“While My Guitar Gently Weeps” - Performance Notes for the Verses

Jamie Andreas guides you through the verses of While My Guitar Gently Weeps with very clear and detailed step-by-step video lesson.

Lay Lady Lay - Bob Dylan - Easy Songs for Beginners #40

Our arrangement of this Bob Dylan favorite from Nashville Skyline can be played very easily with the use of a capo, plus a very simple picking pattern.

“While My Guitar Gently Weeps” - Performance Notes

Jamie Andreas has honored us by putting together a video lesson of performance notes for our Guitar Noise arrangement of While My Guitar Gently Weeps.

Buckets Of Rain - Bob Dylan - Songs for Intermediates #27

Here is a rather faithful arrangement of the closing song from Bob Dylan's immortal album, Blood on the Tracks. Excellent practice for finger picking technique.

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Theory Without Tears

This is the original lesson that started all the ballyhoo about music theory not even being difficult. David Hodge would have you believe that music theory for guitar is actually both simple and fun. If you've ever wanted to learn more theory but didn't know where to start, this is the music theory primer you need to read.

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Taking Care of Choices - Turning Scales into Solos - Part 8

In our latest lesson in this series, we look at a basic rock progression and examine the choices we can make in terms of scales for soloing. Plus we get a look at the Mixolydian mode as well as discovering a new use for the Dorian.

Dusty Roads Two Step - A Fingerstyle Song by Peter Simms

Peter Simms has written a little ditty that shows us how to make your single guitar sound like a small combo band. We’re going to focus on fingerstyle with a melody, bassline and chords.

While My Guitar Gently Weeps - A Finger Style / Chord Melody Arrangement

Here’s a song arrangement that no one has to sing! Take aspects of “chord melody” arranging and mix them in with fingerstyle playing and you’ve got yourself a version of one of George Harrison’s terrific songs to perform. It’s not all that hard to learn and you can easily adapt it with your own embellishments and style.

Nashville - Music City, USA - Our Musical World

I’m pleased to introduce a new series here at Guitar Noise, spotlighting the many, many musical Meccas in this wonderful world of ours. First stop - Nashville, Tennessee. And if you’re thinking, “That’s only country music,” you’ll soon realize that there’s a whole lot more going on!

Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd - Easy Songs for Beginners #39

If you’re going to play an emotionally charged song, you can’t hide behind a single strumming pattern. In this lesson we take one of the highlight songs from Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” and arrange it for a single guitar, using many strumming and crosspicking techniques we’ve gone over in our Guitar Noise Podcast series. You’re going to have a lot of fun with this one!

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