I see that I have students will great taste! Don't hesitate to mention more tunes to learn........Duke
my uptempo blues shuffle "Cookin" is our current lesson. "Honky Tonk" and Pee wee Crayton's "Texas Hop" are coming soon and some blues with added chords also......
Duke, maybe you could do "I Can't Believe You're In Love With Me" posted by mars5. I'd like to see your take on Rhythm guitar, Timing, as well as chord substitution logic. Along with this when you add singing on top of it, it can sometimes change your choice of chords, rhythm and timing. This is the type of lesson that would personally make me jump to join full time. Oh, and then on top of this, give us your thinking of how you solo over the chord changes. For example, do you learn the melody first..and in a few positions (that's what I do). Then do you visualize the chord changes under your melody. Then after that is under your fingertips, do you then branch out and add your own flair of single note playing using your knowledge of scales/arpeggios for each chord?
Thanks
Steve
Hi Steve, I have an instrumental version of that on my forthcoming jazz guitar trio CD! That would be a good one also. Duke
Duke, I am looking forward to the Jazz Trio CD being released. When can we expect to see that album for sale? What is the fomat, guitar/bass/drums, or guitar/bass/piano? I am a huge Oscar Moore fan of his work with the Nat King Cole Trio. Would love to hear your take on his comping style which is a unique replacement for the swoosh sound of brushes on the drums. Here's a cool video showing his beautiful guitar and speedy single note playing. http://youtu.be/50efrirBImc
Steve
While not specific tunes, I would enjoy seeing lessons on the playing of some of the early electric guitar players like Charlie Christian or Tiny Grimes. This thread got me to go back through some of your CDs that I have, Duke, and I had forgotten that you recorded an arrangement of Frankie and Johnny similar to Tiny Grimes'! Awesome! The other songs that caught my eye going through your CDs were You Won't Let Me Go, Gonna Get You Told, and Ain't Nobody's Business.
Man, now I am looking at the liner notes of World Full of Blues and saw that You Won't Let Me Go is a Lonnie Johnson song that I do not have in my Lonnie Johnson collection....
Hello Jason, I will do a few lessons on the styles of Charlie Christion, Tiny Grimes and Oscar Moore. Definately 3 of my favorite guitarists in this vein. Also a decade or so later....Billy Butler, and Wild Bill Jennings also played great melodic bluesy stuff with Bill Doggett, Willis Jackson and Jack McDuff.
I always wanted to learn some of the Bobby Timmons' songs that he did with Art Blakey and the messenegers. Dat Dere, Moanin and so on.
