The best course of 2011?

hi Friend, If you play the acoustic guitar… Then READ. THIS. EMAIL. NOW. The year isn’t over — however I’m going to make a prediction. Acoustic Enlightenment is the best guitar course of 2011. It’s available a week from today — Nov 9th. If you wanna see the previews, go here: ACOUSTIC ENLIGHTENMENT Jimmy Dillon

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Can you call us?

hi Friend, First let me get the really big news out of the way. This THURSDAY – on 11/3, we are having a conference call with Jimmy Dillon. He’s gonna talk about his Acoustic Tree, his new course, all things guitar… And the coolest part is you’re invited to interact live with me and Jimmy

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Easy Chicken Pickin Lick

I can play a few licks in the chicken pickin style but if you want to learn from the master, CLICK HERE. Hey, what’s up? It’s Claude Johnson. I’ve got like three minutes, so I’m going to try to give you a lesson real quick. Here we go. So here’s probably the number one chicken

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killer acoustic tree + live call with J.D.

hi Friend, I promised you some goodies and now they are here. No, I’m not going to bring you a chocolate cupcake, but check this out: JIMMYS ACOUSTIC TREE It’s an acoustic tree that Jimmy sent us showing his favorite acoustic players. It’s always entertaining and interesting to learn about different players. You might say

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Acoustic Enlightenment

Acoustic Guitar Influences

Hey guitarists! Check this out: Jimmy just sent me his “acoustic influences” tree. Please keep in mind this is JIMMY’s personal influences, not necessarily a list of the most important acoustic guitarists ever. However, that being said, feel free to comment and tell us YOUR favorite guitarists too! 🙂 Also please stay tuned for our

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please… don’t blow the flow.

hi Friend, Let’s talk about making sweet sounds on your acoustic guitar. That’s the whole point of JD’s new course called Acoustic Enlightenment which comes out on Nov 9. Don’t get me wrong — I love electric too… But talking about acoustic TODAY 🙂 And today, I’d like to give you yet another sample video.

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Flowing With Chords | How to Connect Guitar Chords

GET this course NOW! So the first pass is going to show you it’s just a simple descending line. And when I say a descending line, what do I mean? Well, in the key of G we have some target notes that I’m going to show you that explain how you can walk down and

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The butler did it?

hi Friend, You can never learn too many cool licks on the guitar. Today I’d like to share with you a lick from Jimmy Dillon. It’s a great lick because it’s a lil’ bit dissonant. Dissonance is a fun thing. It’s kind of like biting into a lemon. But when you put it into context,

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Cool dissonant lick

GET this course now! we have some fantabulous prizes for those who are the first to grab this kick-butt series. More on that later. For now, grab your gee-tar and learn this cool lick. GO! You know, you can’t get enough hot licks or enough great new licks. So what I’d like to do now

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Blues licks using the 9th (video lesson)

hi Friend, Gonna try to make this email short and sweet. Sometimes I ramble (like last email telling you that story about Lars) and sometimes I’m just gonna send over to my guitar blog… Like today — I’m excited about this lesson I just recorded. I show you how Hendrix and Stevie Ray used the

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