11/01/2025

At one stage I was listening to a lot of Jerry Reed, a Clive Carroll piece I cannot remember the title of, and some footage of Doyle Dykes playing some blues in a bar somewhere…so I tried to take the…

This came about from me trying to compose something in the style of Jerry Reed. The whole piece goes for about 3 minutes and moves through several sections, but the camera on my phone started playing up as I recorded…

One of the 8 squillion attempts I have made to compose the ultimate romantic piece that will change the world 🤣🤣🤣.Never really had a title.Most of my pieces start out by being labelled as “Love Theme from Godzilla Rides the…

Another tuning achieved with the Spider capo. The capo is placed at the 9th fret and the 2nd and 4rd strings are capped, whilst the others remain open. As the Spider capo allows me to use a combination of open…

Open and altered tunings can be a great way to expand into new territory as a guitarist, but that is not the only way. Effects, tonal variations, string types, capos (full, partial, and the Spider capo) can all be used …

Here are some quick tips for playing a piece such as “Wonderful Land” by The Shadows.Martin Cilia is the premier surf guitarist in Australia today, and his playing is all about the melody of the song.I asked Martin for a…

When I first started learning to improvise, an older kid in the neighbourhood showed me the A Minor Pentatonic Scale Box Shape 1 and assured me that would be all I need to play the blues! As a 12-year-old, that…

Here’s a great song for beginning players to get some fingerstyle and chordal playing down, and for more advanced players to add a very popular song to their repertoire. Download the pdf file for the song notes.

A partial capo holds down some strings while leaving others untouched, allowing for new tunings, textures, and melodic and harmonic possibilities that would be challenging to impossible without the partial capo. We can use a regular capo and simply position…