Monthly Archives: May 2009

If you’ve been a long-time reader of Guitar Noise, you’ll probably be aware that we’ve been long-time fans of Jamie Andreas and her Guitar Principles website. Jamie has been a strong tutorial presence on the Internet for ages and her teachings focus on posture, relaxation, muscle movement and memory and the other physical aspects of playing the [...]

Guitar Noise bids a heartfelt “welcome back” to Jamie Andreas of Guitar Prinicples (www.guitarprinciples.com). Jamie has honored us by putting together a series of video lessons of performance notes for our Guitar Noise arrangement of George Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.” She has a wonderful way of explaining the hows and whys of finger positioning and you’re in for a treat. Enjoy this first lesson and rest assured more are on the way.

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.

Bob Dylan month continues at Guitar Noise. We also have three new lessons to plug in this latest newsletter, Guitar Noise News Vol. 3 #90.

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.

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.

In this podcast we’ll work on getting the basics of the summer camp song “Puff The Magic Dragon” down, plus have a little fun with the bass line.

Guitar Noise News Vol. 3 #89 kicks off the month of May. This month we are celebrating the work of Bob Dylan and have a couple new lessons to boot.