Monthly Archives: August 2009

We’ve gotten a lot of questions about how to turn a song into a single guitar arrangement and the first part of the answer is that you have to learn the song! In this lesson we break down this White Stripes’ song into its component parts – bass, rhythm and lead (learning them on the electric guitar) – so that we can later create a single acoustic guitar arrangement of this song.

This time out, Jamie guides you through the bridge section of While My Guitar Gently Weeps, providing detailed step-by-step instruction on how to move effortlessly from one fingering position to the next.

In the final installment of her video lessons on the Guitar Noise arrangement of George Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” guitar teacher extraordinaire Jamie Andreas takes you step by step through the bridge section of the song with very clear and detailed instruction. I learned quite a bit from Jamie’s videos and I hope you do, too!

Back in August 2003, I was still in Chicago but I got my first look at where I would end up moving to the coming New Year’s Day. Looking back now, I’m tempted to say that some of the unsettledness had a subliminal effect in my choosing Cat’s Steven’s “Wild World” as a new Easy Songs for Beginners lesson.

Welcome to the August 15 issue of Guitar Noise News. Our big news this time out is the announcement of the 2009 FODfest tour. We also mark the passing of Les Paul, who passed away earlier this week at the age of 94.

Setting the “Wayback Machine” for 2006 led me to Josh Urban’s first piece for Guitar Noise and since ear training and listening is a huge part of learning to solo, it seemed to make sense to use it as a feature. Plus, any lesson from Doug Sparling, be it new or old, is certainly worth a read!

Welcome to August and what is hopefully the August 1 issue of Guitar Noise News. We have some exciting book news, a bio on Bob Marley and a new topic of the month. Also in the newsletter is a new essay from Nick Torres from our Playing Well With Others series.

In the near thirty years since his death, Bob Marley’s popularity hasn’t waned. His greatest hits album, Legend, has sold over twenty million copies, making him reggae music’s most recognizable and possibly best-loved ambassador.