Hi Friend, Greetings to you on this fine day. It is a beautiful day to be alive. It inspires me to play some beautiful music on the guitar, and there’s fewer things more pretty than the major7 chord. One cool idea that I got from a jazz standard is to play the 2-chord progression: Amaj7 …
Major 7 chords are amoung my favorite chords. They have a very beautiful, mellow quality to them. You can do a lot of cool things on the guitar with some very simple musical ideas. For example, let’s take a 2 chord progression – Amaj7 to Dmaj7. We can spice it up with just a few …
Friend, Goooood mornin. How are you? I feel kind of “meh” this morning, but I plan to hit the gym and that usually gives me a new energy for the day. What can I share with you today in the world of guitar? I was just playing an old favorite this morning: Badge, by Cream. …
Kenny Neal is a blues and swamp blues guitarist and singer. He was born on October 14, 1957, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Neal comes from a musical family; his father, Raful Neal, was a blues singer, harmonicist, and songwriter. Eight of his nine siblings are also blues musicians and he often performed with his brothers …
Omar Kent Dykes is an American blues guitarist and singer from McComb Mississippi. He formed the band Omar & the Howlers in 1973, and has also had a successful career as a solo artist, regularly touring European countries. His solo albums include Blues Bag and Muddy Springs Road. Dykes started playing guitar when he was …
Blues guitarist Robert “Pete” Williams (March 14, 1914 – December 31, 1980) was born to a family of sharecroppers in Zachary, Louisiana. At the age of 20, he bought a cheap guitar and began to play for small events such as dances and church gatherings. In 1956, Williams shot a man dead in a local …
Booker T. Washington White (November 12, 1906 – February 26, 1977), also known as Bukka White, was a delta blues guitarist and singer from Mississippi. “Bukka” is actually not a nickname, but a misspelling of his given name Booker by Vocalion, his second record label. White started his career playing the fiddle at square dances; …
Here, Mehran shows you a typical “Sevillana” flamenco form. Notice the use of “falsettas” – little melodies that you play in between the chords. When you buy your copy of “Flamenco Guitar Secrets”, you’ll get the tabs to all of it… Check it out: They’re all the different keys. Most of the stuff I’m going …
Blues guitarist Johnny “Guitar” Watson (February 3, 1935 – May 17, 1996) was an American blues, funk guitarist and singer from Houston, Texas. His father who was a pianist taught him piano, but Watson was more attracted to guitar as a young child and when he was 11, his grandfather gave him a guitar. Watson …
James “Blood” Ulmer is an American jazz and blues guitarist and singer. He was born on February 2, 1942, in St. Matthews, South Carolina. Ulmer began his career playing with various soul jazz ensembles, first recording in 1969 with organist John Patton. In 1971, he moved to New York and played with different artists including …