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I Will Dare

Evening Patrons! Here's this week's video. (A little later than usual - thanks to a mega time-consuming edit - but I got there in the end!)

I'm looking at the classic Replacements track I Will Dare. I know quite a few of you on here have req...

Stand Up Backing Track

Heres the backing track. It should follow the arrangement of the original recording. I also recommend you experiment with your own variations and embellishments on the Teenie Hodges part. Have fun playing along!

Stand Up by Al Green

Hi all! To follow on from the Rainy Night In Georgia I did a few months back, I wanted to look at some more classic soul rhythm playing. So here's my take on the Al Green track Stand Up, featuring some lovely guitar work from the great Teenie Hodg...

New Year Guitar Workout

Happy New Year all! Hope everyone's doing OK. To kick things off for 2021 I have a selection of my favourite guitar exercises. I don't know about any of you, but I've hardly picked up a guitar over the past couple of weeks and am feeling slightly ...

Silver Bells Backing No Vocoder

Just in case you wanted to play the chorus melody yourself on the guitar (or maybe you object to the cheesy robot voice - what's wrong with you, it's great!?) here's the backing sans vocoder. 

Silver Bells Backing Track

Enjoy playing along!

Silver Bells

Hello patronz!  My Christmas special proper this week, and I'm once again looking at a track from the great Ventures' Christmas album. Here's the link - 

https://yout...

Israel Backing Track

Here's the backing to go with this week's video. I had fun making this one. A great bass line with chorus effect, real sleigh bells, mellotron choirs. I used the Arturia Mellotron V plug-in for the choir sounds - a great instrument, highly recomme...

Israel - Siouxsie & The Banshees

I've been meaning to look at this track anyway, but since we're getting on towards the middle of December, I thought I'd make this one my annual Christmas Special. We have sleigh bells, a choir, some excellent riffs from John McGeoch!

Her's ...

The Last Steam Engine Train by John Fahey

This week, some acoustic blues and a wonderful piece from the great John Fahey. Quite a difficult one (at least it is for me) but don't let that put you off making an attempt. It's certainly achievable if you take it slowly, bit by bit.

Here...

Arabian Knights Backing Track

Here's my backing. Figuring out the bass and drum parts for this track really deepened my appreciation for the Banshees rhythm section. Really great stuff. Enjoy playing along. 

Arabian Knights by Siouxsie and the Banshees

Hello all! I'm feeling much better this week, and normal service is resuming. I recently got sent an Eastwood McGeoch 1000 guitar and that gives me the perfect excuse to look at other post-punk classic from Siouxsie and the Banshees. 

I...

No new video...but 2 old videos

Hello all!

Bad news. Sadly there's going to be no new video today. Nothing too serious, but I've been slightly under the weather all week. Just a cold with a sore throat, but I attempted to film earlier in the week and sounded ridiculous. So...

One-String Soloing Backing Track

Here's the backing track to accompany this week's lesson. Have fun!

One-String Soloing

Hello all,

This week, a simple yet powerful concept aimed at developing your soloing and improvising abilities. We're going to be playing over a blues in E, but you're only allowed to use the B string. These kind of restrictive exercises can...

Into My Arms - Nick Cave

Hello all!

I'm trying something slightly different this week. Since many of my favourite Nick Cave songs don't contain that much guitar, I thought I'd have a go at doing my own arrangement of this beautiful piano-based ballad. In the video I...

Nosferatu Man Backing Track

Here's my backing to go along with this week's video. I'm afraid I didn't do the entire track, just the first verse and chorus. But hope some of you find it useful.

Nosferatu Man

Hello all,

This week, another loosely Halloween-themed video: Nosferatu Man by Slint. Again, this is a band I was planning on taking look at sooner or later anyway. This is a fascinating track, with tons of interesting things going on: drop ...

Bela Lugosi's Dead Backing Track

Here's the backing for this week's video. It doesn't really follow the original too closely. The main riff is just played, er, lots of times and then I go into a chorus towards the end. 

There's an interesting octave bass part. And for ...

Bela Lugosi's Dead by Bauhaus

Hello all! It's that  time of year for a goth-rock Halloween special. This has long been a favourite track of mine. We have a couple of easy barre chord riffs and lots of crazy atmospherics. There's some spooky silliness, but also some seriou...

Strolling Down The Highway by Bert Jansch

I wanted to do something acoustic this week and have plumped for a bit more Bert Jansch, one of my all-time favourite acoustic players. It's a short piece, but quite an intricate one. So slow it right down, and take it a bar or a beat at a time if...

The Have Nots Backing Track

Here's the backing track to go along with this weeks video. It's just the solo section of the song, since it's a long and complex track and, if I'm honest, I simply didn't have time this week to figure out and record the whole thing! But hope some...

The Have Nots by X

Hello all,

This week, more X. As I say in the video, I don't usually like to repeat myself by looking at the same artist in consecutive videos, but I couldn't resist taking a look at this track. It contains a superb country-influenced guitar...

White Girl Backing Track

Here's the backing track. It follows the arrangement of the original recording. Enjoy playing along!

White Girl by X

Hello Patrons! 

This week, I'm looking at a track by LA punk band X. X are one of those bands I've known about for along time, but I'd never properly explored their music until quite recently. Now I'm a true believer - great songs, grea...

Be-Bop-A-Lula-Backing Track

Here's my backing. It follows the arrangement of the original recording. Of course feel free to also use it to improvise your own stuff over. Have fun!

Be-Bop-A-Lula

Afternoon all,

I'm in the mood for a bit of classic rock n roll this week. As I say in the video, I was surprised to find there's not much out there in the way of detailed lessons on this track. It contains 2 essential rockabilly solos from ...

Folsom Prison Blues Solo Breakdown

Hope everyone's having a good weekend. As promised, here's a video breakdown of my Folsom Prison Blues solo. I go through it lick by lick and talk about some of the thought process behind it. Here's the link:

2020-09-20 14:30:52 +0000 UTC View Post

Folsom Prison Blues Backing Track

I've made this backing track available free to everyone on my site, but I'm putting it up on here too in case any of you want a downloadable mp3 version.

It follows the 11/22 bar blues structure you hear on Cash's recordings. 

Enj...

Improv Session: Folsom Prison Blues

Hello all! This week, another Improv Session. For this one, I'm playing over a Johnny Cash-inspired backing track. There are lots of soloing tips and tricks - scale options, bending ideas, licks...

Here's the link: 2020-09-18 13:32:56 +0000 UTC View Post