>>New Lessons Package - The Everly Brothers

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Hi Everyone,

We have a brand new Everly Bothers 5-pack of lessons!

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This new Everyly Brothers lessons package includes 5 lessons valued at over $67.95

Right now we are offering lifetime access to these lessons for a limited time at $37.95

This video lesson series is expertly taught by Neil Hogan The Everly Brothers brought a new approach for singing harmony to a developing
genre, soon christened "Rock And Roll." Their sound went on to inspire and influence The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, and by extension
anybody who followed those footsteps using vocal harmony.

Don and Phil Everly, just two years apart in age, had a sound only genetic blending could really produce. Their career started with a song
the publishers couldn't get anybody to take, but opened the door to these pioneers of modern vocal harmony. This pack of songs looks
at some of their earliest hits.

In 1957 Don (20 years old) and Phil (18) had their first hit with Bye Bye Love, a song written by Felice and Boudleaux Bryant that had been
turned down by 30 acts at that point. The chord progressions and accompaniments now seem pretty standard and relatively easy but here
is where it all began. This lesson covers that and also looks at creating a second guitar part.

Lessons on the Everly Brothers vocal techniques can be found at our sister site, TotallyVocals.com.

Wake Up Little Susie is another hit from the start of The Everly Brothers' career. Most of their songs featured the close
harmony vocals with Don singing the lower parts and Phil singing higher, usually up a third. They really introduced this style of harmony to
the world of emerging world of Rock 'n' Roll in the late 1950s. Wake Up Little Susie is a bit more complicated than many songs from the time,
having different parts leaning towards different keys, and lines from one section also appearing in another, sometimes over different progressions.
The intro includes syncopated chord changes, quickly moving from F to G and back, which occur later with different rhythms. You don't even
really need barre chords to play this song.

All I Have To Do Is Dream was another early hit for Phil and Don Everly. Also from the songwriting team of Felice and
Boudleaux Bryant, the original recording featured Chet Atkins on electric guitar. The song uses a common 1950s progression and a standard AABA form.
The lesson covers the progression and arrangement, and addresses transposing it to different keys as well as how to play a second guitar part, much
like Chet's. was another early hit for Phil and Don Everly. Also from the songwriting team of Felice and Boudleaux Bryant, the original recording
featured Chet Atkins on electric guitar. The song uses a common 1950s progression and a standard AABA form. The lesson covers the progression and
arrangement, and addresses transposing it to different keys as well as how to play a second guitar part, much like Chet's.

Originally written in French a few years before coming into the hands of The Everly Brothers, Let It Be Me went on to become one of the most recorded
and performed songs of all time. Don and Phil originally did the song in the key of G and later performed it in F. This lesson covers both keys and also
goes into random arpeggios as an accompaniment technique.

One of the few self-penned hits by The Everly Brothers, Cathy's Clown is a good example of a catchy song that uses just a few easy chords, simple
progressions, and basic strumming techniques that is pretty playable by beginning guitar students. The lesson dresses it up a bit with barre chord
possibilities and left hand muting techniques, but Cathy's Clown can really be done with four open chords that mostly change back and forth two at a time.