Today, we're going to learn Jimmy Herring’s first solo from Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo, from the AMAZING Jazz is Dead record, Laughing Water. In this lesson, you’re going to learn how to play this solo, which i’ve broken down into four licks. We’ll talk about how to play these licks, and why they sound so good. [...]
This was supposed to be a short 5 minute guitar lesson about one of Trey Anastasio's signature techniques called The Anchor Slide. I was just going to transcribe "a couple" measures of the 12-9-95 Albany YEM because it contains an exceptionally beautiful demonstration this technique. But every next phrase that I paid attention to just got cooler and cooler [...]
For this week's lesson, we'll study one of John Mayer's beautiful guitar solos from the 7-16-2016 version of Sugaree with Dead and Company, at Fenway Park in Boston, MA. I'll break down this solo into four digestible licks and we'll talk about how you can use Mayer's soulful techniques in your own playing. [...]
In this guitar lesson, I’ll put Trey Anastasio’s solo on Limb By Limb from Story of the Ghost under the microscope, and break it down into 11 different licks. We’ll study the concepts behind this masterful piece of work, and then figure out how you can use these concepts in your own playing. [Title [...]
