The Blues Guitar

  In this video, I will show you my blues version of the classic song Somewhere Over The Rainbow. The original version of this song was written By Harold Arlen and featured in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. This fingerstyle arrangement is in the Key of G, is in 4/4 time, and is played on a guitar in standard tuning. Below are some tips to help you play this piece and links to download the tab. Somewhere Over The Rainbow Tab - Power Tab - PDF - TXT Getting the Right Note Duration - This piece features quite a variety of different note durations. It has 1/2 notes, 1/4 notes, 1/8 notes with a triplet feel applied, and also 1/8 note triplets. It switches between these different note durations quite frequently and it can sometimes be hard to get the timing right. Just listen through the piece on the video, keep an eye on the written music, and learn to play it slowly and you should be able to learn all these variations. Making The Chords - The chords primarily used in...

  Thumb Independence is a useful skill when playing fingerstyle guitar, and it is used a lot when playing many styles of guitar music such as country blues and folk music. In this post, and the accompanying videos, I want to help you to learn this valuable skill though a series of exercises. The exercises will start relatively easy and get progressively harder, until at the end you should hopefully be competent in this skill. There will be 4 videos, with corresponding posts on this website. Each will have 5 exercises giving 20 exercises in total. All the tab for the exercises will be free to download from this website in Power Tab, PDF and TXT format. Below is the tab for the first 5 exercises which are featured in this video: Power Tab - PDF - TXT All of these 5 exercises are played on a guitar tuned to Open D.   What is Thumb Independence? Thumb Independence is a fingerstyle guitar technique where basically the thumb plays independently of the other picking fingers. The th...

  In this video, I will show you how to play the guitar part from Mississippi John Hurt's song Louis Collins. The guitar part is played on a guitar in standard tuning, is in the Key of C, and is in 4/4 time. Like most of Mississippi John Hurt's songs, this is very repetitive. The guitar part is 11 bars long and is repeated through the entire song. The guitar part uses a travis picking pattern, so if you are used to playing like this, it shouldn't be too problematic.  Below are some tips to help you play this piece and links to download the tab. I have also provided the lyrics if you wish to sing the vocal parts too Nobody's Dirty Business Tab - Power Tab - PDF - TXT Louis Collins - Mississippi John Hurt - Lyrics Mrs. Collins weeped, Mrs. Collins moaned, To see her son Louis leavin' home The angels laid him away The angels laid him away, They laid him six feet under the clay The angels laid him away   Mrs. Collins weeped, Mrs. Collins moaned, To see her...