Subject: Gonna Hitch a Ride...
Gonna Hitch a Ride...
February 21st, 2016 at 11:52 am EDTHey Friend, Oh yeah, here it is! Another rocker from my youth... Let's take a quick minute to look at a song that uses power chord shapes very effectively. The song is "Hitch a Ride" by Boston and the intro/verse progression sounds a lot more difficu ...
I'm Making Musical Hairy Buffalo Punch...
February 20th, 2016 at 11:43 am EDTHey Friend, Want some? Saturday, glorious Saturday! There's just something about having a day where you can veg out... I sat down to start writing and intended on playing some concentration music - you know some Baroque in the Largo tempo. It tends t ...
The End Goal of Music
February 19th, 2016 at 12:00 pm EDTHey Friend, Why do musicians create music? Is it for the fame? The fortune? The chicks? No, it goes quite a bit deeper than that... Musicians are translators. We're storytellers. We take various sound frequencies and bring them together into cohe ...
Here's a Cool Power Chord Example
February 18th, 2016 at 11:18 am EDTHey Friend, I decided to take the power chord inversion discussion from yesterday and create a little riff for you to hear how an inversion can give a chord a different sound. Download the MP3 and take a listen. If you look at the chord chart, you ...
Flippity Floppin' Notes
February 17th, 2016 at 11:22 am EDTHey Friend, Did you realize you can flip-flop the notes of power chords around to get a different sound? Like regular chords, there are power chord inversions. We've been rocking along using power chords in the standard fingering and shape, but it do ...
Killing Me Softly...
February 16th, 2016 at 11:11 am EDTHey Friend, There was a #1 song back in the early 70s by this title (the full title is "Killing Me Softly With His Song" by Fox and Gimbel). It was made famous by the stylings of Roberta Flack. It tells a story of how a well crafted song can open up ...
Ideas in E5
February 15th, 2016 at 11:11 am EDTHey Friend, I mentioned coming up with a cool-sounding riff the other day, starting off with an E5 power chord. This all came about in a quick little five minute session (okay, confession... Usually when I sit down to do five, it ends up being ten or ...
Happy Valentine's Day
February 14th, 2016 at 11:13 am EDTHey Friend, I'm kind of excited today... Not only is it the International day for LOVE, but in a word... DEADPOOL!!! My wife and I are having a date and going to see the new movie today for Valentine's Day. I'm such a romantic! Hopefully you'll forg ...
Your Guitar Called... It Misses You
February 13th, 2016 at 11:11 am EDTHey Friend, So begins another weekend... the close to one week and the beginning of another. Whatcha got going on? My wife has a little "honey do" list for me - I'll be hanging ceiling fans... Yeah! And don't forget, my sweets, tomorrow is Valentine' ...
What a Prude I Was...
February 12th, 2016 at 12:00 pm EDTHey Friend, Even though I've become the rocker you know (and love), the transition took a while to manifest itself. I was listening to some classic Foreigner yesterday and the song "Dirty White Boy" came on. Took me back to my teenage days... Do you ...