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…
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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…
The Additive Property
Published: Fri, 01/12/24
As the guy just helping out, I got to absorb these things in smaller doses than my kids did. Also, solving for X is a lot easier when you're not…
Origin Story
Published: Tue, 01/09/24
Guitar Player. Having learned some basic pattern picking almost as soon as I learned my first chords, and having zero inclination to sing, I also…
Live Stream Update!
Published: Sat, 01/06/24
THIS link may take you right there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_jGMYCz9oA But if it doesn't, just go to the channel and cross your fingers. Like…