Sort of continuing the Miles Davis theme from my previous post, I want to discuss one specific piece of Miles from the early seventies: “Honky Tonk” (a studio recording on the album “Get Up With It”) or “Sivad” (as the…
Yearly Archives: 2014
A Different Kind Of Blue: A Video Transcription of Miles Davis’s “So What”
Miles Davis. Kind Of Blue. This is one of those seminal moments in the history of 20th century music. In jazz, this was certainly one of those before/after things. Many of the concepts popularized by Kind Of Blue were not…
Tagged with: Jazz, John Coltrane, Kind Of Blue, Miles Davis, So What, Solo Transcription
Posted in Improvisation, Jazz, Music Appreciation and Analysis
Posted in Improvisation, Jazz, Music Appreciation and Analysis
“Summertime Done, Come And Gone, My, Oh, My. . .”: Happy Labor Day
Wishing everyone a happy Labor Day weekend. Here in the United States, Labor Day is the psychological, if not actual, end of summer. This leads me to the clip below. A video of the Grateful Dead playing U.S. Blues as…
Tagged with: Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia, U.S. Blues
Posted in Classic Rock, Grateful Dead, Jam Band, Music Appreciation and Analysis
Posted in Classic Rock, Grateful Dead, Jam Band, Music Appreciation and Analysis
“Bing, Bing, Bing, Bing”: The Awesome Guitar Of Charlie Hunter
I’m just saw Charlie Hunter this past week. I’ve lost count of how many times I seen him but the number is in the double digits easy. I first heard about Charlie Hunter in a Guitar Player magazine article as…
Stick Theory: The Continuing Adventure Of The Chapman Stick Guitar & Me
My wife suggested that I move the material I have on my Chapman Stick Guitar page to a post on my Home page so it gets seen by more people. I agreed but felt this was a good opportunity to…
Tagged with: "Stormy Monday", Chapman Stick, Chapman Stick Guitar, Emmett Chapman
Posted in Chapman Stick, Music Appreciation and Analysis
Posted in Chapman Stick, Music Appreciation and Analysis
“Hey, Hey Mama”: Cover Versions Of Led Zeppelin’s “Black Dog”
I became aware of this video from the website OpenCulture.com. It’s a combination of 80 different YouTube video covers of Led Zeppelin’s “Black Dog”. I guess it shows how getting your Led Zeppelin riffs down is a rite of passage…
Tagged with: "Black Dog", Classic Rock, Dread Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin Covers, reggae
Posted in Blues, Classic Rock, Music Appreciation and Analysis
Posted in Blues, Classic Rock, Music Appreciation and Analysis
“A Friend Of The Devil Is A Friend Of Mine”: Jerry Garcia’s Birthday
Jerry Garcia would have been 72 years old today. I want to avoid going on about the usual stuff that has been written about Jerry and the Grateful Dead but I want to hit these points: No one sounds like…
Tagged with: Grateful Dead, Happy Birthday Jerry, Jerry Garcia, Merle Saunders
Posted in Grateful Dead, Jam Band, Music Appreciation and Analysis
Posted in Grateful Dead, Jam Band, Music Appreciation and Analysis
“Let Me Play The Blues For You”: A Unified Field Theory For Playing The Blues?
Not that long ago, I was giving an off the cuff lesson to a friend who asked about blues soloing. I just said to play the minor pentatonic scale. I immediately regretted saying that. It was a pat answer and…
Tagged with: Blues, Improvisation, minor pentatonic, minor pentatonic scale, pentatonic scale, scale, Soloing
Posted in Blues, Improvisation
Posted in Blues, Improvisation
“Lawdy mama, light my fuse”: Johnny Winter 1944 – 2014
Johnny Winter passed away yesterday in Switzerland at the age of 70 while on tour in Europe. Johnny was one of my first guitar heroes. When I was about 11 or 12 years old, my brother joined Columbia Record Club (anyone…
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