Getting Started With Improvisation
Published: Fri, 02/02/24
One day, when we were all kind of sick of hearing me talk about the modes again, Billy interrupted to ask "Dave man, how did you get so good, anyway?"…
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Slide Workshop Replay
Published: Wed, 01/31/24
Which means if you missed the live stream, you can still register to get the same year-long access to a complete replay of the two-hour class. You'll…
Slide Foundations – Last Call
Published: Sat, 01/27/24
What the heck Let's talk about The bottleneck I've had a few That were legit We took a bottle Emptied it Set water boiling On the range And while it…
Get A Great Sound, Know How To Use It
Published: Fri, 01/26/24
In tomorrow's Slide Foundations workshop, we'll look at everything from how to hold the slide, angle it, and damp the strings behind it, to using the…
Hello Youtube, Goodbye Mudslide
Published: Fri, 01/26/24
The one we both liked was maybe a dozen years old, and the only reason I could come up with not to take it home immediately was that it was a little…
Friday Morning: Live On Youtube!
Published: Thu, 01/25/24
Top Five Eight Bar Blues – Live! (You know it's going to be e citing because I've already used more than my quota of e clamation marks in an email…
Slide Guitar: Use What You Already Know
Published: Thu, 01/25/24
The Dauphin has got his license, and his sister is not far behind, so Ms. Fretboard and I wasted – er, spent – a good part of last week rounding up a…
Slide Foundations
Published: Tue, 01/23/24
I can more or less divide the things I've learned to do on the guitar into two categories: stuff I tried to the learn the right way, and stuff I…
Escaping The Turnaround
Published: Fri, 01/19/24
as an e ample of the kind of modern, urban bluesman Wald believes Robert Johnson aspired to be. And my friend Paul Rishell has often mentioned…
New Slide Workshop
Published: Tue, 01/16/24
Also, in an ongoing effort to find focus in my own work, I've deferred to standard tuning, non-slide fingerstyle guitar for the past several years as…