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- Thu Jul 17, 2025 8:57 pm
- Forum: Recommend A Lesson
- Topic: New lesson
- Replies: 2
- Views: 110
Re: New lesson
I appreciate the suggestion, but I wonder which part of this you are interested in - the chord progression to sing or perform it, the improvising Otis does as an intro, the screaming solos done by the young gunslinger virtuoso, or something else? If it is the progression I can help you out. It is a ...
- Thu Jul 17, 2025 7:32 pm
- Forum: Recommend A Lesson
- Topic: New Poco Lesson
- Replies: 1
- Views: 67
Re: New Poco Lesson
Hey, Good call! Cantamos is one of my favorite Poco albums, with Good Feeling To Know being right up there too., The opening, Sagebrush Serenade really sets the tone for the album, with other standouts being High And Dry and Whatever Happened To Your Smile. I had really forgotten about the Indian Su...
- Thu Jul 17, 2025 7:22 pm
- Forum: Questions and Answers w/ Neil
- Topic: Solo Beatles Arrangements
- Replies: 1
- Views: 431
Re: Solo Beatles Arrangements
Lynette, Thanks so much for the comment and I am sorry it has taken so long to respond. We have had a bunch of tech issues with the Forum. Not sure if you know but the second album I made (back in 1989 or so) was 21 Beatles tunes arranged for solo guitar. Frankly, there were mostly improvised in the...
- Fri Jul 11, 2025 6:54 pm
- Forum: On The Beat
- Topic: On The Beat - Episode 812 - Weekly Guitar Video News Wrap Up July 11, 2025
- Replies: 0
- Views: 664
On The Beat - Episode 812 - Weekly Guitar Video News Wrap Up July 11, 2025
https://youtu.be/NXTMdjIEu7A July 11, 2025, Recently I have been having a good time revisiting songs by Elton John, partially inspired by a couple students working on old songs of his (i.e. ones that came out when I was in high school). Today's Update started with some improvising on Love Song , wri...
- Sun Jul 06, 2025 11:30 pm
- Forum: New Lesson Releases
- Topic: More Elton John - Rocket Man
- Replies: 0
- Views: 12164
More Elton John - Rocket Man
This Elton kick of mine was triggered by a student working on a few of his tunes. There are a couple more in the queue but here is what we came up with for Rocket Man. https://youtu.be/Kdio6uFYAsE In this acoustic guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play Rocket Man by Elton John — a spacey, emotional...
- Tue Jul 01, 2025 9:07 pm
- Forum: New Lesson Releases
- Topic: Elton John - (B-B-B) Bennie And The Jets
- Replies: 0
- Views: 905
Elton John - (B-B-B) Bennie And The Jets
In 1973 Elton John released Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, which seemed groundbreaking in my high school eyes. I recently had a student working on a few of his songs and I figured I had to put together a lesson for our TG World on Bennie And The Jets. https://youtu.be/FbqvDxbBl5U In this acoustic guitar...
- Tue Jul 01, 2025 9:02 pm
- Forum: New Lesson Releases
- Topic: Promise Me by Beverly Craven
- Replies: 0
- Views: 778
Promise Me by Beverly Craven
Beverly Craven is a new artist in the TG Library, and thanks to Nesh we now have a lesson on her hit Promise Me. https://youtu.be/WwiXg298XAU Beverley Craven is a British singer-songwriter best known for her 1991 hit single 'Promise Me'. It appears on her self titled debut album, for which she wrote...
- Fri Jun 27, 2025 10:59 pm
- Forum: On The Beat
- Topic: On The Beat - Episode 811 - Weekly Guitar Video News Wrap Up June 27, 2025
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1500
On The Beat - Episode 811 - Weekly Guitar Video News Wrap Up June 27, 2025
https://youtu.be/8eW0lURXFHI June 27, 2025, Today’s Update started with some improvising in the key of D. This led me to talking about chord progressions that use secondary dominant chords, which related to the progression I started with. It was a string of sub-dominant chords. Each chord was follow...
- Fri Jun 27, 2025 4:18 pm
- Forum: Announcements and Info
- Topic: A Visit With John Keawe - Acoustic Snapshot
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1105
A Visit With John Keawe - Acoustic Snapshot
At the beginning of June 2025 the whole Hogan family spent some time together in Hawaii. We started on Oahu and reconnected with almost all Nani's relatives there, then moved to The Big Island. Slack-Key legend John Keawe was gracious enough to drop by on Saturday the 14th and spend a short time pla...
- Fri Jun 27, 2025 4:13 pm
- Forum: New Lesson Releases
- Topic: More Roy Orbison - Only The Lonely
- Replies: 1
- Views: 798
More Roy Orbison - Only The Lonely
Adding to our Roy Orbison library, we now have Only The Lonely. https://youtu.be/4cr-cp1HoRM Only The Lonely is a 1960 song by Roy Orbison and became his first major hit. The absolute key of the recording is F, and besides this key we take a look at how to play it in E, D (including Dropped D Tuning...