and in fact teaches or learns, the intro or the lead solo to Hotel California, which…
Horse With No Name. Easy guitar lesson. Have you ever wanted to play a classic song that has some unusual chords that are easy to play? Well try Horse With No Name…
Earl Slick Interview Earl Slick: Veteran Guitarist Featured On New Bowie Single & Album Like many parts of the United States, New York City has its own dialectic peculiarities. One of them is…
The Hendrix Chord. E7#9 I can’t believe we are already 4 issues to the good, and, therefore, by definition, discussing our 4th chord of the month. The E-seventh-sharp-nine-chord –…
Dougie Maclean Caledonia This month I got in touch with one of the biggest names in Scottish folk music, Dougie Maclean, OBE. Below is my arrangement of one of Dougie’s best-known pieces, Caledonia. Many…
BB King Blues Licks Blues Backing Hi all and welcome to my first bag of blues licks! I’d like to tentatively call this ‘Blues for the Common Man’ because, after all, blues…
E Minor Pentatonic improvisation. Introduction Practice Riff 1 Riff 2 Riff 3 What Have We Achieved So Far? The first improvisation session covered the E minor pentatonic scale in the open…
Best Beginner Electric Guitars Video review of the best beginner electric guitars. We look at the top brands for beginners to see what they offer and how they differ.
Waltzing Matilda Fingerstyle Lesson This week’s lesson features my arrangement of the traditional Australian folk tune waltzing Matilda. This simple but effective arrangement sounds like theres more going on than there actually is, but…
Sweet Home Chicago. Introduction Teach Written by Robert Johnson and released in August 1937, this song has been recorded by countless artists. The intro to the song has also had many…
Sugar Mama by Nine Below Zero. Introduction Teaching Video Who recorded it? Nine Below Zero are an English Blues band who were at their height in popularity in the early 1980s…
Robert Cray Phone Booth Guitar Riff. Introduction Phone Booth Guitar Riff. Teaching Video Phone Booth Guitar Riff. Backing Track Now this isn’t so much of a riff, as it is…
