Here is my song, Fronds in the Wind. I recorded several slightly different versions, but liked this one best. Hope you enjoy.
Recorded with a Taylor 412ce LTD (Rosewood/Spruce, with Elixir Nanoweb Phosphor Bronze HD gauge set) and a Neumann TLM 102 microphone.
All rights reserved to this song, however students may perform the song in public.
Here is a song I wrote a while back called “Magic Sands.” Hope you enjoy.
Recorded with a Taylor 412ce LTD (Rosewood/Spruce, with Elixir Nanoweb Phosphor Bronze HD gauge set) and a Neumann TLM 102 microphone.
All rights reserved to this song, however students may perform the arrangement in public.
Coffee Bean Slack Key is a simple, slack key tinged song that I wrote so that you could have fun learning to play it. 😉 It works well at a variety of tempos: beginners can play it slow and more advanced players might have fun improvising around it. To that end, I’ve recorded several versions of the song for you to check out (links below). Feel free to play along, though I didn’t use a click track or metronome so tempo varies a little. Also note, most of the example versions are just played with an A-B-A format, however you can play longer versions of the song (i.e. A-B-A-B-A). I hope you have fun with this song.
All rights reserved to the song “Coffee Bean Slack Key,” however students are allowed to perform the song in public.
SLACK 401 • Coffee Bean Slack Key – Lesson on How to Play
SLACK 402 • Coffee Bean Slack Key (Slow)
SLACK 403 • Coffee Bean Slack Key (Med-Slow)
Coffee Bean Slack Key played at a slow tempo. This song was written as a study piece, however it works as a fun, simple song in its own right.
The song can be played at a variety of tempos: beginners can play it slow and more advanced players might have fun improvising around it. To that end, I’ve recorded several other versions of the song for you to check out (links below). Feel free to play along to these recordings, though I didn’t use a click track or metronome so tempo varies a little. Also note, most of the example versions are just played with an A-B-A format, however you can play longer versions of the song (i.e. A-B-A-B-A). I hope you have fun with this song.
Please see the related lesson for this song (link below), as well as other lessons on my channel.
All rights reserved to the song “Coffee Bean Slack Key,” however students are allowed to perform the song in public.
SLACK 401 • Coffee Bean Slack Key – Lesson on How to Play
SLACK 402 • Coffee Bean Slack Key (Slow)
SLACK 403 • Coffee Bean Slack Key (Med-Slow)
Coffee Bean Slack Key played at a medium-slow tempo. This song was written as a study piece, however it works as a fun, simple song in its own right.
The song can be played at a variety of tempos: beginners can play it slow and more advanced players might have fun improvising around it. To that end, I’ve recorded several other versions of the song for you to check out (links below). Feel free to play along to these recordings, though I didn’t use a click track or metronome so tempo varies a little. Also note, most of the example versions are just played with an A-B-A format, however you can play longer versions of the song (i.e. A-B-A-B-A). I hope you have fun with this song.
Please see the related lesson for this song (link below), as well as other lessons on my channel.
All rights reserved to the song “Coffee Bean Slack Key,” however students are allowed to perform the song in public.
SLACK 401 • Coffee Bean Slack Key – Lesson on How to Play
SLACK 402 • Coffee Bean Slack Key (Slow)
SLACK 403 • Coffee Bean Slack Key (Med-Slow)
Coffee Bean Slack Key played at a medium-fast tempo. This song was written as a study piece, however it works as a fun, simple song in its own right.
The song can be played at a variety of tempos: beginners can play it slow and more advanced players might have fun improvising around it. To that end, I’ve recorded several other versions of the song for you to check out (links below). Feel free to play along to these recordings, though I didn’t use a click track or metronome so tempo varies a little. Also note, most of the example versions are just played with an A-B-A format, however you can play longer versions of the song (i.e. A-B-A-B-A). I hope you have fun with this song.
Please see the related lesson for this song (link below), as well as other lessons on my channel.
All rights reserved to the song “Coffee Bean Slack Key,” however students are allowed to perform the song in public.
SLACK 401 • Coffee Bean Slack Key – Lesson on How to Play
SLACK 402 • Coffee Bean Slack Key (Slow)
SLACK 403 • Coffee Bean Slack Key (Med-Slow)
Coffee Bean Slack Key played at a fast tempo, with some improvisation. This song was written as a study piece, however it works as a fun, simple song in its own right.
The song can be played at a variety of tempos: beginners can play it slow and more advanced players might have fun improvising around it. To that end, I’ve recorded several other versions of the song for you to check out (links below). Feel free to play along to these recordings, though I didn’t use a click track or metronome so tempo varies a little. Also note, most of the example versions are just played with an A-B-A format, however you can play longer versions of the song (i.e. A-B-A-B-A). I hope you have fun with this song.
Please see the related lesson for this song (link below), as well as other lessons on my channel.
All rights reserved to the song “Coffee Bean Slack Key,” however students are allowed to perform the song in public.
SLACK 401 • Coffee Bean Slack Key – Lesson on How to Play
SLACK 402 • Coffee Bean Slack Key (Slow)
SLACK 403 • Coffee Bean Slack Key (Med-Slow)
This lesson shows you how to tune your guitar to Open G tuning, which from low to high (in pitch) is D-G-D-G-B-D. When playing a G chord using the open strings (or the related ‘one finger’ bar chords), you generally want to leave the 6th string out of the voicing as it sounds muddy. Keith Richards went so far as to take the 6th string off his guitar when playing in Open G, though when playing slack key or fingerstyle you will use the 6th string (i.e. for a D or D7 chord) and thus want to keep it on the guitar. Open G is often called “Taro Patch” tuning by slack key guitar players, and most slack key songs – especially traditional ones – are in Taro Patch or a close variant.
Here is a fingerstyle guitar arrangement of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer I came up with for the holidays. It’s slack key tinged and was fun to play.
Happy St. Nicholas Day (December 6th) and Merry Christmas!
All rights reserved to this arrangement, however students may perform the arrangement in public.
Intro to Sixth Shapes – this lesson explores Major and minor 6th shapes on the first and third strings in Open G tuning. These shapes are important building blocks for playing slack key (and other styles of guitar) in Open G. Sometimes referred to as simply “open” and “closed” shapes, they are used both to harmonize melody lines and outline chords.