Hi Torgeir, nicely done! You've done a good job of making the bass line and the melody both speak. It already sounds nice and it will continue to get better the more you practice...

Living in the Mississippi Valley please!

Please please please, "Mean Mother Blues" and how to build crazy solos on it like yours and julian's ones !thank a lot !

Please please please, "Mean Mother Blues" and how to build crazy solos on it like yours and julian's ones !thank a lot !

Please please please, "Mean Mother Blues" and how to build crazy solos on it like yours and julian's ones !thank a lot !

hi duke, great job, just signed in yesterday! i don't know if or where i could place a wish. i would like a tutorial bout sy olivers shim-sham song "t'aint what you do it's the way...

I had to skip a few lessons, because butter and eggs is just to beautiful not to try! Challenging with some stretchy chords, I'll keep practizing and maybe advance to the solo. Any...

Norman Blake's version of 'Under the Double Eagle'

Hey Rick !! " you lied " there no trick to it .... keep it in your mouth !! loll .... these lessons are Amazing !! it s amazing how you play a lick and you say "something like that...

This week we will learn the melody and how combine it with the bass line. Start by playing the bass line with the chords and sing the melody while you play. Once you have...

Hey Duke - I love everything I ever heard Billy play. But sure there's more that I've never heard. I have all (or at least lots) of his stuff with Bill Doggett. And I have the...

Hey Sonic Junction - This week we’ve got another “Fattening Frogs” harp solo verse. It’s got some important advice on soloing psychology as well as a lot of Sonnyboy-esque licks...

Hi Folks, This weeks lesson consists of learning the first two A sections of a solo I have composed. I encourage you all to learn my solos as a jumping off point for you to create...

Hey, Duke, I've looked on YouTube but can't find a recording of Claude McLIn's version. I can't even find it on Amazon. Any idea where I can find a copy?  Thanks, Mark

Hi Dan, I'm getting behind on my lessons, but loving them. Here's a stab at Don't Get Around Much Anymore. How's the kreol going. Is there a Haitian song in our future?

Keep working that aural microscope! - I had to go back and listen myself to hear exactly what you were referencing. Noticing, figuring out and incorporating the little stuff is...

One thing you do that seems little but so important to that "official" sound is, at the end of every little phrase there's a momentary quiver, a brief vibrato maybe, where the note...

Thanks Bill - SBW2 was definitely a master at accompanying himself. I do what I can. Stick with it. Continue to develop that inner-metronome. You have a good, natural groove - Just...

Living in the Mississippi Valley please!

I'm definitely appreciating the details and the little variations. Keeping the groove going during the vocals is also tricky because this song is wordy and has some awkward...

Hi Chris, I *am* playing that B at the 4th fret of the G string (and as those chords change I’m playing the A at the 2nd fret of the 3rd string, and the open G string as well). I...

Hey Kip, absolutely. It’s on John Hartford’s Aereo-Plain record, which is one of the all time great bluegrass/new grass records. You should check it out!

Hi Mark.  Fortunately I live in Chicago and Bob Koester from jazzmart is an encyclopedia of all things blues/jazz  helped me with the name McLin, but he didn't think he had any...

Beautiful  ... I first heard this on a Bryan Sutton record and it really knocked me out. I was not aware it was a John Hartford tune. Thanks for always broadening the horizon.

Hey, Duke, I've looked on YouTube but can't find a recording of Claude McLIn's version. I can't even find it on Amazon. Any idea where I can find a copy?  Thanks, Mark

Hey Chris, So why put the pinky on the 4th fret G string?  You're not playing it.  I simply move my pinky to the high E on the third fret to accomplish that portion in the first...

In this first lesson we focus on the chords needed to play the song and the bass line. Start by isolating the bass line from the chord that you are playing. Once you can play the...

Hello Folks, This week we learn the melody for Never Mind. It's a fabulous melody for so many reasons. I'm sure you will enjoy playing it so get on it and we will be on to soloing...

Hey Sonic Junction - Rick Estrin again - This time with the third verse of Sonnyboy’s “Fattening Frogs For Snakes”. As we’re making our way through this piece, each week I’m...

Hello All! This week I’ve got a beautiful tune for you by the great John Hartford. Unlike most John Hartford songs that I play, this one was originally written on and for the...