Friend, How does a pro guitarist embellish a simple chord progression with ordinary major and minor chords? One way, is just in arranging the chords – putting the right chords next to each other, and knowing when and how to resolve a progression is crucial. Another way, is to use some cool picking patterns. Or, …
Hello Friend, There’s a new video today from Jimmy Dillon. It’s a montage of short sample clips from the soon-to-be-released “Soul of Acoustic Guitar”. How soon, you ask? Just 2 weeks! Yep, this baby is available on April 27th so get ready. In today’s video, Jimmy shows how both Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton use …
Hey guitarists! Here’s more acoustic blues secrets and another sample clip from DVD II of “Soul of Acoustic Guitar”. Here, Jimmy teaches tons more styles with blues in E, and then gets into folk blues (including Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton styles), finger picking, “claw-hammer” style, and folk. Check it out and post your comment …
Friend, I read CRAZY stories in the news. Yesterday I was reading about a 102 year old lady from China who went back to the first grade. It looked funny, but its kind of inspiring and proof that its never too late… to do anything! Another wacky article reported that 1 in 5 people believe …
Hey guitarists! Here’s another sample clip from “Soul of Acoustic Guitar”. This is from the second DVD… Jimmy starts off teaching some acoustic blues in the key of E…And he is dishing out a lot of cool, soulful guitar wisdom, licks, tricks, riffs, and rhythms. Check it out and post your comment please! Click here …
Friend, Hey… I hope you had a rockin weekend! I have to say, mine was fantastiC. I had a great time on Sunday with my parents…celebrating my dad’s 73th birthday 🙂 And you what? I have a feeling that this week should be great. Spring is in full swing…(lol) To help you kick it off …
Hi folks… Ok here’s a cool technique, just hitting the strings with your fingers/knuckles to get a percussive sound that can make your rhythm playing swing. I’ll show you this technique on a cool blues progression from a classic blues song called Reconsider baby, written by Lowell Fulson and covered by all the blues greats …
Hi Friend, Hope your’re having or had a great Easter/Passover or whatever Sping holiday you might be celebrating 🙂 I have a special surpise for you: A cool video lesson! I was thinking what I can teach you today and I was thinking 2 things actually. One is a classic killer blues progression and the …
Hey Folks…You know what day it is… Check out Uncle Tony’s Amazing Guitar Solo
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