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
Exploring Aeolian Changes
Recently, our ongoing modal journey has drawn us into the land
of harmony. In the previous Back Track installment (Dorian Grooves, Sept.
’00 GP), we saw how notes from the Dorian mode can be combin…
00:09:13 |
Wed 09 Sep 2009
Delta-Style Strumming
The queen of Delta blues guitar sits in and serves up a lesson on authentic country blues strumming. If you want to get next to the concepts laid down by Tommy Johnson, Charley Patton, Robert Johnson…
00:06:39 |
Wed 02 Sep 2009
12/8 Rhythm Trainer
If you can play a blues, funk, reggae, or swing-jazz shuffle, you’re familiar with 12/8 time. You may even understand the mechanics of 12/8 after all, it’s simply 4/4 time with three eighth-notes per…
00:06:02 |
Wed 26 Aug 2009
Odd-Meter Fingerpicking Patterns
From Dave Brubeck's "Take Five," to the Allman Brothers' "Whipping Post, to Zappa to Rush, odd time signatures pop up occasionally in American music. In other lands, like Turkey or Armenia, they're q…
00:07:04 |
Thu 20 Aug 2009
Hand Jive Fingerpicking Lesson, Part 1
Since the early 60's fingerpicking has been synonymous with American folk music, the steelstring flat-top guitar, and the coffeehouse scene. But you don't have to be a folkie-or even play acoustic gu…
00:09:23 |
Wed 12 Aug 2009
Thumb Fun
If you're an acoustic player, Chet is one of the godheads. In this beefy 10-part lesson, get into the legend's style of using the thumb to keep a steady bass line while letting the fingers take care …
00:06:08 |
Fri 07 Aug 2009
The Train Man
Travis picking never grows old. It sounds as hip today as on '50s Elvis sides like "Mystery Train" and "That's Alright Mama." Steve's lesson is a 24-bar blues that includes four must-know Travis lick…
00:03:03 |
Wed 29 Jul 2009
Merle's Jam
Travis picking, a thumb-and-finger style that changed the guitar world - is an essential technique. Playing country without it is like driving a pickup with three wheels. It starts with alternating b…
00:09:36 |
Wed 29 Jul 2009
Double Play - Double Stops
You can't really be bluesy without getting slurry and slide-y. That's where double-stops come in. They work great as chordal indicators, harmonized solos, turnarounds and more. In this lesson, Dave c…
00:06:43 |
Wed 29 Jul 2009
Travis Style Picking
Okay, time to head out to the country. You don't become a C&W picker without mastering Travis picking, where your thumb plays a steady rhythmic bass, while your index and middle fingers play the melo…
00:05:09 |
Wed 29 Jul 2009
Fire And Flow
From secret uses of the pentatonic scale
to bluegrass, bebop blues, free jazz, and
chord melody, Jimmy Herring—with a heaping helping
of Southern hospitality—is about to share
with you several inspir…
00:11:47 |
Wed 21 Jan 2009
Van Halen Tips For Beginners
EVH opens the article by fessin' up about how much he stole, note for note, from Eric Clapton. Here's your chance to rip off Edward. This lesson runs you through blues progression, hammer-ons, pull-o…
00:07:44 |
Fri 02 Jan 2009
Playing With Electricity
Proto-metalist Blackmore, who bridged the gap between blues-drenched rockers of the '60s and the lightning-fingered shredders of today. His band, Deep Purple, helped pioneer the heavy power chord thi…
00:06:57 |
Fri 02 Jan 2009
Beyond I-IV-V
A master of many blues styles, Duke Robillard garners particular acclaim for his jump and swing playing. When he recently performed at a San Francisco music festival, Andy Ellis seized the opportunit…
00:23:04 |
Fri 26 Dec 2008
Go Daddy Go: 12 Classic Rockabilly Licks
You can trace rockabilly back to Merle Travis. In themid ’50s, when rockabilly pioneers such as Scotty Moore, Paul Burlison, Cliff Gallup, Joe Maphis, and Carl Perkins hot-rodded the basic Travis fin…
00:09:38 |
Wed 10 Dec 2008
Wes Montgomery's Magic Box
Most guitarists recognize the E minor pentatonic scale and with good reason. After all, it is the world's most popular launching pad for rock solos and blues leads in the key of E. More advanced play…
00:02:13 |
Wed 10 Dec 2008
Diddie Wa Diddie
More than 60 years after its recording, Blind Blake’s rambunctious Diddie Wa Diddie, a double-entendre ragtime blues, still stands as a fingerpicking classic. Blake's musical vocabulary is prodigious…
00:07:56 |
Tue 11 Nov 2008
Bottleneck Breakdown
Is there anything more seductively rootsy than metallic slide musings on a glimmering National steel guitar? In this two-part lesson, Brozman, one of the foremost authorities on the instrument, takes…
00:12:43 |
Mon 20 Oct 2008
Eric Johnson's Texas Chainsaw
Eric Johnson has a deep bag but this lesson concentrates on his aggressive combinations of single-note and chords, which, he says, adds a "potent yin-yang tension". Plenty of yin and yang in this 19-…
00:06:53 |
Tue 30 Sep 2008
Andreas Oberg
Before you dig in, a quick announcement ...
We just launched a new video podcast on iTunes that we call Guitar Sherpa. We've already stoked it up with some of our favorite vids including this perfor…
00:07:02 |
Wed 24 Sep 2008
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