Hi Peter, For some reason I can't get track to play. Maybe Mike can fix it? Sorry, Duke   

Hi Vinny, Thanks for clarifying that about Albert's tuning. Duke

This months lesson is the classic 8 bar blues, "How Long" My first lesson is learning the basic song with simplest changes for guitar in A. Basically in a simple finger picking...

Thanks Jerry.  I have been wanting to better understand how to play 1st posiition blues on the low end of the harp.

Duke I notice that you have signed the guitar.  Did you paint the beautiful beach scene yourself???

howlin wolf's sloppy old Sittin on Top of the World would be cool too  this is a nice one....nuacnes 

Frank Zappa's favorite song! thanks Duke.

This month we are working on Johnny Guitar Watson's 3 Hours Past Midnight. I spend a brief time demonstrating the chords the we go on to the introduction which starts on the 4...

Here's a good video to practice too.  Jerry and Eric in Hyde park 1996.   I agree BK ... singing the notes works for me too ... and I do it mostly for guitar.   This is going to be...

Oh, thanks for this, Jerry!  I've been waiting for this for some time How about some Howlin' Wolf riffs too?  (Smokestack Lightnin' and Forty-Four for a couple of examples.)  I...

The signature riff from Hoochie Coochie Man. A very simple riff played in 1st position. A harp in key of A. The original had Little Walter playing behind Muddy's vocal. We'll be...

Thanks all.  I came to the same conclusion and bought a Brugera V5 instead.

I am no fan of the peavey amps...they sound lifeless to me (I have a classic 30). I vastly prefer Fender amps like the blues jr or the pro jr for harp. they have enough clear clean...

Also acoustic amps have one very good feature that you don't normally find on other amps, and that is an xlr out which connects directly into a PA and allows you to use your amp as...

For the money you can't go wrong, but these are all basically guitar amps.  Since they are tube amps, they will warm up a mic, but they are limited in range.  If you are primarily...

Yes i know, it did not work.  That's why i posted this.  The only way I could get a video to show was by inserting the "imbed" code direcly into html.  

Hi Vinny .. thanks for the feedback.  To insert a YouTube video with the link, you use the big red play button on the top menu and then cut and paste the link in the box.  When you...

Mike: I found that using the "imbed" feature on YouTube and inserting the code in  html worked fine, but I was unable to get a video to work just using it's url.

This video my friend Sergey Vladimirov. Thanks, Jerry, from Russia!

Looking at this a little more closely, the D minor uses an F instead of an F# (open D) on the third string, which is in the D blues scale; f# isn't.  One advantage to this type of...

Hi Duke, what sort of guitar is that? Lindsay

Very Helpful, thanks again Rick

Great lesson.  There is some controversy about his tuning, some say F minor capoed on 5th or 6th fret, but most commonly you will see him capoed on 7th fret, playing in A in an...

I might be able to help if I heard you try to do it. Can you post a video?

Don't know what CD you're referring to but any Sonny Boy I CD is good to have.

Hi Joey, I will look into that and see what I can come up with on the chord solo idea. Thanks, Duke

Hello Duke. This is a real honor to get to learn from you and also talk to you. I'm a big fan. Any chance you could cover some chord solo technique like what you played at the end...

Thanks Rick

I hear that as hair a-socked sort of like the times they are a-changing. 

I believe the line is..."to get my hair socked."