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Santa Clara County just moved into a 3 week shutdown, and looking at college and pro football news today, they are hanging by a thread. So back to 'shelter in place' mode, at least in practice. All Zoom lessons here but more time to play...???

Neil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBGXu1-66r8&feature=youtu.be November 27, 2020 Gordon Lightfoot, John Fahey and Al Stewart popped into my head at the start of today’s clip. Tunes referenced included Walls, Sligo River Blues and Year Of The Cat. But the focus was more along the lines of getting to wo...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hutj0VG2LV8&feature=youtu.be Breathless is a Grammy Award nominated song by Irish pop rock group The Corrs. It was released as the first single from their 3rd studio album ‘In Blue’ (2000) The lesson is based on how Jim Corr plays it on guitar. In particular how he do...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqok-99LsBE&feature=youtu.be “Under the Bridge” is a 1992 song from the fifth album by Red Hot Chili Peppers. While the song features dark lyrics that deal with subjects like drug addiction, many of the lush guitar chords provide a brighter, happier tone.  In this les...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owy38a_zVBs&feature=youtu.be In this lesson, we’ll learn a fingerstyle arrangement in standard tuning of one of the two melodies used for the Christmas tune Away In A Manger. We’ll learn how to take a simple, easy-to-read, or easy-to-memorize arrangement and enhance i...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy4L8sxvDjg&feature=youtu.be November 20, 2020 Jorma Kaukonen’s album Quah made a big impression on me when I was a teenager, and it was great to see it mentioned on the Forum this week. I did take a little stab at Genesis in today’s opening segment. Remind me of this...

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Hey Dermot,

I appreciate the vote of confidence but I am pretty sure that I could not do what Kazuhito Yamashita did.

Neil

Hot off the press... my long promised lesson on Sleigh Ride. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewwz3IWELl8&feature=youtu.be Sleigh Ride was written in the late 1940s by Leroy Anderson as a light orchestra piece. A couple years later Mitchell Parish added lyrics to it and it became an American Classic....