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A Santana Story

hi Friend, Carlos Santana is one my all time favorite guitarists. That’s why I’m so jealous of Jimmy Dillon right now – hegets to play with him later this year. grr… well it’s all good – at least Jimmy is sharing hisstories about the legends (and his guitar wisdom)with all of us. In fact, he’s …

Alternating eighth notes and rests

What notes you play are only half the story. The other story is the rhythms. One interesting and useful rhythm is to alternate eighth notes and eighth note rests. It can spice up even the most stupidly simple riff, such as descending down the pentatonic scale. Check it out! [audio:https://www.claudejohnson.com/blog/audio/lick-sep-27-2010.mp3] If you need help counting …

Going to play with Santana again!

I am looking forward to playing with Carlos Santana and Narada Michael Walden as well as some other great Bay Area musicians on december 17th in my home town of Mill Valley. The show is a yearly event that benefits kids and music, my 2 favorite causes! That reminds me of a memorable gig a …

The 12 count form

Here’s Mehran , showing you the basic 12 count form for Flamenco… The sound is a little weird, that will be fixed on the DVDs… My name is Mayron [phonetic]. I am a flamenco guitarist and I’m here to teach you some introductory lessons to flamenco. What I will start with is a lot of …