TrueFire's Guitabulary
Jonesing for a bigger bag of chops? Don't touch that dial ... tune in here for an eclectic series of TrueFire audio guitar lessons, with tab and notation, ranging across all styles, techniques and levels. WARNING! Podcasts may lead to excessive practice and grossly enlarged chops.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 6 minutes
- Episodes
- 99
- Years Active
- 2005 - 2010
Expanding Open Tunings
Description: Accompanying his wife on a recent song, Celtic bluesman Martin Simpson needed to find the appropriate tuning. He ended up with the exotic B-Flat-sus2 (B-Flat, F, B-Flat, F, B-Flat, C). H…
00:04:42 |
Wed 10 Feb 2010
Sneaky Fingering Secrets
To play alternating bass lines, you need to commit certain fingers to sustaining bass notes, while leaving other fingers free to fret melody notes. This typically involves unorthodox fingerings. This…
00:05:50 |
Wed 03 Feb 2010
Riley Puckett's 'John Henry'
How'd you like to learn a song that paved the way for blues and country slide playing? In an earlier lesson, John looked at Josh White's version of "John Henry," which relied on finger slides. Pucket…
00:01:14 |
Wed 27 Jan 2010
Parlor Guitar & Country Blues
The blues can be traced to many things - slave chants, chain gangs and such - but you don't hear much about the influence of late 19th Century parlor guitar. John establishes the connection with 'Cou…
00:01:18 |
Wed 20 Jan 2010
Funky Butt, Dancing Fingers
Bill has adapted a bottleneck muting technique to standard playing. It'll enhance your fingerpicking articulation and dynamics and help get rid of unwanted notes. Essentially, each of the top four st…
00:04:59 |
Wed 13 Jan 2010
Safe Slide
Bob Brozman is master of bottleneck slide guitar and various open tunings for the blues. Here's a primer for all of us that are ready to incorporate slide technique into our repertoire. Tunings, tone…
00:08:35 |
Wed 06 Jan 2010
Bottleneck Secrets
Like all great blues players, John Mooney derives mojo from his fingers, not his gear. Mooney can fill a hall with soulful slide sounds, whether he’s fronting a band with a Strat cranked through a Su…
00:06:50 |
Wed 30 Dec 2009
Chris Whitley's Twisted Blues
Chris Whitley is a heck of a blues player, but he isn't what you would call a traditionalist. Jeff McErlain shows you one of Chris' more "twisted" blues pieces, played on open-tuned Dobro. Chris desc…
00:07:02 |
Wed 23 Dec 2009
Chromatic Fingerstyle
Customizing turnarounds is what makes them your own, and you can never have enough nifty ones. In this lesson, Mark issues a couple of "must know" variations on a classic blues move. Transpose 'em to…
00:03:40 |
Wed 16 Dec 2009
Laptop Guitar: One Tuning, Many Keys
Enter the brave and bluesy world of laptop slide guitar. David sticks to high G tuning (GBDGBD, low to high), which allows him to play in the guitar-friendly keys of E, A, and D. Here he issues six l…
00:07:03 |
Wed 02 Dec 2009
Decoding Open D
In this two-part lesson, we'll explore open D and acquaint ourselves with it fascinating sounds. So grab a tuner and a guitar , put yourself in an open frame of mind , and get ready for some sonic st…
00:07:55 |
Wed 25 Nov 2009
The Queen Mother Bluegrass Lick
So you thought bluegrass was hokum for hicks. Try this tricky staple, known as the (Lester) Flatt run or G-run. Rogers also extends it up an octave to make a longer lick, partially inverts it and thr…
00:04:25 |
Wed 18 Nov 2009
Power Picking
In this lesson, we’ll take the primary 8-bar themes from several Celtic fiddle tunes, arrange them for guitar, and use the results to polish our flatpicking chops, timing, and tone. The themes have b…
00:01:51 |
Wed 04 Nov 2009
Flop-Eared Guitar
Let's say your relatively new to flatpicking guitar, but you wanna get musical, wanna start learning some relatively simple songs. Given a choice, do you want to work on a tune that's corny or hip? D…
00:02:51 |
Wed 28 Oct 2009
Flatpickers Rhythm Basics
Step up and learn one of the most powerful, least-used and exotic accompaniment licks known to guitarists. This basic bass/strum/bass/strum move is so fundamental to good accompaniment that a lot of …
00:04:55 |
Wed 21 Oct 2009
Elementary Watson
Here's an intro to Doc's style, which involves
explosive flatpicking-speed with taste-on acoustic guitar. Whether
folk standards or reworked fiddle tunes, Watson's sound is always
exhilarating, al…
00:08:09 |
Wed 14 Oct 2009
Attitude Adjustment
Dan serves up two beautiful traditional guitar tunes that you can play slow and steady: "Soldier's Joy" and "Wildwood Flower," which has been the starting point for generations of flat-pickers. The t…
00:06:11 |
Wed 07 Oct 2009
6+6+4=bluegrass
OK, so what's with the math? Dobro master David Hamburger breaks it all down for you in this Bluegrass-flavored lesson. Two six note phrases plus a four note phrase equals a two bar lick...got it? Th…
00:06:42 |
Wed 30 Sep 2009
Ringing Acoustic
If a Nashville studio ace - a guy who's played on albums by Garth Brooks, Randy Travis, the Judds and others - gave you inside tip on how to play effective session acoustic guitar, would you listen? …
00:05:41 |
Wed 23 Sep 2009
Finding Your Voice
Here, Dan encourages you to break free of other guitarist's arrangements and approach a song with originality in mind. He submits a handful of different arrangements of "Sally Goodin'" to get you sta…
00:05:40 |
Wed 16 Sep 2009
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