Instruction: Lime House Blues – Lesson & Breakdown
In this segment Tommy shows you how to play the song “Lime House Blues”. This is another song that’s been around a long time, with guitarists such as Django Reinhardt, Barney Kessel and Herb Ellis, Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed, Richard Smith, Les Paul, and many others all playing fantastic versions of this tune. There […]
Instruction: Lime House Blues – Slow Playalong
In this playalong, we’ll put all of the mechanics we just learned together and play through the song “Lime House Blues” at a slow tempo. Before you tackle this playalong, be sure that you’re comfortable with each of the techniques we worked on in the lesson and can play through the changes with ease. Take […]
Instruction: Lime House Blues – Performance
In this video, I’ll give you a short performance of the song “Lime House Blues” played at a moderate tempo. Once you’ve worked with the lesson for this song and have learned to put the parts and necessary techniques together, be sure to work with the slow playalong first before moving it up to this […]
Instruction: House of the Rising Sun – Slow Playalong
In this playalong, we’ll put all of the mechanics we just learned together and play through the song “House of the Rising Sun” at a slow tempo. Before you tackle this playalong, be sure that you’re comfortable with each of the techniques we worked on in the lesson and can play through the changes with […]
Instruction: House of the Rising Sun – Lesson & Breakdown
In this segment Tommy shows you how to play the song “House of the Rising Sun”. This is an old song that makes a wonderful instrumental, the most popular likely being The Animals’ version. The melody in this tune is based on the vocal melody, played over a boom chick bass line. There’s some ideas […]
Instruction: House of the Rising Sun – Performance
In this video, I’ll give you a short performance of the song “House of the Rising Sun” played at a moderate tempo. Once you’ve worked with the lesson for this song and have learned to put the parts and necessary techniques together, be sure to work with the slow playalong first before moving it up […]
Instruction: Classic Fingerstyle Licks – Exercise 1 Playalong
Now let’s work on our first lick by playing it through together. It’s important that you put in the time with your metronome first so that you can play through the lick in time and the notes ring clear. Use this playalong video as a test: if you can play along with me at this […]
Instruction: Classic Fingerstyle Licks – Demonstration
In this video we’ll talk a bit about some classical fingerstyle licks you can learn. This is important to get under your fingers and the time you spend working on it now will prove very useful once we get further into the repertoire part of the course. We’ll also learn a few exercises that you […]
Instruction: Boomchick Inversions – Exercise Playalong
Now let’s work on your inversions by playing through this exercise together. It’s important that you put in the time with your metronome first so that you can play through the exercise in time and the notes ring clear. Use this playalong video as a test: if you can play along with me at this […]
Instruction: Boomchick Inversions – Demonstration
In this video we’ll talk a bit about the importance of knowing inversions for boomchick bass. This is an important technique to get under your fingers and the time you spend working on it now will prove very useful once we get further into the repertoire part of the course. We’ll also learn an exercise […]
