Hey, what’s up? It’s Claude Johnson here and I just came up with a really cool pentatonic idea that I want to share with you. Check it out. So I want to show you this new way of using pentatonic scales. Normally we kind of tend to go up and down the scale, like A …
Hey Friend, Who da man? No, I’m not talking ME lol… although some people are really happy with all the blog lessons i’ve been posting recently. No, I’m actually talking about instructor Woody Mann. He’s one of 4 great intstructors that are decoding 6 of the all time legends of delta blues/acoustic blues/country blues guitar. …
This is the craziest blues guitar package I’ve ever offered. It features: 4 Teachers… 6 DVDs… 9 hours of instruction… 230 pages of easy-to-read tabs… A lifetime of blues guitar enjoyment… And one hot price. It all goes down on Tuesday the 13th. Check out today’s DVD preview lesson in the style of Blind Boy …
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 …
Here’s a cool lick that you can try out… Sounds best when played pretty fast. Of interest is how we can get from one position to another by sliding around… Also notice how we start in a G mixolydian tonality (using the F natural) but end up using the F# (G major tonality) at the …
Hey, how’s it going? I’m Claude Johnson and today I want to talk about hammer-ons from nowhere. This is a technique where you’re going to be hammering-on to a string, but the note that you played before it was on a different string. So if we have this real simple, descending lick, basically three notes …
Phrasing on the guitar can mean how you’re playing a lick rhythmically… But it can also refer to the subtleties that you add to the notes — hammerons, pullofs, bends, vibrato, harmonics..etc. Here’s a cool way to use slides when you’re playing lead. Check it out:
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 …
Another Delta bluesman — Walter “Furry” Lewis was a great guitarist and improviser… You might not understand everything going on in this video, but don’t worry because with the “Deep Delta Blues” package, you’ll get it all tabbed out. But even if we don’t get all the right hand picking stuff, you can learn a …