I   Ok - I figured I'd put this video practice of the 1st couple of Nashville Blues lessons. I can't help myself but once a new lesson goes up I find myself happy to start it...

The concept of notes and even chords having color is a beautifl ... verbal way to describe how I feel when writing, playing, or listening to a song.  For most of my life ... when I...

Hello Chris,  I am new to the site, and have gone through the the first couple lessons.  I am a song writer and looking to keep up a little better with my Bluegrass buddies at...

Hi Brooks, welcome to the site! Because the concept of color is so elusive and personal (and therefore difficult to write about!) I made a short video talking about how one might...

Rick, This whole series really gave my bends a workout.  But more than that.  At one point you said, "This going to be really cool when you get it."  Well, I don't have all of it...

Hey Duke! What great licks -- that phrasing is so simple and yet so evocative. The lick in the second phrase where it bends on the 7th fret and alternates with the 9th fret kind of...

Thanks Joe! I'll be looking for it here. Keep blowin'!

I revisited Denise Gruenlng's Horton Suffle and felt the need to record this after a lot of work.  My playing is far from perfect or near to Dennis's playing but I learned a lot...

Hi Chris,  I just thought I'd give this a whirl. I went with your intro, and then for the solo I kinda took off on your first phrase and added some improvisation. The repeat got...

Hi Chris,  I just thought I'd give this a whirl. I went with your intro, and then for the solo I kinda took off on your first phrase and added some improvisation. The repeat got...

Thanks for another great series of lessons, Rick - I learned a lot!

This is the second lesson of the original blues song Baby Please Be True. Last week we focused on the left-hand rhythmic pattern this week we are studying the right-hand...

i've always LOVED the chromatic  descending lick  especially  with b string  aswell

I really like the intro to this song.  In fact, learning it was my gateway to doing other things with the slide.  Here we are focusing on simple but effective repetitie phrases to...

This week we'll be working on the entire last verse of the piece I named "Cotton Blend". This last verse references the theme from the head and contains many of the elements we've...

Hi Folks, This week we are learning the introduction and first verse to Freddy King's little known classic "Use what You Got". It's one of my favorite slow blues of all time and...

So I think repeat and repeat again a chorus is important to play it easier, but stop, listen and think about what to change is too. Register video can be good for that, and if you...

Playing amplified, you give intensity sometimes by closing strongly your fingers and so the sound on the mic. As well you open your hands to create “wouawoua”. I didn’t notice it...

Some bend are not the same, I noticed it, and probably I haven’t identified all the notes concerned! And I understood you don’t speak only about fully bend notes but also about end...

As you said, I’ve noticed some effects of my playing are not efficient at all compared to yours. In fact, firstly when I learned the choruses, hearing my playing appeared to me...

Hello Rick ! I thank you for your opinion, it’s so important and useful for me. The duality of emotional feelings I had during I was expecting it is very strange: on one side I...

Hey Bryan, Kip and anyone else who is curious about such things: I've got a handful of guitars that I really love but the one that I have played on all of the videos here on...

Hello Chris,  I am new to the site, and have gone through the the first couple lessons.  I am a song writer and looking to keep up a little better with my Bluegrass buddies at...

Yeah, the Martin Monels are cool. Very different. I was using them on my D-18 with great success for awhile. I'll have to try the Newtones and the new hybrid D'Addarios...

Thanks so much, Chris.  I do think we're at an interesting place string-wise. Used to be D'Addarios or Pearses in phosphor bronze. Or 80/20 if you were thinking crazy. Those remain...

the original way is the best. thanks Duke 

Allen, I'm visiting my folks in FL for the next couple of days but I will upload a picture of the backstrip when I get home in a few days. As to why the name Herschel: I have no...

This is going to take time,a lot of important stuff in here

Hey Davell, Thanks for the lesson - here's my attempt at it. Any critiques welcome

My pleasure, Clive. The 2 CD set is well worth owning. I was listening to it today, and almost every track is killer.