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Hey Friend, I just released another “Deep Delta Blues” video today. Woo hoo! 🙂 It’s in the style of the late, great Blind Boy Fuller. BLIND BOY FULLER GUITAR LESSON I think you’ll find the instruction is extremely clear! Of course, with the tabs it will be even more easy to learn from. I want …
Hey Friend, Ok here’s the scoop — I just recorded 5 new guitar video lessons and I was going to title this email something boring like “5 new video lessons”… Then I thought I would be clever and tell you its really 5 ways to be happy! RAH RAH 🙂 AND THEN i thought… why …
Hey Friend, I started recording some video guitar lessons for you today, but I realized I wouldn’t have time to upload them in time to get this email out to you, so they’ll have to wait till next time… Good stuff coming though, I promise 🙂 I do have a video today from instructor John …
Hey Friend, One of the great Delta bluesmen was Mississippi John Hurt. He was a total original and an influence on other legendary guitarists like Jerry Garcia and Bob Dylan. I’m stoked about the fact that Mississippi John Hurt is one of 6 guitar legends featured on our new “Deep Delta” Blues packge. In today’s …
Hey Friend, I just put out a video series justfor the beginners who want tolearn lead guitar. It’s 20 minutes of video instructionwith an included backing track. What am I charging for this? Absolutely freaking nothing! 🙂 Just go watch it on my blog. CLAUDE JOHNSON BLOG I decided I needed to take careof the …
Hi Friend, A couple years ago, I bought a book called “The artists way”. Pretty much it sat on my shelf for a long while. But i’ve been thumbing through it recently, picking up little nuggets of wisdom. Here’s a cool quote: “Sometimes I will write badly, draw badly, paint badly, perform badly. I have …
Hi Friend, So, the weather has been crazy —an earthquake and a hurricanein the same week. What arethe odds? It’s kind of a funny story,because I was sitting onmy sofa, watching a roughedit of one our upcomingDVDs. And there’s this mean,rockin guitar riff withdistortion and I hadthe TV on a bit loud. And the next …
Hi Friend, I want to share a video with you today. No… its not one of my coolio lessons with tabs. I’ll have a “Claude Lesson” for you in the next email. Promise 🙂 No, today I want to show you what I can only call a “smooth” guitar solo. It’s not the fastest playing …
Hi Friend, LOVE IS IN THE AIR FOLKS! God knows what’s going on but the Guitar Control family is getting shot by cupid left, right and center! First, Virtuwul got married in May. Then, I got engaged last month. And now: JIMMY DILLON IS GETTING MARRIED THIS WEEK! Congrats Jimmy! He’s actually already in Maui …
Hey Friend, I hope you’ve been enjoying the lessons I’m posting on my blog. I’ve been doing more of them lately with video and tabs. MY BLOG If you’ve been on my list for a while, you know I’ll do everything from guitar lessons to wacky entertainment, to sharing personal strories, whatever… So pardon me …